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Saturday, February 28
Anchorage, Alaska (Kincaid Park)
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Utah Skiing Finishes Second at RMISA Championships
2/28/2015 12:00 AM | Skiing
Feb. 28, 2015
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Veronika Mayerhofer in classical and Endre Bjertness in slalom finished on the podium to lead the Utah ski team as the Utes finished second at the RMISA Championships/NCAA West Regional on Saturday afternoon.
Mayerhofer picked up her eighth podium finish of the year and seventh finish in the top two in the women's classical race. Josefin Nilsson tied her career-best finish with a fifth-place run. Sloan Storey and Anna-Lena Heynen finished seventh and ninth, respectively, to make Utah the top scoring team in the race. Natalia Muller placed 13th.
Persson led Utah in the men's classical race with a fourth-place finish, his fifth top-five of the year. Kevin Bolger was 10th for his sixth top 10 while Noé Bellet rounded out Utah's scorers in 14th. Oscar Ivars finished 21st followed by Tucker McCrerey in 23rd and Nick Hendrickson in 27th.
Bjertness had a career-best second-place finish in the slalom to lead the Utes. Joergen Brath earned his sixth top-10 finish of the year, crossing the line 10th. Andy Trow finished 14th to score for the Utes while Dominic Demschar did not finish and Tim Hribar was disqualified for missing a gate.
Nora Eide led the women in the slalom with a career-high 11th-place finish. She had the fourth-fastest second run of the day. Chloe Fausa was 14th followed by Kristiina Rove in 15th. Ana Kobal did not finish her second run after recording the sixth-fastest first run, while Teagen Palmer did not finish her first run.
"The last day of regular season was quite a nerve-wracking one," Utah head alpine coach Jaka Korencan said. "Endre had a great day and put together two solid runs for the podium, it was just great to see him finish his freshmen season strong. I have to mention Nora, who led the women's team with her best performance of the year, she really deserves it. Overall, we have to be excited with the last four days of racing. I think we grew as a team and learned quite a lot about our strengths and weaknesses. I really feel good about the direction this team is heading and I know that the best is yet to come."
Colorado won the title with 651 points followed by Utah with 609. New Mexico finished third (550) followed by Denver (542) and Montana State (513) in fourth and fifth. Utah's women were the top-scoring women's team at the event with 326 points, followed by New Mexico's women with 320 points.
"It was one of the most exciting Regional Championships I can remember," Utah Director of Skiing Kevin Sweeney said. "There is absolutely no room for error right now in the Western region. We faltered a touch and CU was able to capitalize. This was a really great effort across the board for us. It has been a real confidence-boosting trip. We are a strong team and we are skiing really, really well right now. I think this result is going to get us even more fired up for the NCAA Championships. We are psyched to get home and rest up a bit before our quick turnaround to Lake Placid. I'm very impressed with the entire squad. We had several personal-best results in Alaska. We are in good shape, happy, and firing on all cylinders. I like where we sit leading into the Championships. Kudos to the alpine and Nordic women who are the top combined team in the RMISA."
The Utes will travel to the NCAA Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y, from March 11-14. Utah will announce its NCAA roster of 12 skiers (three per discipline per gender) in the coming days.
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