Idaho Mountain Express: Merrick quickest on Soldier downhill

Friday, February 17, 2012

Merrick quickest on Soldier downhill

Sammis/Camas and more

Skip Merrick captured his seventh Sammis/Camas Cup downhill title Tuesday during a two-day series of Intermountain Cup downhills on Salmon River Buckaroo run at Fairfield's Soldier Mountain.

Merrick, the 1990 U.S. National downhill king, clocked a time of 1:27.75 in the 15th annual event named for Brett Sammis, who died at 31 following a ski accident on Baldy in Feb. 1997. Sammis was an avid skier, athlete and outdoorsman whose character and personality attracted legions of friends.

Others: 2—Luke Keenan 1:28.75. 3—Soren Ireland 1:29.59. 4—Alan Rickers 1:33.56. 5—Deeder Petersen 1:33.71. 6—Robert Cravens 1:33.75. 7—Baird Gourlay 1:34.28. 8—Brad Chilton 1:34.45. 9—Hank Minor 1:34.82. 10—Dave Komish and Scott Levy 1:34.88. 12—Clay Sammis 1:37.53.

13—Charlotte Gourlay (first female) 1:38.24. 14—Caleb Baukol 1:39.60. 15—R. Miram Cravens 1:41.03. 16—John McGuire 1:45.46. 17—Chris Key 1:46.67. 18—Woody Schwarzbach 1:48.75. 19—Sue Conner 1:49.46. 20—Isaac Mozen 1:52.72. 21—Kas Sosnkowski 1:57.99. 22—Rob Webb 1:58.89.

Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation racers Connor Farrow and Samantha Busby won events during the Soldier Mountain Downhills Tuesday and Wednesday. They were a part of the Intermountain Division junior series, designed for A, J1/J2/J3 classes (ages 13-20).

There were 37 juniors in the two-day, three-race series, of which 21 came from the SVSEF. In addition, there were local J4 and J5 racers in the field.

Here are their DH placings by race and class:

J1 boys: Connor Farrow 1-2-2.

J2 boys: Tanner Josey 1-2-2; Taylor Adler 2; Logan Shipley 3-3-3; and William Harder 5-1-1.

J3 boys: Jay Fitzgerald 1; Griffin Curtis 2-2-2; Will Snyder 3; Austin Savaria 4-3-DNF; Yuri McClure 5; Emmett Say 7-5-4; John Blackburn 8; Michael Levy 9-6-6; Wyatt Smith 12-9-8; Travis Flynt 14; Taylor Cooper DNF; and Trenor Gould DNF.

J3 girls: Samantha Busby 1-1-1; Haley Cutler 2-2-2; Madison Milgard 3-4-3; and Isabella Welsh 8-8-10.

J4 boys: Noah Leininger 2-2-2; Erik Eisen 3-5-3; Ethan Daves 4; Mac Mizer 5-3-4; Cooper Dart 6-4-5; Charlie Stumph 7; and Jake Blackburn 8.

J4 girls: Sage Rheinschild 1-1-1; Pilar Pennell 2; Molly Milgard 3-3-2; Libby Kaiser 4-5-5; Alyssa Ritzel 5-4-4; and Libby Lindstrom 6-6-6.

J5 boys: Wyatt Minor 1; and Bennett Snyder 3.

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