Sarah Tory led the sprint start for the women's A team and kept up front with the leaders until breaking a pole midway through the first lap. She found another pole and skiied back into 5th place by the tag to teammate Maddy Wendt. Both Maddy and third-leg Kirsten Johnson fought hard to maintain a 6th place finish.
The men's A team was put into position by a sprint start from Mark Johnson. Mojo kept up with the top pack through one lap, and when the Dartmouth A team split off the front he settled into the chase pack of UVM, UNH, Bates, and Colby. Keith Kantack had a blazing leg and left most of those teams in the dust by following on the heel plates of UVM's Franz Bernstein for a lap and a half. Finish leg Dimitri Luthi was handed a third place seat and he made sure that Williams kept that place, sprinting for the finish with a sizeable lead over 4th.
Williams fielded two full women's teams and three full men's teams. The coaches were totally psyched that so many - all?! - of the team members had great races, great split times on their legs, and skiied Really Freaking Hard.
Third Place!!: Mark, Dimitri, Keith
Sarah Tory just behind #1 in the Mass start
Christina Knapp hands off to Kristen Halvorsen
maddy
Mark leads off in the mass start
Keith, Isaac on second leg
Dimitri
Ian Nesbitt
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