NCAA: Dartmouth stays red-hot, wins home carnival

The Dartmouth Ski Team made if four in a row Saturday, winning its home carnival and improving to 4-0 overall on the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association season.

HANOVER, New Hampshire — The Dartmouth Ski Team made if four in a row Saturday, winning its home carnival and improving to 4-0 overall on the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association season.
    The Big Green expanded their Friday lead to win the carnival with 756 points; the University of Vermont placed second with 728 points and Middlebury College was third with 670 points.
    Back at Stowe, Vermont, for the cross-country relays, the Dartmouth trio of Ben True, Glenn Randall and Mike Sinott thundered away from the pack to win the 3×10-kilometer freestyle relay in 1:18.49, 2 1/2 minutes ahead of second-place Vermont and three minutes better than third-place St. Lawrence.
    It wasn't quite so easy for Big Green women, though. In the 3×5-kilometer freestyle relay, Middlebury led after two legs, but Dartmouth's Hannah Dreissigacker took over from teammates Susan Dunklee and Sara Studebaker and closed the gap then won by nearly seven seconds, in 46:24.0. Middlebury followed in second, followed by Vermont.
    This was the third straight year that the cross-country portion of the Dartmouth Carnival was relocated, but Studebaker found the team to be unaffected by the change of venue. "Getting out of Hanover has made us a little more relaxed," said Studebaker. "We've all worked really hard, and it's exciting to be finishing this well."
    At the Dartmouth Skiway, Vermont's Kara Crow and Greg Hardy won the men's and women's slaloms. Crow came from third place after the first run and leapfrogged Dartmouth's Lindsay Mann and New Hampshire's Veronique Archambault-Leger to win with a combined time of 1:45.48.  Mann took second place in 1:45.82 — her best career finish — and Williams's Jenna Durham placed third.
    On the men's side, Hardy overtook first-run leader David Chodounsky of Dartmouth to win in 1:35.54.  Chodounsky, who won Friday's slalom, was six-hundredths behind Hardy; Vermont's Zachary Brown was third.
    The EISA carnival circuit moves to Williamstown, Massachusetts, next weekend for the Williams College Carnival.
    For complete race results, go to the EISA Web site.