Hollands miss podium at Lake Placid SBX World Cup

LAKE PLACID, N.Y.- Sandpoint native Nate Holland finished 17th overall, and younger brother Pat finished 27th Saturday during the snowboardcross portion of the Visa U.S. Snowboarding Cup at Whiteface Mountain, outside Lake Placid.

U.S. Snowboarding riders Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) and Nick Baumgartner (Iron River, MI) won the men's and women's races.

Holland, a three-time X Games gold medalist, teamed with Sun Valley's Graham Watanabe to lead the U.S. team to a fourth place finish in the first-ever team SBX event.

“Graham was riding killer and it was giving me the open door all the time.” Holland told U.S. Snowboarding.org. “I knew that the final was going to come down to a close heat and he gave it all he could. We'll have to get them next time, that's what the plan is.”

The Visa U.S. Snowboarding World Cup will be broadcast on NBC this Saturday at 11 a.m.