Wednesday's Town Series dual modified giant slalom on Baldy's Cozy ski run was the first of two combined two-run events for the 2011 season—and Nate Schwing best mastered the two-run GS challenge.
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Intermountain Division J1/J2 head coach Schwing (53.21 seconds) led 111 skiers through the gates and won by .45 seconds over Carl Rixon Jr. (53.66). Schwing was the only racer beating 27 seconds in the first run.
Left standing as the only one of 31 teams with a perfect 0.00 score through four weeks of racing was the Scums of the Pioneers foursome with Cameron Fraser, Chase Gouley, Jason Haase and John Christensen.
Casino Dancing Bears (0.27) challenged the leaders featuring its stalwarts Neil Jessen, Kevin Doyle, Paige Griffith and Franny Hjort.
CBG/Flat Out Ridiculous (3.00) had its second straight 0.00 race and pulled into fourth place, fea-turing Jan Hegewald, Mike Gowe, Meg Vorm and Eric Vorm. Moving up into sixth with a 0.81 race were the Sofa Kings with Barrett Molter, Lenny Joseph, Ted Tuma and Bob Buchanan.
Top racers: 1—Nate Schwing (SVSEF) 53.21. 2—Carl Rixon Jr. (Tekasoreasses) 53.66. 3—Matt Murphy (Tekasoreasses) 54.91. 4—John Campbell (Team Ski Tek) 55.77. 5—John Lee (Glow Power) 55.88.
6—Cameron Fraser (Scums) 56.34. 7—Bill Campbell (Probably Chicked) 56.91. 8—Brett Jacobson (Pulling Out) 57.20. 9—Ashley Brown (SVSEF) 57.65. 10—Jim Grossman (Probably Chicked) 57.91.
Clocking the 71.32-second rabbit time was Julie Youngblood of CBG/Edgie Wedgies.
The series resumes March 2 on Baldy, with the party at Whiskey's.
