Alison Dunlap

Team GT scored another double today as series leaders Alison Dunlap and Roland Green won the final round of STXC racing, also taking the series titles. Immediately afterward under darkening skies, Kirt Voreis won his first-ever NCS DS, while Katrina Miller locked up her championship with a win.

Day two of racing got underway Saturday afternoon in Mount Snow, as the U.S. Championships continued along their merry way in the land of maple syrup and, unfortunately today, rain. Racers and the like awoke to cold wet conditions Saturday, with two of the biggest crowd-pleasers ahead of them on the second of three days of elite pro racing. While everyone prepped for the day's two events, the courses got wet and muddy. By 4:00pm, though, it was time to suit up and line up. Weather be damned, it was time for some racing!

Short Track Cross-Country
With the first rains of the entire NORBA season falling unseasonably in August, the STXC was a polar opposite to Friday's dry XC event. That didn't bother Alison Dunlap one bit though, as the new XC champ crushed the women's field for the second day in a row, winning the final round and title simultaneously. Dunlap has done this three times now; taking both XC event wins in one weekend. It is most certainly her year, as she beat out perennial champion Ruthie Matthes both days, unseating the three-time champ.

Jimena Florit-Juarez finished second, after a chase group finally gave up on Tinker's wife, followed by Matthes and Melanie Dorion. The women finished muddy and cold - but no time for shivers, it was time for the men.

	Roland Green

Roland Green, the former roadie, has absolutely ruled the STXC this season, winning three events coming into the finals. And he did it again here in the finals, taking win number four just one day after winning the long format XC. He was chased for much of the race by Lance Armstrong, who rode much of the event in 3rd, before eventually finishing fourth. Second place was Canuck Andreas Hestler, who rode with Green in a power-duo up front, Hestler finally losing a bit of steam in the final lap.

Dual Slalom

	Katrina Miller

The skies finally stopped raining on everyone's parade at the end of Saturday, long enough to see the season's last dual slalom at dusk. The track, full of deep berms and several jumps, stayed dry for the most part - except in off-camber grass turns which slid out several riders.

Katrina Miller took it to the finals with Leigh Donovan, the two riders just 20 points apart for the overall title. For Donovan to win though, she'd need a first place, with Miller finishing third or worse. No such luck, and Miller beat out Donovan in the final two runs, taking the NORBA championship. Donovan takes the National title, as Miller isn't a U.S. resident. In consolation racing, retiring Mercedes Gonzales beat Sari Jorgensen in her last pro DS race ever.

	Kirt Voreis

Men's racing had some high-flying action for the kids, the course ending with two huge double-jumps. Kirt Voreis worked his way up the ladder to meet world cup champ Eric Carter in the final two runs, beating him and taking his first NCS win in the sport. In the consolation bracket, Ryan White beat out Steve Peat for third place.

Brian Lopes, still healing his ankle, had enough points to quit after the first round of racing, his points total enough to ensure him the title outright for the third time. Eric Carter and Wade Bootes are next in points totals.

Check back Sunday for Downhill results, as well as a list of our national team to compete at the upcoming World Championships in Åre, Sweden.

— Ari Cheren, not to be confused with Åre, for MountainZone.com