***These lists are unofficial and will remain so until 12:00PM Wednesday, January 30, 2013***

2013_EHS_BOYS_TEAMS

2013_EHS_GIRLS_TEAMS

2013_J2_BOYS_TEAMS

2013_J2_GIRLS_TEAMS

2013_J2_EHS_Classic_Boys

2013_J2_EHS_Classic_Girls

2013_J2_EHS_Freestyle_Results

Weston's Zoe Snow strides her way to fourth place in the girls' race. Photo: Tamara Hitchcock.

GRAFTON, Vermont – Last year at the Eastern High School Championships in Rumford, Maine Massachusetts climbed over Maine and New Hampshire to finish second as a team on the trails of Black Mountain.  Now Vermont, the longstanding top dog, stands as the final rung to get to the top of the northeast high school ski ladder.

Massachusetts skiers and coaches seem willing to do whatever necessary to get there and as Bill Murray’s character, Carl Spackler, proclaimed in the 1980 comedy ‘Caddyshack’, sometimes you have to prepare like your enemy in order to beat them.

“I have to laugh, because I’ve outsmarted even myself. My enemy, my foe, is [Vermont]. In order to conquer [Vermont], I have to learn to think like [Vermont]. And, whenever possible, to look like [Vermont]. I’ve gotta get inside [Vermont's] pelt and crawl around for a few days.”

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Julia Kern (Waltham) leads Corey Stock (Lin-Sud) during the MA EHS/J2 qualifier at Weston Ski Track yesterday. Kern won the race in a time of 18:11. Photo: Tamara Hitchcock.

The first qualification race for Massachusetts’ Eastern High School Championship and New England J2 Invite teams took place on the Weston Ski Track yesterday. This freestyle race was the first of two races that high school skiers compete in to be selected to each of these two state teams. When the manmade snowflakes from the blowing snow guns finally settled to the ground it was Eli Hoenig (Lincoln-Sudbury) and Julia Kern (Waltham) who blazed to victory.

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