CRAFTSBURY – The Craftsbury Biathlon Club (CBC) hosted nearly 130 skiers in the Bayley Hazen Shootout. About 70 of the participants have been attending regular training sessions or had previous biathlon experience, but about 60 of the skiers were learning. The experienced skiers skied five laps, shooting four times total between laps. The novice skiers skied three laps with two shooting stages. In the experienced boys event, Bowman Sudday hit 14/20 and skied a time of 14:14. For the men, former Green Racing Project (GRP) skier, Tim Cunningham won in 19:01 only missing two shots. GRPer Tim Cobb was 3rd and Albany’s Ethan Dreissigacker was 4th. There was a bit of reunion of past biathletes with former GRPers Claire Egan 1st in 23:02 (hit 16/20), Hallie Grossman 2, Emily Dreissigacker 3, Susan Dunklee 5, and Hannah Dreissigacker 8. Craftbury residents Aemelia Terrone placed 12 with Lila Mackenzie 15.
In the boys novice division, CBC skiers included Teddy Harvey 6 and Arlo Jackson 7. A bunch of CBC girls skied in the novice race with Emerson McCarthy 2, Elizabeth Stevenson 4, Elisa Bakeman 5, and Sierra Putnam 8. There were 25 skiers in the men’s novice race and 26 in the womens. David Donnelly took top honors in 18:29 and Mae Searle (Hyde Park) placed first in the women’s race 20:52.
