HRV, Sandy boys pace Mt. Hood ski standings

Hood River’s depth led it to Sunday’s giant slalom runner-up finish over the Middle Fork course at Meadows. The Eagles had the fifth, seventh and 10th best combined runs from Eaton Beckett, Jess Aubert, and Davis Pruder. HRV’s top skier this season, Lars Welch, had the second-fastest first run of the day of 48.41 seconds, but he did not complete his second run.

Trout Lake’s Rowan Shuman finished second individually to Sandy High’s Grant Messinger. Shuman’s runs were 48.78 and 48.06 to the runs of 46.01 and 45.2 for Messinger. The Dalles’ lone skier, Cade Nordquist, was 40th overall out of 52 finishers (two complete runs).

The Hood River girls were led by Emily Teets, who won her second race in three tries. Teets and Grant High’s Josephine Bourgault are having a stellar head-to-head competition thus far. Teets won races 1 and 3 and was second to Bourgault in race 2. Bourgault was second in the first and third races.

Teets’ times at Meadows in giant slalom were 47.53 and 46.69 to the runs of 48.99 and 49.05 of Bourgault. Hood River also received team times from Arlie Sparling, who was fourth with runs of 52.29 and 51.99, and Zoe Mortensen (sixth, 52.52 and 52.53). Eliotte Walsh added depth to HRV’s team effort by placing ninth for the Eagles.

The Dalles’ Kaiya Doty was third with runs of 51.64 and 52.33, and Ella Shuman of Trout Lake was 10th (53.77, 53.92).

Teets was second in the Mt. Hood League’s second race Jan. 20, a slalom on the Challenger run at Ski Bowl. Sparling was fourth. The Eagles did not have three skiers complete two runs and did not post a team score. Grant High won the race.

Also at Ski Bowl, the HRV boys were second, by a second, to Sandy. Cleveland was a second behind the Eagles. Aubert was sixth, Beckett eighth, and Pruder 15th to complete Hood River’s team score. Trout Lake’s Rowan Shuman was third overall.