{"id":2455490,"date":"2020-03-07T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/sports-briefs-11\/"},"modified":"2020-03-07T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T05:50:00","slug":"sports-briefs-gaston-pihl-win-annual-americas-uphill-race-on-aspen-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/photos\/sports-briefs-gaston-pihl-win-annual-americas-uphill-race-on-aspen-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports briefs: Gaston, Pihl win annual America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.4655913978495\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-322260-905\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-1024x677.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | People make their way up Little Nell at the start of America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. 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(Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-11\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-1-1024x692.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-1.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-1-1024x692.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"People make their way up Little Nell at the start of America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. 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(Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-11\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-2-1024x689.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-2.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-2-1024x689.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"America\u2019s Uphill racer Ashley Eaton skins up Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. 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(Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-11\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-3-1024x682.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-3.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-3-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"An America\u2019s Uphill racer skins up Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-4-1024x662.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times | People make their way up Little Nell at the start of America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.47692307692308\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9.5384615384615\">\n<p><strong>People make their way up Little Nell at the start of America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong><br \/>Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times<br \/><a class=\"buy-link\" href=\"http:\/\/aspentimes.mycapture.com\/mycapture\/remoteimage.asp?backtext=Return+to+AspenTimes.com&amp;backurl=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-11\/&amp;image=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-4-1024x662.jpg&amp;notes=https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-4.jpg\"><i class=\"fas fa-shopping-cart\"><\/i> Buy Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/EDLuphill-atd-030820-1-4-1024x662.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"People make their way up Little Nell at the start of America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-11\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/sports-briefs-11\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">Gaston, Pihl conquer Ajax to win America\u2019s Uphill crowns<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">A week after he and Max Taam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/gaston-taam-reset-record-book-in-another-power-of-four-skimo-win\/\">broke a course record to win another Power of Four<\/a> ski mountaineering race, Aspen\u2019s John Gaston was the top overall finisher in Saturday\u2019s annual America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Put on by the Ute Mountaineer, the race is a 2.5-mile trek with more than 3,000-vertical feet of climbing up Ajax. Gaston, who competes internationally in skimo, finished in 41 minutes, 11 seconds. He was competing in the \u201cheavy metal\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Carbondale\u2019s Sean Van Horn, another noted endurance athlete, was second overall in 44:34, competing in the \u201ctrack skis\u201d category. In third was Aspen\u2019s Alvaro Arnal (45:34), who competed in the open category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Tracy Pihl, another local athlete, was the fastest woman with a time of 59:03. Carbondale\u2019s Jennifer Mendez was second (1:00:29) and Aspen\u2019s Hannah Dodge was third (1:01:46).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Peppino\u2019s DV Track Club, which included Van Horn and Pihl, was the top collective team on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Complete results can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utemountaineer.com\/event-calendar\/americas-uphill\/\">http:\/\/www.utemountaineer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COAL RIDGE BASKETBALL STAR GERBER STILL HAS CHANCE TO MAKE FINAL FOUR SHOOTING CONTEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Post Independent) \u2014 The table was set for Coal Ridge High School students to try to push senior basketball player Austin Gerber over the top in his semifinal fan-vote round for a chance to take part in the NCAA Final Four preps 3-point shooting contest.<\/p>\n<p>But just before a planned all-school assembly was set to start Thursday morning for both Coal Ridge and neighboring Riverside Middle School the amfam.com voting site apparently crashed, according to Gerber\u2019s mother, Aimee Gerber.<\/p>\n<p>The voting closed at 11 a.m. as scheduled without all those last-minute votes that had been planned, and Gerber was down by just 0.2 percentage points (50.1% to 49.9%) in his matchup with Colin Dougherty of Sherwood Christian out of Albany, Ga.<\/p>\n<p>After the problem was pointed out to the organizers of the American Family Insurance #DreamFearlessly Fan Vote contest, they agreed to pause the voting instead of declaring a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Voting will now resume between 9:30\u201311 a.m. (MDT, after this weekend\u2019s time change back to Daylight Savings Time) on Monday. And Coal Ridge is getting the word out to drum up a final barrage of votes to send Gerber to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Gerber won the first two rounds of voting by margins of 65% and 55% in the contest to send an \u201cunder the radar\u201d high school player to be part of the eight-contestant preps 3-point shooting competition during the college basketball finals weekend April 5 in Atlanta. The social-media campaign is being sponsored by American Family Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Gerber is a 47% 3-point shooter this year, and his Titans team qualified to play in the Class 3A regional round of the state playoffs this weekend, losing a tough one, 59-51 Friday night to DSST: Green Valley Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>The #DreamFearlessly contest began with 16 of the top statistical 3-point shooters in the nation in a bracket-style competition. There\u2019s a separate contest for girls\u2019 3-point shooters and for the boys\u2019 slam dunk competition.<\/p>\n<p>If Gerber makes it to the final round after voting resumes and closes again Monday morning, he would be matched against the winner of the other semifinal matchup between Greg Farrow of University School (Milwaukee) and Mitchell Carlos from Casa Grande Union High (Casa Grande, Ariz.).<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHAUN WHITE SAYS HE WON\u2019T COMPETE IN SUMMER OLYMPICS, COULD MAKE PUSH FOR 2022 WINTER GAMES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>VAIL (AP) \u2014 If the world sees Shaun White at an Olympics again, it will be in 2022, not later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time snowboarding champion told The Associated Press that he is taking skateboarding off his plate and won\u2019t try to qualify for that sport\u2019s Olympic debut later this year in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision became less about going for skate and more about, am I willing to walk away from snow?\u201d White said last weekend while attending the Burton U.S. Open in Vail. \u201cIt just was going in that direction, and I didn\u2019t feel comfortable with it and I can\u2019t wholeheartedly choose this path with what I\u2019ve got going on snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White, who for years was every bit as successful a skateboarder as a snowboarder, had been dangling the possibility of joining the rare group of athletes to compete in both Winter and Summer Games.<\/p>\n<p>He has long excelled in vert contests, which most resemble a snowboard halfpipe competition, but it is not part of the Olympic program. He was trying to make the switch to park, which combine halfpipes and quarterpipes with stairs and rails. White headed to Brazil last summer to compete at skateboarding world championships, where he finished 13th.<\/p>\n<p>He thought about it for a while and realized the work he\u2019d have to put in to compete against full-time skateboarders for an Olympic spot would compromise his chances of returning to the Winter Games in Beijing for a shot at a fourth gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m committed to going to China, but it doesn\u2019t feel too far-fetched for me,\u201d said the 33-year-old White. \u201cI still feel great and that\u2019s where it got left for me. I\u2019m dipping back into snow, and doing what feels right.\u201d<\/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-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People make their way up Little Nell at the start of America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. (Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times)Kelsey Brunner\/The Aspen Times Buy Photo People make their way up Little Nell at the start of America\u2019s Uphill race on Aspen Mountain on Saturday, March 7, 2020. 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