Monday, January 23, 2012

Skiing Battles Snow and Tough Schedule


By Jay Alter - The Darien High School Ski Team in its second race in as many days from a postponement last week due to lack of snow faced a tough field in Greenwich, Lauralton Hall, Litchfield, and New Canaan at the Mt. Southington Ski Area on January 11. The Girls Varsity Team with a time of 325.00 finished 2nd defeating Lauralton Hall 380.67 and losing to Greenwich 317.33. The Boys Varsity Team with a time of 292.31 finished 3rd defeating Litchfield 333.15 while finishing close behind Greenwich 290.63 and New Canaan 287.46.
Girls’ times this week were Fay Rizzuto 50.17 (Co-captain), Kailin Edgar 53.94 (Co-captain), Taylor Hart 54.38, Allison Graham 54.96, Katharine Graham 55.49, Courtney Kyritz 56.06, Kelsey Edgar 58.20, Sarah Swirbul 58.90, Abby Howe 60.47, and Hannah Nilsson 64.96.
Boys’ times this week were Will McCoy 46.63 (Co-captain), Pablo Castro 47.51, Peter Del Col 48.43, Mike Rizzuto 49.49, Matt Nelson 49.81, Andy Mogenson 50.44 (Co-captain), Nick Wolf 52.06, Alex Von Stuelpnagel 53.52, Graham Lesco 53.69, and Chris Brophy DSQ (Co-captain),
More scores and information about the Connecticut Interscholastic Ski League may be found at http://www.cislracing.org/.
Coaches Brian Zeyer said, “The boys and girls teams both had a tough night last night with their second race in two days. The kids were competitive on some not so good snow conditions.”

Courtesy: Dave Graham

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