Fort Lewis College’s streak of eight consecutive mountain bike team championships ended Sunday in Beech Mountain, North Carolina.
The Skyhawks finished third in the team standings with 662 points, while Colorado won the title with 709.
Marian University out of Indiana finished second with 685.
FLC junior Sofia Gomez Villafane did provide a silver lining, though, winning the women’s individual omnium with 380 points, just edging out Stanford’s Kate Courtney, who had 375.
Villafane finished sixth in the cross country race, sixth in the downhill, competed on FLC’s relay team and was 13th in the dual slalom.
Stephan Davoust also finished second in the men’s individual omnium behind North Carolina’s Luke Vrouwenvelder.
The Skyhawks took third in the team relay in 14 minutes, 447.26 seconds.
Marian won that race in 13:35.98.
Rebecca Gardner took third in the women’s dual slalom in 47.11.
Lindsey Wilson’s Heather Collman won the title.
FLC next will focus its attention on the BMX championships in April and the road championships in May.
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