BARTLETT–The Buddy Werner League (BWL) State Championships were held at Attitash on March 12-13 where hundreds of the best racers from ski teams across New Hampshire came together to compete in the slalom and giant slalom two-day event. The Crotched Mountain Junior Race Team qualified 19 racers.

For the second year in a row, Ashley Humphreys from Lyndeborough was named to the BWL New Hampshire State Team representing Crotched Mountain by coming in top 10 in the Girl’s J5 division, ages 9-10. Humphreys had a 18th and 12th place runs in the giant slalom on Saturday to come in 13th place overall then on Sunday she lit up the course with an aggressive and smooth run to avoid problem with a flush gate that was causing trouble to many other racers to place 6th on that run with a time of 44.84 then on her second run her time was 46.17, good for 9th place run where she placed 8th overall for the slalom race with a combined time of 1:31.02. Overall results for the championship is determined by the best two runs over the two-day meet so her score 9 and 6 place runs equaled 15 points which was good for 10th place, securing a spot on the state team where she was awarded the converted embroidered 2011 BWL State Team hat.

J5 teammates Kaitlyn Laurendeau of Bedford placed 26th overall with strong results in the GS race with a 16th and 21st place run while Elo Catlin of Dublin enjoyed a 30th place SL run to placed 50th and Laura Caron of Bedford placed 75th.

In the Girl’s J4 race (ages 11-12) Rhiannon Allison of Mont Vernon and Anna Farrow of Amherst both had great results on their first slalom runs to be in 11th and 12th place respectively. Allison placed 24th on her second run where slalom proved to be her strong race of the meet to place 22nd overall. Unfortunately, Farrow was disqualified on her second run for splitting a gate and was disqualified. Both girls had falls in their first slalom runs on Sunday but bounded back for their second run. Farrow placed 40th overall while Peterborough’s Maura Rapposelli placed 48th and Alana Barretto of Amherst placed 58th while Erika Wentz of Nashua placed 93rd and Addy Catlin placed 94th.

Twenty-three was the lucky number for J4 racer RJ Humphreys of Lyndeborough who had two very aggressive slalom race runs to place 23rd overall and was consistent with a 23rd place overall for his GS race to come in 31st for the two-day meet. He commented he was very proud of his performance at the championships. Vincent Dorow of Bedford had a good showing in his second SL run with a 23rd place run for 46th overall, Hollis’ Luke Martin placed 80th with two good GS runs and Eli Tamok from Francestown came in 96th but experienced a few falls on some tough gates.

Rowan Ainslie from Hancock led the J5 Boys in 63rd place overall with smooth looking slalom runs, Aiden Alusic-Bingham of Dublin came in 84th, Amherst duo Henry Howe placed 86th and Jack Ede placed 95th while Brandon Bernsten from Bedford placed 96th.