COLBY CARNIVAL

This past weekend kicked off the 2014 carnival season! We left Williamstown early Thursday morning and drove through a mostly snowless New England to arrive in Waterville in time for a short ski. Despite the 5+ inches of rain that they received the trails survived well enough and we were able to get in a good racing weekend on a 2.5K loop.
Friday's first race was the women's 5K classic. Hannah Cole, Hannah Benson and Elena led the charge for the Eph women. Here are the results:

http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results14/cbc2014-3.pdf

Hannah Cole - 17
Hannah Benson - 28
Elena - 33
Olivia - 41
Laura - 54
Jenna - 55
Eliza - 64
Tsaina - 65
Sarah - 72

The men's 10K started next. Eli Hoenig, Vanya Rybkin and Will Wicherski rounded out our top three skiers, followed very closely by Kalle Jahn, Jordan Fields and Hans Halvorsen. Results can be found here:

http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results14/cbc2014-4.pdf

Eli - 11
Vanya - 23
Will - 24
Kalle - 29
Jordan - 30
Hans - 31
Ben - 81

Someone will have to check me on this, but as far as I can tell Williams put their 6th skier higher than any other team in the race in the men's field. Great depth this year! Both teams finished in 6th place overall.

Here are a few pictures courtesy of Emily Benson (Hannah's mom):

Hannah B.

Tsaina

Elena

Eliza

Laura

Josh near tent. Check out the
WAXING TRUCK in the background:)

Laura, Hannah, Hannah and Peter Benson

Eli on his way to an 11th place finish!

Jordan

Will cresting the hill

Temps dropped below freezing on Friday night making for some fast skiing for the 10/15K freestyle races on Saturday. Some of the downhills turned into icy "bobsled" runs, but considering the weather leading up to the race the conditions were decent overall.

The women went first and put together some solid performances. Hannah Benson led the women's team. Hannah Cole put together great laps on laps 2, 3 and 4 after losing almost a minute on lap 1 when losing here pole. A sign of good things to come! Olivia rounded out our scoring team in 31st place. Elena started well, but was pulled from the race after a bad crash. Luckily, she is okay and ready to go for next weekend!

Here are the results:

http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results14/cbc2014-7.pdf

Hannah B. - 24
Hannah C. - 28
Olivia - 31
Sarah - 54
Tsaina - 60
Laura - 67
Eliza - 72
Jenna - 75

The men once again raced well with Eli in 10th, Will 19th and Jordan 21st. Here are the results:

http://www.barttiming.com/eisa/Results14/cbc2014-8.pdf

Eli - 10
Will - 19
Jordan - 21
Kalle - 25
Vanya - 31
Hans - 41
Ben - 79

The women finished in 7th and the men in 5th for the day.

Here are some pictures from the freestyle race courtesy of Peter Hoenig. Thank you Peter!

Jason and Bud putting the new truck through the paces

Hannah Cole

Hannah Benson

Sarah

Tsaina

Olivia

Elena

Eliza

Jenna

Laura

Kalle

Eli

Jordan

Will

Hans

Ben

Vanya

Sarah and Jenna...all smiles.

All in all it was a successful first weekend leaving the team hungry for improved results this coming weekend. The races will be a 5/10K Classic on Friday and 15/20K Mass start Freestyle on Saturday held in Jackson, NH. Keep an eye on the blog this weekend for the next round of results!