{"id":2442086,"date":"2019-03-24T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/sports-briefs-march-24-banked-slalom-results-bhs-track-in-grand-junction\/"},"modified":"2019-03-24T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:40:00","slug":"sports-briefs-march-24-banked-slalom-results-bhs-track-in-grand-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/sports-briefs-march-24-banked-slalom-results-bhs-track-in-grand-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports briefs March 24: Banked slalom results, BHS track in Grand Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.8612804878049\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-302485-27\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Pedro Margarita competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pedro Margarita competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Pedro Margarita competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Boulder's Genevieve Lillis competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Boulder's Genevieve Lillis competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Boulder&#8217;s Genevieve Lillis competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Snowmass Village's Kelly Baker competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Snowmass Village's Kelly Baker competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Snowmass Village&#8217;s Kelly Baker competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Aspen's Zach Hooper competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"Aspen's Zach Hooper competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Aspen&#8217;s Zach Hooper competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Aspen's Alberto Vila competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"Aspen's Alberto Vila competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Aspen&#8217;s Alberto Vila competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-5-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-5.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times | Carbondale's Shawn Pfister competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-5.jpg\" alt=\"Carbondale's Shawn Pfister competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Carbondale&#8217;s Shawn Pfister competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).<\/strong><br \/>Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-6-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-6.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Melinda Bower\/courtesy | Basalt High School sophomore Sierra Bower competes at the Central Warrior Invitational on Saturday, March 23, 2019, in Grand Junction.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-6.jpg\" alt=\"Basalt High School sophomore Sierra Bower competes at the Central Warrior Invitational on Saturday, March 23, 2019, in Grand Junction.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Basalt High School sophomore Sierra Bower competes at the Central Warrior Invitational on Saturday, March 23, 2019, in Grand Junction.<\/strong><br \/>Melinda Bower\/courtesy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-7-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-7.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Reese Brown\/U.S. Ski &amp; Snowboard | U.S. Ski Team member Simi Hamilton\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/03\/sportsbriefs-atd-032519-1-7.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Ski Team member Simi Hamilton\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>U.S. Ski Team member Simi Hamilton<\/strong><br \/>Reese Brown\/U.S. Ski &amp; Snowboard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-march-24-banked-slalom-results-bhs-track-in-grand-junction\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-march-24-banked-slalom-results-bhs-track-in-grand-junction\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Dierdorff, Karlinski win banked slalom snowboard races in Snowmass<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The 2019 Slash the Mass Banked Slalom was held Sunday at Snowmass Ski Area. Steamboat Springs snowboarder Mick Dierdorff, who competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics and recently won gold as an alpine snowboarder at the world championships in Utah, won the men\u2019s open\/pro division with a time of 2 minutes, 2.19 seconds. He held off Aspen\u2019s Morris Hogan, a past winner of the race, who had a time of 2:02.51, a margin of only three-hundreths of a second. Boulder\u2019s Jake Black was third in 2:03.74.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Taking the women\u2019s pro\/open title was Aspen\u2019s Jordie Karlinski, herself a former pro who came within a run of making the 2014 Olympics. Her winning time of 2:09.20 was less than a second better than Laura Hadar, another local rider and past champion of the event. Breckenridge\u2019s Darien Giedd was third in 2:22.08.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my4.raceresult.com\/120751\/#0_5E7BC8\">Complete results can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Basalt\u2019s Bower wins mile, two-mile races in Grand Junction<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The Basalt High School track and field team took a small contingent of athletes to the Central Warrior Invitational on Saturday in Grand Junction. BHS sophomore Sierra Bower continued her hot start to the season by winning both the girls mile- and two-mile races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">She won the 1,600-meter race in 5 minutes, 33.75 seconds, a solid 13 second ahead of second-place finisher Alexis Chelle of Palisade. Basalt senior Megan Maley was third in 5:51.85. Maley also finished third in the 800-meter run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">In the 3,200-meter race, Bower finished in 11:29.69, almost 50 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Tristian Spence of Grand Junction Central.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Other notable finishes for Basalt included Gabrielle DeWind taking fourth in discus, plus Samantha Andrade fifth in both 200- and 400-meter dash, and eighth in the 100-meter hurdles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Rulbe Alvarado led the Basalt boys by taking fifth in the 200-meter dash and sixth in the 300-meter hurdles. Brady Lemke was fifth in the triple jump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadSmall\">Aspen\u2019s Hamilton 26th in final race of World Cup cross-country ski season<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The World Cup cross-country ski season concluded Sunday with the freestyle pursuit races at the finals in Quebec, Canada. Aspen native Simi Hamilton finished 26th in the men\u2019s 15-kilometer race, which was second among Americans. Erik Bjornsen was 20th.<\/p>\n<p>Norway\u2019s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo won the race, making him a perfect 3-for-3 in races at World Cup finals. It allowed him to edge out Russia\u2019s Alexander Bolshunov for the overall season globe. Klaebo won the sprint globe and Bolshunov the distance globe for the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Hamilton finished the year 37th in the overall standings, 52nd in distance and 17th in sprint, his specialty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Sweden\u2019s Nina Nilsson won the women\u2019s 10k pursuit race on Sunday to all finish a perfect 3-for-3 at finals. Americans Sade Bjornsen (11th) and Jessica Diggins (14th) just missed the top 10. Basalt\u2019s Hailey Swirbul, a U.S. Ski Team rookie, got her third World Cup start of the weekend, taking 41st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Norway\u2019s Ingvild Flugstad Ostberg clinched the overall globe for the season. Nilsson was the season-long sprint champion and Norway\u2019s Therese Johaug the distance champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size STND-STND BriefText\"><strong>O\u2019Brien, Winters take titles at US Alpine Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. (AP) \u2014 Luke Winters and Nina O\u2019Brien won slalom titles at the 2019 U.S. Alpine Championship on Sunday at Waterville Valley Resort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">It was O\u2019Brien\u2019s fourth consecutive win at the championships. The 21-year old took first in Alpine combined and super-G at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine earlier in the week before the event moved across the border Saturday, when O\u2019Brien then won the parallel slalom. It was the first time the event appeared in the national championship program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Winters, who also won alpine combined at Sugarloaf, took the slalom with a two-run time of 1:44.07. Garret Driller, who won Saturday\u2019s parallel slalom, finished second and Sandy Vietze third in 1:44.99, three hundredths of a second behind Driller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">O\u2019Brien cruised to her seventh career U.S. title in 1:55.25, 2.1 seconds faster than second-place Paula Moltzan. Patricia Mangan took third in 1:57.44.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The championships close with Tuesday\u2019s giant slalom, an event O\u2019Brien won in 2015 at Sugarloaf.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:acolbert@aspentimes.com\">acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-march-24-banked-slalom-results-bhs-track-in-grand-junction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Margarita competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times Boulder&#8217;s Genevieve Lillis competes in the banked slalom on Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Snowmass Ski Area. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times).Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times Snowmass Village&#8217;s Kelly Baker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 08:54:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}