The defending national champion University of Colorado ski team earned three individual titles at the Denver Invitational, but the Pioneers took top team honors Sunday at Winter Park and Steamboat Springs. Denver snapped Colorado’s five-meet win streak, keeping the Buffaloes from tying an 11-year-old record for consecutive wins.
Denver’s 550 points topped Colorado at 538. Utah finished third with 478. Western State was eighth at 206 and Wyoming 10th with 21.
Colorado’s Lucie Zikova won the women’s slalom in 1 minute, 33.33 seconds. Denver’s Claire Abbe was second in 1:34.27. The Pioneers’ John Buchar took the men’s slalom in 1:24.71 and teammate Adam Cole was second in 1:24.73.
Zikova also won the women’s giant slalom Friday, in 1:52.19. The Buffs’ Maria Grevsgaard won the 10-kilometer classical in 35:57.6.
The continuation of the Montana State Invitational at Eldora Ski Resort near Nederland was postponed because of high winds. The meet will finish in Taos, N.M., on Thursday, one day ahead of the New Mexico Invitational.
UNC wins season-opening baseball series
The Northern Colorado baseball team rallied from a 5-0 deficit behind Adam Symons’ two-out bases-loaded double in the fifth inning and the Bears earned an 8-5 victory over New Mexico State on Sunday, giving them a season-opening series victory in Las Cruces, N.M.
The Bears (2-1), trailing 5-3 in the eighth, tied the game on a two-run home run from Grady Gorman. UNC then produced a three-run ninth inning and finished the three-game series with 22 hits.
Pioneers’ gymnasts defeat New Hampshire
Behind Heather Huffaker’s all-around title, the No. 12-ranked Denver gymnastics team defeated New Hampshire at Lundholm Gymnasium in Durham, N.H. It was the Pioneers’ (4-5) first road win of the season.
