Friday, February 26, 2010

Albright paces valley racers in Payette Marathon

Leugers wins women’s event at McCall

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Ketchum's Whitney Albright placed seventh overall of 117 finishers in Saturday's 33-kilometer freestyle race of the 29th annual Payette Lakes Ski Marathon near McCall.

His time was 1.30:32, about seven minutes behind winner Kurt Wolf of McCall (1.23:21).

Adrienne Leugers of Hailey was the women's winner, in 14th place overall, on the 20.5-mile course from Little Ski Hill to Blackhawk. Her time was 1.37:34, 19 seconds ahead of runner-up Liv Jensen, Hailey.

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Albright and Leugers were two of 18 Wood River Valley racers who dominated age classes. There were seven age class champions from the Wood River Valley in a 33k race that featured mostly Nordic skiers from McCall and Boise.

Local results:

33k freestyle, men: 1—Kurt Wolf, McCall 1.23:21. 7—Whitney Albright 1.30:32 (2nd class). 11—Kris Thoreson 1.34:41 (1st). 13—Rich Knoebel 1.37:16 (1st). 14—Brett Hanson 1.37:54 (4th). 20—Andy Andrews 1.40:55 (1st). 21—Jon Holmquist 1.40:58 (2nd). 30—Drew Chilson 1.47:00 (3rd). 43—Tullio Celano 1.53:03 (2nd). 52—Ed Miller 2.03:30 (4th).

33k freestyle, women: 1—Adrienne Leugers 1.37:34 (1st). 2—Liv Jensen 1.37:53 (1st). 9—Katherine Sheldon 1.51:16 (3rd). 10—Susan Thoreson 1.53:57 (1st). 14—Liz Mitchell 1.57:21 (4th). 15—Leigh Morse 1.58:32 (2nd). 31—Marilyn Celano 2.12:04 (1st).

33k classic: 1—Eric Jensen, Boise 1.47:18. 4—Mike Stevens 2.06:57 (3rd). 18—Shanon Maley 4.00:06 (1st)—19 finishers.