Alan Stevens	Barbara Lang	ETMM Crescent Cup Winner	JR Thacker	Lisa Beregi	Lisa Beregi Birthday Cake
Lisa Beregi	Morgan in the start gates.	Morgan Thacker	Morgan Thacker		Awards for Crescent Cup
Rick, Matt & Mark

Well, we did it again, folks! That's right; we won the Crescent Cup after a seven year drought.

Your ETMM Race Team went to Snowshoe/Silver Creek, WV the weekend of March 7th & 8th to compete for the Crescent Cup and we brought it home! The weather was beautiful...not too hot or too cold but just right for a winning weekend.

    After Saturday's slalom races ETMM was in a four way tie for first place with teams from Asheville, Raleigh, and Greensboro, North Carolina, with nine other teams close behind. On Sunday the battle continued through both giant slalom races and we all knew it would be a tight finish.

      At the awards ceremony several ETMM racers were called to receive individual trophies they had earned for being in the top three in their respective flights for the weekend. They were

Morgan Thacker         Flight 14          3^rd place

Barbara Lang            Flight 13          2^nd place

Alan Stevens             Flight 13          1^st place

Mark Mabry               Flight 11          1^st place

Mark Dison               Flight 5            3^rd place

J.R. Thacker              Flight 4            3^rd place

      All the other ETMM racers present performed well, also, and posted good weekend results. They included Joy Thacker in flight 15, Lisa Beregi in flight 12, Rick Bates and Matt Cartier in flight 11, Savannah Stevens in flight 6, and Cody Stevens and Evan Thacker in flight 3. Beth Dison was in flight 22 for re-qualification.

     However, we continued to hear awards in the names of racers from the other three teams that we had tied with on Saturday, and we knew that team totals were going to be close. The tension continued to mount after individual awards were completed and team announcements began.

       In fourth place, with 71 points, Asheville. In third place, with 73 points, Raleigh. In second place, with 74 points, (here the announcer paused for what seemed to be a very long time, then announced) Greensboro. We were ecstatic, knowing at that moment that we had won the trophy. Then, the official announcement:  and in first place, with 75 points, East Tennessee!!! There were a total of 4 points separating fourth place from first place. It was indeed a very tight race all weekend and we felt fantastic knowing that we had defeated all those good teams to bring home the Crescent Cup Trophy for the first time since 2002. It will be ours for a year, and then we'll go after it again during next year's Crescent Cup Race weekend! (We do receive a permanent trophy that we keep).

    Be sure to attend the April 7th club meeting to view all the trophies and to share our pride as we award this year's winners. We look forward to seeing you there!

Mark Dison