| Mountain View High School Nordic Ski Team

WILLAMETTE PASS — Mountain View placed first in the boys team scoring and Summit’s Alex Martin was the individual winner in the freestyle class Friday on the snowy opening day of the 2013 Oregon Interscholastic Ski Racing Association nordic state championships at Willamette Pass Resort.

South Eugene captured the first-day honors on the girls side, led by Phacelia Cramer, who placed first overall. South placed first in the team standings ahead of second-place Mountain View, which is the three-time defending overall girls champion.

The Mountain View boys rode the 3-4-5 finish of Imran Wolfenden, Sam King and Adi Wolfenden to 12 team points to top the standings in the six-team boys field. South Eugene was second with 19 points, followed by Summit with 41.

Martin posted the day’s fastest time over the 5.3-kilometer course, finishing in 14 minutes, 6 seconds, to beat runner-up Trevor Merrifield of South Eugene (14:33).

A 1-4-5 finish led by Cramer (16:02) gave the South Eugene girls 10 team points, which topped Mountain View’s 23. The Cougars were led by Tia Hatton’s sixth-place finish, and also scoring for Mountain View were Sage Hassell, in eighth place, and Grace Cole, who tied for 10th.

Summit’s Micaela Martin (16:45) was second among the girls, helping the Storm to a team score of 46 for fifth place in the seven-team girls field.

The championship meet concludes today with classic races set to start at 10 a.m., the boys followed by the girls. Relays are scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

Prep nordic skiing

Mountain View boys take state team title

By staff report / The Bulletin

WILLAMETTE PASS — Mountain View stretched its streak of dominance to seven years in the boys division of the Oregon Interscholastic Ski Racing Association nordic championships, which concluded Saturday at Willamette Pass Resort.

The Cougar girls fell short in their bid for a fourth consecutive OISRA team title, but their second-place finish behind South Eugene helped Mountain View retain the association’s combined (boys and girls) team championship.

Sam King of Mountain View won the boys crown in the 4.8-kilometer classic race with a time of 16 minutes, 52 seconds. Summit’s Alex Martin, the winner of Friday’s freestyle event, was second in 17:17. Martin captured the boys combined championship with a time of 31:23; South Eugene’s Trevor Merrifield was second in the combined standings (32:01), and King was third (32:15).

King also skied the opening leg for the Cougars in the 3-x-800-meter relay (classic, classic, skate), which Mountain View won in 7:55. Brothers Adi and Imran Wolfenden skied the other legs for the victorious Cougar relay.

On the girls side Saturday, North Eugene’s Helen Cutting won the classic race in 19:57. Phacelia Cramer of South Eugene, the freestyle winner on Friday, was second in the classic (20:34) and finished first in the girls combined (36:36). Cutting was runner-up in the combined competition (36:45), and Summit’s Micaela Martin, who finished second in the freestyle on Friday and fifth in the classic on Saturday, was third in the combined (37:55).

North Eugene won the girls relay (9:39), followed by South Eugene (9:48) and Mountain View (9:51).

In the team scoring, Mountain View rolled to the boys title with 28 points, followed by South Eugene with 55 and Sheldon of Eugene with 102. South Eugene posted the low team score among the girls with 41 points, followed by Mountain View with 58 and North Eugene with 71.

Combined, Mountain View finished with 86 points to win by 10 points over South Eugene. Ashland finished a distant third in the combined standings with 208 points.