Belmont, MI — Monday, Caledonia took its shortest trip of the season traveling to Cannonsburg to compete in the MHSAA Region 5 Ski Race. It was a big race, with a bunch of great teams from as far north as Cadillac and as far south as the Kalamazoo area. “Regionals are a big test for the teams in our sports, since we don’t all compete together except at this race. We have 13 teams in our region that competed today and our boys team ended up 4th, which is a tough place to end up knowing that the top three teams move on to the state finals.” Coach Petrosky “ Our guys really have worked hard this season and this is a very good team, we just ended up a few points shy of qualifying this time around. The team is pretty young, starting only one senior, so we are optimistic about the future.” The day began with giant slalom and David Potgeter led the way with a state finals qualifying 9th place medal, this will be his second year in a row qualifying for the race on Monday Feb 24th at the Highlands in Harbor Springs. Also scoring for the Scots were Jake Potgeter (22nd), Aidan Brown (27th) and Peter Calhoun (33rd). The afternoon session of slalom was also led by David Potgeter, who earned a 4th place medal while qualifying in slalom for the state finals. It has been five years since a Scot has earned medals in both events at Regionals. Also scoring in slalom were: Peter Calhoun (24th), Jake Potgeter (29th) and Derick Prichard (37th). The Scots were 4th in the overall meet, despite being 5th in each event. Caledonia has two races left in its regular season schedule, the first is the Lake Michigan Ski Conference Championship at Crystal Mountain on Wednesday Feb 19th and the second is the Caledonia Invitational, also at Crystal Mountain on Friday Feb 21st. Potgeter will be racing in the State Finals at The Highlands on Monday Feb 24th. Team SL GS Total 1 EGR 43 43 86 2GR Christian 62 83 145 3West Catholic 86 71.5 157.5 4Caledonia 94.5 91.5 186 5Mattawan/Paw Paw 56 133 189 6Cadillac 102 95 197 7WMichigan Aviation 136 67 203 8Hacket/Vicksburg 127 99.5 226.5 9Spring Lake 147 128 275 10Forest Hills Central 175 140. 315 11 Northview 169 154 323 12 Lowell 141 196.5 337.5 13 Plainwell/TK 179 186.5 365.5