NORBA series finals - NE

Mt Snow, Vermont, USA, August 27-28, 2005

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Race 4 - August 28: Downhill

Overall titles to Pruitt & Graves

Presaging its domination in the short-track cross-country, the Luna team's gravity component closed out the NORBA National series with success as Kathy Pruitt (Lake Almanor, Calif.) added an overall downhill title to her win in Saturday's dual slalom.

Entering with just a 19-point lead in the overall standings ahead of Bernardita Pizarro Lazo of Chile, Pruitt was in position to claim a series title having only to stay within a couple of places of Lazo in the series finale.

On Sunday, Lazo descended to a win in the women's downhill, clocking a time of five minutes, 10.6 seconds to claim the win, but a second place finish by Pruitt locked up the series title with a slim eight-point margin.

In the men's downhill, Americans Duncan Riffle (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Cody Warren (Alpine, Calif.) pulled a one-two punch to take the top two spots, but third-place finisher Jared Graves (Aus) clinched the overall series title to go with his mountain cross title.

Riffle clocked a time of 4:28.5 to post the fastest mark by a second and a half over Warren's 4:30.0.

Results

Women
 
1 Bernardita Pizarro Lazo (Chi)
2 Kathy Pruitt (USA)
3 Dawn Borque (USA)
4 April Lawyer (USA)
5 Joanna Peterson (USA)
 
Men
 
1 Duncan Riffle (USA)
2 Cody Warren (USA)
3 Jared Graves (Aus)
4 Andrew Neethling (USA)
5 Joel Panozzo (Aus)

Final series standings

Women
 
1 Kathy Pruitt (USA)
 
Men
 
1 Jared Graves (Aus)