A day after winning Lynx Loppet nordic ski titles, Service's Gus Schumacher and West's Molly Gellert won the first AMH Anchorage Cup races of the season.
Both skiers won their races by two seconds.
Schumacher edged Toomas Kollo to win the men's 8.1K freestyle race in 18 minutes, 20.2 seconds Sunday at Kincaid Park.
Gellert won the women's 8.1K in 21:01.5 ahead of second-place Hailey Swirbul.
Aaron Maves and Elizabeth Page were winners in the 5.5K races.
About 140 skiers came out for the races.
[Schumacher, Gellert hold off field to win Lynx Loppet ski crowns]
AMH Anchorage Cup race No. 1
Kincaid Park
Freestyle
8.1K men
1) Gus Schumacher, 18:20.2; 2) Toomas Kollo, 18:22.1; 3) Marcus Deuling, 19:21.8; 4) Peter Brewer, 19:22.1; 5) Tracen Knopp, 19:36.1; 6) Cody Priest, 19:49.5; 7) Zackarias Toresson, 19:50.1; 8) Kenneth Brewer, 19:54.5; 9) Galen Johnston, 20:04.6; 10) Andrew Kastning, 20:52.1; 11) Brandon Herhusky, 20:58.2; 12) Ben Arians, 21:34.9; 13) Gary Snyder, 21:48.2; 14) Andrew Dougherty, 21:49.3; 15) Gavin Kentch, 21:50.1; 16) Brian Kirchner, 21:58.2; 17) Rich Suddock, 22:04.3; 18) Duncan Wright, 22:35.0; 19) Jan Buron, 22:59.6; 20) Kevin Donley, 23:00.5; 21) Troy Fritzel, 23:20.1; 22) Stacey Moon, 23:22.5; 23) Ben Allen, 24:39.4; 24) John Weddleton, 24:41.8; 25) Dan Brokaw, 24:42.3; 26) Maksim Mayer, 24:59.7; 27) Mike Truskowski, 25:13.8; 28) John Mucha, 25:19.1; 29) Rob Witter, 25:34.4; 30) Patrick Carnahan, 25:45.4; 31) Davin Holen, 25:48.3; 32) Neil Brauer, 26:14.6; 33) Rick Rogers, 26:22.7; 34) Bradley Cruz, 26:37.3; 35) Chad Trammell, 26:41.1; 36) Glenn Gellert, 27:21.6; 37) Brian Looney, 27:57.4; 38) David Ward, 28:48.1; 39) Paul Twardock, 29:00.9; 40) Charles Boyle, 30:08.9; 41) Gunnar Knapp, 31:32.0; 42) Luis Sanchez, 38:09.3; 43) Ben Stedman, 39:50.1.
8.1K women
1) Molly Gellert, 21:01.5; 2) Hailey Swirbul, 21:03.8; 3) Hannah Rudd, 21:29.2; 4) Michaela Keller-Miller, 21:55.5; 5) Lauren Fritz, 21:58.9; 6) Casey Wright, 22:19.9; 7) Jenna Difolco, 22:22.6; 8) Natalie Hynes, 22:40.3; 9) Sadie Fox, 23:04.8; 10) Alison Arians, 23:24.5; 11) Rachelle Kanady, 24:46.8; 12) Jaime Bronga, 24:59.3; 13) Karina Packer, 25:41.2; 14) Lupua Oba, 25:52.5; 15) Nadia Dworian, 26:11.5; 16) Julia Ditto, 26:28.4; 17) Mariah Graham, 26:34.3; 18) Tamra Kornfield, 26:59.2; 19) Kari Fritzel, 27:02.0; 20) Julie Hood, 29:09.6; 21) Melanee Stiassney, 29:24.7; 22) Germaine Thomas, 29:32.5; 23) Nora Matell, 29:36.9; 24) Cindy Drinkwater, 29:39.9; 25) Cynthia Decker, 29:51.7; 26) Devon Crawford, 29:58.7; 27) Clare Ross, 30:31.8; 28) Liz Brewster, 30:57.6; 29) Carly Syren, 31:37.5.
5.5K men
1) Aaron Maves, 13:59.5; 2) Kai Caldwell, 15:32.0; 3) Carter Brubaker, 15:52.0; 4) Mark Eggener, 16:02.4; 5) Porter Blei, 17:21.8; 6) Isaac Hermanson, 17:31.4; 7) Eli Hermanson, 17:42.1; 8) Thomas Simono, 17:48.8; 9) Jared Gardner, 18:01.0; 10) Oliver Wright, 18:39.4; 11) Ruari O'Brien-Holen, 19:54.0; 12) Sam Saunders, 19:56.9; 13) Geoff Wright, 21:31.7; 14) Morgan Hartley, 22:16.6; 15) Niko Latva-Kiskola, 22:25.8; 16) Cesar Rodgers, 24:23.6; 17) Elias Soule, 25:17.3.
5.5K women
1) Elizabeth Page, 12:31.8; 2) Quincy Donley, 14:50.8; 3) Caitlin Gohr, 16:34.8; 4) Alison Ulrich, 17:13.6; 5) Sally Hokanson, 17:17.0; 6) Natalie Hood, 17:44.1; 7) Julia Thomas, 18:48.4; 8) Savannah Ulrich, 19:13.4; 9) Marine Dusser, 19:21.1; 10) Berit Meyers, 19:26.5; 11) Alia Parker, 22:06.0; 12) Yukiko Hayano, 22:28.6; 13) Cathy Wright, 22:42.4; 14) Bridget Paule, 23:33.7; 15) Joan Antonson, 23:34.1; 16) Kimberly Ames, 23:42.7; 17) Naomi Kiekintveld, 24:11.5; 18) Zoe Rodgers, 24:23.0; 19) Aurelie Barnel, 24:28.6; 20) Meredith Schwartz, 24:32.5; 21) Nora Hulse, 28:02.7; 22) Robin Kornfield, 30:56.0; 23) Meghan Cavanaugh, 31:03.7.