LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – January 11, 2019 – The Colby-Sawyer men's alpine ski team began the 2019 Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) season with slalom racing at Whiteface Mountain on a cold and blustery Friday.

The first carnival of the season was hosted by Saint Lawrence. Today was originally scheduled to be giant slalom, but due to the conditions the racers competed in slalom racing. The race occurred on Draper's Drop, on Little Whiteface, under cloudy skies and temperatures hovering around zero with wind-chills well into the negatives. The day began with 82 racers, but 17 did not finish the first run and nine were unable to finish the second. The Chargers finished in 9th place with 47 points.

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

TEAM RESULTS

Junior Cody Wilson (Canyondam, Calif.) had a great start to the 2019 season by recording a career best finish of t-14th. He sat in 32nd after a first run time of 49.54, but had the 14th fastest second run (47.53) to jump into t-14th with a total time of 1:37.07.  

In his first EISA race, first-year Benjamin Taber (Sodus, N.Y.) was the second Charger in the standings. He had a first run time of 51.80 to place 44th. Taber then posted a second run time of 50.89 to jolt up to 28th with a two-run time of 1:42.69.

Rounding out the Charger finishers was first-year Nikos Tziovas (Thessaloniki, Greece). He came away with runs of 53.43 and 1:05.38 to finish in 40th at 1:58.81.  

After posting a first run time of 52.04, first-year Giovanni Lazzari (Mont Vernon, N.H.) did not complete his second run.

Sophomore Luke Rodarte (Truckee, Calif.) did not finish the first run and sophomore RJ Humphreys (Lyndeborough, N.H.) was disqualified during his second run.

The Chargers will compete in the giant slalom tomorrow.  

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