NEWRY - This time, it wasn't even close.

After flying out to a 1-2-3-9 finish in Monday's giant slalom, the Telstar girls' alpine ski team again placed four skiers in the top 10 in Tuesday's slalom to ski away with its second consecutive Class C title.

"We were confident that all the girls could finish, for sure," Telstar coach Annie Reis said. "They've been doing a great job in training, and they worked very hard all season."

Sam Largess won the slalom, one day after earning gold in the GS. Julia Stambolis finished third, Tara Cowin finished eighth and Morgan Lee came in at No. 10.

"We just go," Telstar's Jen DeNormandie said. "It's that simple."

"We needed to make sure we stayed aggressive in the second run," Stambolis added.

Freeport, which trailed Telstar by just 21 points after the giant slalom, struggled in the slalom and earned 69 points for a total of 105. The Rebels' combined total was 37.

Perhaps the only suspense coming out of Telstar's camp Tuesday was from Largess, a sophomore and the team's top finisher. Largess won the GS on Monday with relative ease, beating teammate Tara Cowin by nearly four combined seconds.

Tuesday, Largess trailed Freeport's Hillary Moore by a half second after the first run.

"I knew I needed to do something different to be faster," Largess said. "I tried to attack the course even more."

She got what she was looking for. Largess turned in a time of 39.02 seconds her second time through, the fastest of any racer in the second session, to earn another first-place award.

The win caps a solid season for the Rebels, who had an eye on defending their title from the first flake of snow last fall.

The team's 68-point win in the alpine events also give the nordic team hope for an overall title.

For one day, at least, the Lakers were thinking big.

"We were excited, we weren't expecting it completely," Rangeley coach Dustin Duchesne said. "But two points up on Freeport may as well be a tie. That's not a major lead."

Freeport did pass the Lakers on Tuesday, but so did a dark horse contender the Falcons even forgot about until the end of Tuesday's second run: Central Aroostook.

Central Aroostook rebounded from a 61-point performance in the giant slalom on Monday with a 49-point day Tuesday. Freeport, meanwhile, lost a top-four skier to a fall, and Central Aroostook edged the Falcons by one point for the overall alpine title.

"The effort was there," Freeport coach Eric Wallace said. "There's no complaints there. (Christo Milholland, Freeport's fallen skier) was super for us all season. He'd never raced gates before, and he was finishing top-15 in WMC meets all season. He was huge, and we know he gave it all he could today."

One bright spot for Freeport came at the top. Tommaso Rondi blitzed the rest of the field for a second straight day and captured the slalom individual title, one day after earning gold in the GS.

Rangeley started the day two points better than the Falcons at 43 points, but took 79 Tuesday for a total of 121, good for third place.

"We had a lot of young skiers out there today," Duchesne said. "The younger skiers aren't as into the harder snow."

Fort Kent also had a strong showing in the slalom Tuesday, but had too much ground to make up after Monday's results.

The Falcons are in good shape in the race for the overall title, with a strong nordic contingent racing in today's final event at Black Mountain. Class C skiing finishes today at Black Mountain, while Day 2 of the Class A meet is also under way at the Rumford ski area. Class A concludes its meet on Thursday, the same day Class B begins at Sunday River and Black Mountain.