Dog Sled races trimmed to single day - Reynolds takes open class ahead of Sterling and Ellis

The two-days of dog-sled races at the Montana Creek Dogmusher’s Association’s Su-Valley Championships were cut a day short after high winds obliterated the trail on Saturday morning. Trail groomers worked around the clock to get the trail back in shape to race on Sunday, and all competitors were able to get one last day of racing in to close the Montana Creek season.

With temperatures around zero degrees for most of the day, the temperatures were just right for a sprint race. Kim Wells from Anchorage took first place in both the 4dog and 6dog class, while Rebecca Knight snatched first place from Becky Voris by a mere 1second.

10dog class saw Dori Hollingsworth take first place over Egil Ellis, and Salcha sprinter Arleigh Reynolds finished in front, winning the open class by 1minute and 51seconds over Nathan Sterling who took 2^nd  and then Egil Ellis took 3^rd.

Arleigh Reynolds says the Su valley Championships are the first step towards ending up where he wants to be in a season with two big races coming up in February: the Exxon Mobile Open, and the Fur Rendezvous.

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Full Results:

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4-dog (6miles)

1.Kim Wells 19:03

2.Jennifer sterling 19:18

3.Amy Maclean 19:44

4.Doreen Hadele 20:08

5.Kathy Faryinarz 21:39

6.Melissa Owens 22:40

Skijor (6miles)

1.Rebecca Knight 19:45

2.Becky Voris 19:46

3.Greg Jurek 20:13

4.Emilie Entrikin 20:24

6-dog (8miles)

1.Kim Wells 23:28

2.Ami Gjeston 24:05

3.Bev Stevens 24:33

4.Greg Sellentin 24:53

5.Kris Rasey 25:29

6.Jennifer Sterling 25:30

7.Evelyn Beeter 26:22

8.Melissa Owens 27:31

9.Adam Tindill 28:15

10.Paul Gregory 29:08

10-dog (10miles)

1.Dori Hollingsworth 28:25

2.Egil Ellis 28:58

3.Jennifer Probert 29:03

4.Evelyn Beeter 29:33

5.Jennifer Sterling 30:09

6.Jeff Conn 30:10

7.Marvin Kokrine 32:09

8.Michael Tetzner 34:25

Open (15miles)

1.Arleigh Reynolds 44:37

2.Nathan Sterling 46:28

3.Egil Ellis 47:19

4.Greg Sellentin 48:18

5.Eric Renneberg 48:50

6.Bill Kornmuller 50:00

7.Michael Tetzner 50:08

8.Marvin Kokrine 51:04

9.Mike Fields 55:10