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CHARLEMONT — As a skiing purist, Jerry Marchegiani was floored by the perfomance Tuesday by Jason Denoncourt.

The Andover High senior won both the slalom (36.27) and the giant slalom (37.53) at the Mass. State Meet at Berkshire East. There were about 150 competitors in both events, which were pushed back a week due to poor conditions. 

Andover junior Jason Denoncourt beat out five St. John's Prep standouts to win the North Shore League's Interscholastic Meet. Denoncourt had quite a day at Bradford Ski Area with a combined slalol/giant slalom time of 44.31, to beat runner-up Jeff DiNitto (45.29) by nearly a full second.
The Prep easily won its 10th straight Interscholastic title with North Andover in second. Cole Masterson and Mitchell Flaherty went 7-8 overall to pace the Knights.

Pinkerton seventh as a team at the New Hampshire Division 1 Ski Championship. Owen Sezgin placed a team-high 10th in the slalom. Kenneth McCrathy was 15th in the slalom and a team-best 22nd in the giant slalom.

Cole Masterson placed tied for sixth overall and Alex Martel took eighth as North Andover downed Andover 80-55 in the final regular-season matchup in the North Shore Ski League. Andover's Jason Denoncourt was the runner-up on the day. Strangely, there were three ties in the top 15. The boys and girls all-league Interscholastic Meets are next Wednesday at Bradford Ski Area 3:30 p.m.

It was another good showing for Andover's Jason Denoncourt, who raced to first in 22.80 at yesterday's boys ski meet.

Andover's Jason Denoncourt placed second overall and North Andover's Alex Martel grabbed fifth on the day in North Shore League ski action. The Knights beat Masco while Andover was no match for St. John's Prep.

Pinkerton's ski teams swept five-team meets and both had the day's No. 1 overall skiier in the large fields. For the girls it was Danielle Martineau and for the boys it was Owen Sezgin.

North Andover swept its two meets led by Alex Martel (third overall among the seven teams) and Zach Wolmering (10th overall). Andover's Jason Denoncourt was second overall, just behind St. John's Sebastian Fisichelli.

Mikka Hyvonen took seventh in the giant slalom and fifth in the slalom to lead the Astros to a fifth-place finish Tuesday at the Division 1 state ski championships. Owen Sezgin was the No. 2 Astro on the day. Londonderry's Joshua Galluzzo was second in the GS and seventh in the slalom. Patrick Healey took a 15th and a 23rd to lead Timberlane.

Andover's Jason Denoncourt and North Andover's Maria Cavallaro were the top skiiers on the hill during Wednesday's Interscholastic Meet at Bradford, taking first in the boys and girls races respectively. Denoncourt clocked a combined time of 48.29, while Cavallaro's time of 49.08 was nearly four seconds faster than the next best girls time and would have been good enough for second in the boys race as well.

North Andover beat Andover, 88-47, in a meet which had been cancelled four times (Jan 24, Feb. 7, Feb. 9, Feb. 13). The Cooperstein twins powered the Knights while Jason Denoncourt of Andover was the day's top overall performer.

The local ski teams got an experience three decades in the making, as Thursday marked the first time their league ran slalom in the regular season meet in over 30 years thanks in large part to the addition of new brush base gates that don't pop out, similar to the ones used at the Olympics. Haverhill's Filip Matijevic was the top local finisher (fourth, 23.41), followed by North Andover's Jon Cooperstein (fifth, 23.45) and Cole Masterson (sixth, 23.53).

Andover's Jason Denoncourt was the fastest man on the hill, taking first in Tuesday's skiing opener with a time of 20.55. North Andover's Ben Cooperstein took eighth overall (21.02) and North Andover's Sam Naftal took 10th (21.10).

North Andover placed second to St. John's Prep at the Interscholastic ski meet. The Knights were led by Connor and Cole Masterson in fifth and 11th, respectively. Andover's Jason Denoncourt placed fourth.