IRON MOUNTAIN — The Marquette Senior High School downhill ski teams didn’t miss a beat between performances at MHSAA postseason meets on Monday, easily capturing team titles at the Upper Peninsula Championships meet held at Pine Mountain in Iron Mountain on Monday.

The previous Monday, the Sentinels team qualified for the Division 1 state finals with a top performance at a regional meet downstate at Schuss Mountain near Mancelona, and this Monday, they’ll travel below the Mackinac Bridge again for those finals at Nubs Nob in Harbor Springs.

At Pine Mountain, Sam Dehlin put a stamp on his senior year skiing in the U.P. with another sweep of the boys slalom and giant slalom events.

That led Marquette to a 28-point total in the boys meet, far ahead of runner-up Norway’s 62. Ironwood was third with 95 while Houghton totaled 97.

The Sentinels’ Lucy Stern was nearly as good in the girls meet, winning slalom by more than three seconds and finishing runner-up in GS by less than a half-second.

With Marquette skiers popping up all over the top 10, just like they did in the boys meet, the MSHS girls scored 30 points as Houghton was second with 59 and Ironwood rounded out the field with 93.

Five members of each Sentinels team earned All-U.P. honors at the end of the meet.

For the boys, Dehlin was joined by teammates Ben Kuhl and Conner Henry on the First Team, while Marquette’s Brady Audette and Connor Dunn made the Second Team.

The teams were rounded out by First Teamer Eli Heathman of Houghton, and on the Second Team, Logan Holm of Ironwood and Jack Haeussler of Houghton.

Stern headed up the all-Sentinels delegation on the girls’ First Team, since she was joined by teammates Estelle Dehlin, Madalyn Croney and Ava Stern. Included on the Second Team was Marquette’s Anna Bernard, with the rest of that team including Sophia Ruesch of Norway, Bella Gaiser of Ironwood and Grace Schiltz of Norway.

Here are details from the U.P. Championships:

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Dehlin dominates boys meet

Houghton tried to elbow its way into the top spots in boys slalom, but Dehlin made sure Marquette would be No. 1 in this event with the two fastest runs.

His runs of 29.68 and 29.73 seconds got him the only sub-one-minute, two-run total of 59.41 seconds.

Houghton’s Heathman was runner-up with the only other run under 30 seconds as he made it down the hill in 30.55 and 29.74 seconds for a 1:00.29 total.

Audette was third with runs of 30.37 and 30.93 to total 1:01.30, while Henry was fifth with 31.27 and 31.57 for 1:02.84.

Kuhl finished seventh with runs of 32.36 and 32.94 for 1:05.30 total, then Dunn was eighth with 33.39 and 32.29 for 1:05.68.

Jude Balding was Marquette’s sixth finisher in the top 10, placing 10th with runs of 35.61 and 35.21 for 1:10.82. Teammate Sam Uchytil was 11th with 35.27 and 35.65 for 1:10.92, and the Sentinels’ Jameson Bishop came in 12th with 35.45 and 36.28 for 1:11.73.

In GS, Dehlin had an even bigger margin of victory of just over a second, plus it was teammate Kuhl who came in second.

Dehlin had the fastest time in each run, his times of 27.06 and 26.32 seconds adding up to 53.38. Kuhl had the second-fastest time in each run, 27.57 and 26.99 for a 54.56 total.

After Heathman was third and Ironwood’s Holm fourth, Marquette took the next three spots. Henry was fifth with runs of 28.14 and 27.61 for 55.75, Dunn sixth with 27.70 and 28.58 for 56.28 and Audette seventh with 28.25 and 28.38 for 56.63.

In addition, Balding was 10th with runs of 30.04 and 29.74 for 59.78 seconds, while Uchytil came in 12th with 29.60 and 30.29 for 59.89 and Bishop 13th with 29.40 and 30.93 for 1:00.33.

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MSHS girls display depth

Stern’s victory in slalom was just the icing on the cake for the Sentinels girls, who grabbed five of the top six places in slalom and four of the top six in GS.

Stern had the only sub-33-second runs in slalom to blow the field away by 3.01 seconds. Her runs of 32.84 and 32.89 seconds totaled 1:05.73, while Ironwood’s Gaiser was runner-up with runs of 33.62 and 35.12 for 1:08.74.

Marquette then took the next four places to overwhelm the opposition.

Croney was third with runs of 35.07 and 34.69 to total 1:09.76, Bernard fourth with 34.98 and 34.98 for 1:09.96, Cadyn Grim fifth with 35.42 and 35.90 for 1:11.32 and Lyla Isaacson sixth with 35.88 and 35.50 for 1:11.38.

In addition, the Sentinels’ Jillian Star was 11th with 1:17.60 total, Ruby Burridge 16th with 1:30.10, Layne Johnston 22nd with 1:55.47 and Anna Melka 23rd with 2:00.22.

In GS, Norway’s Ruesch won with the two fastest runs of 28.53 and 28.59 for a 57.12 total. Stern was 0.49 of a second back with runs of 28.78 and 28.83 for a 57.61 total.

MSHS then took three of the next four spots. Croney was third with 28.63 and 29.07 for 57.70, Estella Dehlin fourth with 29.04 and 29.01 for 58.05, and Bernard sixth with 29.58 and 29.67 for 59.25.

Also, Isaacson was 11th with 1:00.42, Ava Stern 14th with 1:02.26, Grim 15th with 1:03.05, Star 16th with 1:04.50, Burridge 21st with 1:08.42, Melka 23rd with 1:15.61 and Johnston 25th with 1:21.71.

Story contents based on an email from Marquette Senior High School head coach Christy Provost. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.