The Warm Springs side of Baldy was energized Saturday and Sunday by 275 pre-teen kids from Idaho, Utah and Wyoming who competed in the Monroe Cup and Lonnie Basolo Memorial technical races.
Some 92 Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation and Hailey Ski Team racers between ages of 7 and 13 comprised a big percentage, 34%, of the field of kids in the Intermountain Division North/South Series slalom and giant slalom races.
Utah racers claimed most of the top spots in J4 races (ages 11-12) and J5/J6 events (7-10) Saturday in the SVSEF's Monroe Cup. Older kids ran 47 to 50 gates on Hemingway while the younger kids tried a 32-gate slalom course on Cozy.
But local kids earned their share of spots on the top-three podiums including Eli Conrad, K.J. Savaria, Josie Allison, Samantha Busby, Gardner Cord, Morgan Jones, Sawyer Hall and Abby Norton. In Sunday's Basolo Memorial, Hailey's Marlow Mizer finished a strong second place overall.
Only partial results were available from the Hailey Ski Team for Sunday's Basolo Memorial, but Express photographer Willy Cook was there at the awards ceremony and many of the skiers will be pictured in next week's Local Life.
Here are Monroe two-run SL results and class placings from Saturday's slalom, plus partial Basolo results for J3/J4 girls and J5/J6 men:
J3 girls (ages 13-14): 1—Morgan Jones (1-GS); Amelia Fugate (2-GS).
J3 boys: 1—Gardner Cord.
J4 girls (ages 11-12): 4—Marlow Mizer (2-GS). 7—Jordan Fitzgerald. 18—Ellie Punnett. 20—Hannah Dies (13-GS). 26—Natalie Bunting (19-GS). 28—Gina Rickling (30-GS). 32—Katie Feldman (38-GS). 35—Whitney Engelmann (37-GS). 36—Lena Perenchio (36-GS). DNF—Spencer Thomas (16-GS), Marcia Smith and Sofia DeWolfe (29-GS). DSQ—Telar McClure (10-GS).
J4 boys: 3—K.J. Savaria. 5—Ben Kanellitsas. 7—Cole Caulkins. 11—Michael Weaver. 13—Adam Brown. 22—Tanner Josey. 30—Finn Isaacson. 42—William Harder. 46—Lane Coulthard. 47—River Curtis. 54—Logan Shipley. 59—Joseph Begovich. DNF—Taylor Adler, Reed Matthews, Gray David, Kipling Weisel, Rocket Stickney and Gus Conrad. DSQ—George Kanellitsas.
J5 girls (ages 9-10): 2—Josie Allison. 3—Samantha Busby. 4—Haley Cutler. 8—Alexandra Black. 10—Megan Murphy. 12—Julia Vorsteveld. 14—Madison Milgard. 16—Olivia Weisel. 18—Lilly Jenner. 19—Margot Griffith. 21—Olivia Wentzell. 22—Moyo Tian. 23—Lauren Cord. 30—Loni Unser. 31—Marie Hoopes. 36—Royce Rheinschild. 38—Poppy Vorse. 40—Sophia Kanellitsas. DNF—Samantha Bunting.
J5 boys: 3—Eli Conrad (9-GS). 6—Will Long (17-GS). 7—Taylor Cooper (20-GS). 8—Emmett Say (15-GS). 10—Yuri McClure (10-GS). 11—Griffin Curtis (16-GS). 14—Jack Rizzo (24-GS). 16—Michael Levy (22-GS). 17—Jay Fitzgerald (13-GS). 20—Kristian DeWolfe (27-GS). 21—Carter Miller. 22—Thomas Gillespie (36-GS). 24—Trenton Gerew (41-GS). 26—Samuel Brown (33-GS). 27—Will Snyder (30-GS). 28—George Everitt (23-GS). 29—Jackson Caputo. 30—Gavin Shipley (8-GS). 33—Sean Flaherty. 35—Lukas DeWolfe (44-GS). 36—Braden Flaherty (43-GS). 40—Henry Everitt (42-GS). 41—Clay Cutler. 42—Dane Flaherty (49-GS). 43—Brody Buchwalter. DNF—Kyle Maxwell (19-GS) and Hayden Cowden (38-GS). DSQ—Austin Savaria (6-GS) and Oskar Lind; also Anders Fortuin (45-GS).
J6 girls (ages 7-8): 2—Abby Norton. 4—Katelyn Rathfon. 5—Molly Milgard. 7—Savannah Hall. DSQ—Sage Rheinschild.
J6 boys: 3—Sawyer Hall (5-GS). 5—Caleb Morgan (8-GS). 6—Matteo Jorgenson (9-GS). 7—Cooper Dart (7-GS). Also, Keene Morowitz (6-GS).
Hailey Ski Team racer Marlow Mizer proudly shows the J4 (ages 11-12) trophy she won for placing second overall at Sunday?s Lonnie Basolo Memorial giant slalom on Baldy. She was a fine example of the fine young man who inspired the race. Basolo was a 1984 Wood River High School graduate and Hailey Ski Team racer who died March 19, 1986 in a ski accident at the bottom of Baldy?s Flying Squirrel run. He was 19. The race in his memory was first held in 1988 at Dollar Mountain. Lonnie?s father Jack Basolo and brother Terry Basolo helped distributed the trophies Sunday at Warm Springs. Photo by Willy Cook
