The Middlebury ski teams combined to place third at the Williams Carnival, using a strong day of relay competition to surge in front of fourth-place University of New Hampshire by 2.5 points. Dartmouth claimed the team title with 935 points, while the University of Vermont finished second with 754 points.

MEN'S NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS

• Mason Wheeler helped power the men to the second-best showing in Friday's 10K freestyle. The Panther tallied a third-place time of 25:12.6.
• Finn Veit trailed Colby's Benjamin Lewis by less than two seconds to earn 11th (25:41.4). Abrahm Geissinger concluded Middlebury's scoring on the first day in 16th (25:57.9).
• The top Panther relay group (Peter Warner, Wheeler and Nathan Doughty) finished fifth in Saturday's 3x5, clocking in at 43:16.3.

WOMEN'S NORDIC HIGHLIGHTS

• Shea Brams and Beth McIntosh logged back-to-back finishes in eighth (28:53.5) and ninth (29:06.8), respectively, in the 10K freestyle.
• Sofia Scirica also placed inside the top 15, stopping the clock in 29:33.7 to post a 13th-place effort.
• In the 3x5 relay, the highest-placing Middlebury women's group (Scirica, McIntosh, Brams) dashed to a second-place effort of 49:15.9.

MEN'S ALPINE HIGHLIGHTS

• Nicholas Unkovskoy headlined the men's efforts in Friday's giant slalom, securing a fourth-place finish with a time of 1:32.31.
• Milan Novak nabbed a top-10 spot, edging Harvard's Duncan Armstrong by one-tenth of a second, to take 10th (1:32.85).
• Sebastian Segre rounded out the day-one scorers. His two-run clocking of 1:33.04 was good for 13th and just five-hundredths of a second behind the 12th-place finisher.
• Thomas Carnahan posted his best finish as a Panther on Saturday, headlining the contingent with a combined effort of 1:35.96 that slotted third in the slalom.
• Unkovskoy earned his second top-10 effort of the weekend, claiming ninth at 1:36.91.
• Toby Jennings landed in 23rd place to secure the final Middlebury points (1:38.01).

WOMEN'S ALPINE HIGHLIGHTS

• Sophia Tozzi garnered runner-up honors with a two-run effort of 1:35.24 in the giant slalom. She logged the fastest second run on the women's side (48.97 seconds).
• The next Middlebury pointgetter was Sara Paradis, who posted a combined time of 1:36.57 to claim 16th place.
• Sophia Palmquist was just seven-hundredths of a second behind her teammate across the line to grab 17th (1:36.64).
• Palmquist finished in eighth place during Saturday's slalom with a two-run time of 1:38.83.

NOTES

• Carnahan picked up his first career podium finish in Saturday's slalom.
• Wheeler's third-place outing on Friday was his first top-three effort of the season.

Middlebury hosts the EISA Championships alongside its home carnival beginning on Friday, February 20. Alpine action is set for the Snowbowl, while the nordic squads will compete at the Rikert Outdoor Center.