HUNTSVILLE, Utah – Utah's
Sam Dupratt won his second race of the season in the men's giant slalom at the Utah Invitational at Snowbasin on Friday afternoon. The Utes had three skiers in the top 12 to move to just four points behind leader meet Colorado.
Dupratt threw down a fast first run to take the win.
Endre Bjertness finished eighth for his fourth-straight top 10 finish of the year.
Martin Grasic had his second top-15 run of the year with a 12
th-place finish.
Joergen Brath placed 20
th.
Dominic Demschar and
Ty Sprock both did not finish their first runs.
Colorado scored 81 points on the day to pull back into the Utah Invitational lead with 455 total points, and Utah's 83-point day gives the Utes 451 points for second. Denver fell to third with 439 points followed by New Mexico (369) and Montana State (325) in fifth.
The alpine portion of the Utah Invitational continues on Saturday, Jan. 14, with the men's and women's slalom races tentatively scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Live timing is available at
www.ussalivetiming.com.
The Nordic races of the Montana State Invitational also get underway on Friday, beginning with the women's 5-km freestyle at 10 a.m. followed by the men's 10-km at 11 a.m. Live timing is available here:
http://raceresults.sportstats.us/events.xhtml?eventname=2017%20MSU%20Invitational&companies=[9]. The Utes are currently in third at the MSU Invite with 286.5 points behind Colorado (334) and Denver (308).