Lenox Secures Boys Title, Girls Race Tightens Up

PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Lenox’s Owen Tanner and Mackenzie Valenzuela Thursday were the fastest skiers down the mountain in a Berkshire County High School Alpine League slalom race at Bousquet.

 

Tanner led the Millionaires’ boys team to its fifth win in five races to clinch a league title with one week left in the regular season.

 

Valenzuela and Lenox girls also won, picking up their second win of the winter to draw within a point of league-leading Pittsfield in the team standings.

 

Monument Mountain’s girls finished second for the first time since Week One behind a fifth-place finish by Lucy Dohoney. That pushed Pittsfield into third despite the runner-up showing from Isabella Scalise and Reese Albano’s fourth-place finish.

 

The Generals head into Monday’s Senior Night and season-ending giant slalom race with 47 team points, one ahead of Lenox.

 

The top two team positions are flipped on the boys’ team standings. But second-place Pittsfield, with 45 points, cannot catch Lenox, which takes 50 points into meet No. 6.

 

Tanner and Kody Lesser finished 1-2 for Lenox on Thursday, and teammates Adam Tanner and Craig Newbert were fourth and fifth-respectively.

 

Breaking up Lenox’s hold on the top five spots was Pittsfield’s Colin Benke in third.

 

Girls Team Scores

1. Lenox, 239.66 seconds; 2. Monument Mountain, 240.94; 3. Pittsfield, 257.73; 4. Miss Hall’s, 275.21; 5. Wahconah, 288.69.

 

Girls Top 10

1. Mackenzie Valenzuela, L, 50.01 seconds; 2. Isabella Scalise, PHS, 54.01; 3. Aryanna Bouchard, W, 54.88; 4. Reese Albano, PHS, 55.77; 5. Lucy Dohoney, MM, 56.07; 6. Madeline Harrington, PHS, 58.34; 7. Emma Addy, L, 59.42; 8. Ana Mollomo, MM, 1:01.58; 9. Juniper Raczkowski, MM, 1:01.60; 10. Kathryn Barquinero, MM, 1:01.69.

 

Boys Team Scores

1. Lenox, 212.89 seconds; 2. Pittsfield, 248.07; 3. Wahconah, 263.20; 4. Monument Mountain, 282.87.

 

Boys Top 10

1. Owen Tanner, L, 46.19 seconds; 2. Kody Lesser, L, 50.41; 3. Colin Behnke, PHS, 55.92; 4. Adam Tanner, L, 57.99; 5. Craig Neubert, L, 58.30; 6. Niilo Davis-McDowell, MM, 1:00.13; 7. Nolan Raymer, W, 1:00.91; 8. Gibby Massini, W, 1:00.94; 9. Sam Glockner, PHS, 1:02.01; 10. Nico Gimeno Nunez, MM, 1:04.03.