However, the Big Green's Swift bested the field again with a combined time of 2:01.27, winning easily by .93 seconds.
"The weather was gorgeous on Saturday," Marshall said. "But by the second run the course had gotten pretty rutty."
Junior Catherine Chen led the Harvard women, finishing 58th with a combined time of 2:31.57.
With this winter's relatively warm weather and the lengthy travel time, Harvard has had only a minimum of training on the snow. In December, the team trained three times at Blue Hill, their home mountain. In January, the Crimson had only one weekend of skiing before the competition.
The team has used a variety of dry land training to supplement the lack of snow training.
However, the fresh powder that New England has received in the past two weeks will improve the Crimson's training opportunities.
"I thought we did pretty well for our first race considering we haven't had a lot of practice time," Myers said.
Now that the Crimson has the first race of the season under its belt, the skiers will return to action Saturday and Sunday. They will travel to Stowe, Vermont for the UVM Winter Carnival, where they will face many of the same New England teams.