Alpine Skiing | MacConnell Division
at Berkshire East Mountain | Charlemont, Mass. | Saturday, February 8 | 9 a.m.
at Catamount Mountain | Egremont, Mass. | Sunday, February 9 | 9 a.m.
WHAT TO KNOW
• The Babson men's and women's alpine ski teams conclude their MacConnell Division regular season schedule with slalom races at Berkshire East Mountain and Catamount Mountain in western Massachusetts on Saturday and Sunday.
WHAT'S AT STAKE
• Both teams have already secured a spot in next weekend's USCSA Eastern Regional Championships at Sugarloaf and the Babson men secured their first division title since 1993 last weekend at West Mountain.
• The Babson men are two victories away from completing a perfect regular season, while the women's squad has already secured a second-place finish for the fourth time in five seasons since 2020.
LAST TIME AT BERKSHIRE EAST MOUNTAIN
• The Beavers return to Berkshire East for the second consecutive season and just the third time since 2005 on Saturday after both the men and women placed second in the slalom there last January.
• Sophomore
Sonnie Travis came in fourth,
Caroline Haaijer '24 was fifth and sophomore
Ava Butler placed seventh for the Babson women, while junior
Sebastian Sheppard (11th),
Lucas Wiacek '24 (13th), junior
Finn Horsley (16th) and senior
Zach Carpenter (18th) were among five men's skiers to finish among the top 20.
• Last year's giant slalom races at Berkshire East were canceled due to poor weather conditions.
LAST TIME AT CATAMOUNT MOUNTAIN
• Babson has not competed at Catamount dating back to at least the mid-1990s.
ABOUT THE BABSON MEN
• The Beavers clinched their first league title since 1993 and made it eight wins in eight races with back-to-back victories in the giant slalom at West Mountain last weekend.
• Junior
Elliot Perretta followed up Saturday's runner-up finish with a first-place showing on Sunday, first-year
James Rosenbloom came in third in both races and Sheppard came in ninth and 11th for the Greena and White.
• Sophomore
Mads Fondevik Syversen, who sat out last weekend's races, has won five of his six starts and sits atop the MacConnell Division standings, while Perretta is currently second thanks to two wins and eight top-five finishes on the year.
• Rosenbloom has six podium finishes and enters the final weekend of regular season competition in fourth place, first-year
Connor Roy, who placed sixth in Sunday's GS at West Mountain, is currently ninth, and Sheppard (11th) and first-year
Moksh Patel (12th) are separated by just one point in the standings.
ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN
• The Beavers followed up Saturday's runner-up finish with their second win of the year on Sunday in the giant slalom at West Mountain.
• Wiacek (2nd) and Travis (7th) matched their top finishes of the season in Sunday's victory, while first-year
Camryn Knowlton (5th, 8th) and senior
Amelie Alkier (7th, 10th) both recorded a pair of top-10 results for the Green and White.
• Wiacek has recorded three podium finishes and is currently fifth in the MacConell Division standings, Knowlton (6th) has three top-five and seven top-10 results, and Alkier (8th) boasts six top-10 showings this winter.
• Senior
Alli Messier (12th), sophomore
Riley Jerome (13th), Butler (14th) and Travis (16th) enter the final weekend of the regular season separated by less than 50 points and all five competitors have a chance to earn All-MacConnell Division honors, which recognizes the top 15 finishers in the season-long standings.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR
• The Babson women have never had more than five skiers earn a spot on the All-MacConnell Division team.
• Syversen and Perretta, who are separated by just 20 points atop the league standings both enter the weekend with a chance to join MacIntyre Henderson '20 in 2019 as the only male in program history to earn MacConnell Division Skier of the Year honors.
• Rosenbloom has a chance to become the Babson men's team's first MacConnell Division Rookie of the Year.
UP NEXT
• The Beavers and their top MacConnell Division rivals will travel to Carrabassett Valley, Maine, to compete in the USCSA Eastern Regional Championships at Sugarloaf Mountain.
