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...Crimson fell behind in the final, it had an admirable performance in its morning heat. Princeton won the heat in 6:00.44 while Navy followed in 6:01.79. Harvard earned the last spot in the Grand Final from the heat, barely trailing Navy in 6:01.85 and beating out Georgetown. The Crimson lost to the Hoyas on April...
...Crimson’s first test will come in its heat against second-seeded Navy, third-seeded Princeton, sixth-seeded Georgetown, tenth-seeded Penn and eleventh-seeded MIT. Harvard beat both the Quakers and the Engineers in the first two weeks of the season, by 3.7 and 10.9 seconds, respectively, but fell to the other three by 9.6, 4.5 and 4.15 seconds, respectively, later in the year. The Crimson will need to beat one of those three, along with Penn and MIT, to earn a berth in the final. Finelli, for one, thinks...
...first and second Harvard freshman boats are seeded sixth and third, respectively. A top-three finish in its heat against second-seeded Yale, third-seeded Penn, seventh-seeded Columbia, tenth-seeded Georgetown and eleventh-seeded MIT will allow the first boat to advance to the final, while the second eight faces second-seeded Cornell, sixth-seeded Penn and seventh-seeded MIT in its opening race...
...adjusted our attitude a lot,” Finelli said. “Before we had been disappointed with how things were going. As a result, up to the Georgetown race, everything was miserable. [On Saturday] we remembered to have fun and to keep our spirits up. Sure enough, we had our best race of the year against two very fast boats...
...boat that raced at Georgetown [had raced on Saturday], we would not have even been on the map,” Finelli said. “We’re still two or three lengths slower than them, but it’s not six or seven. It’s not a joke of a race...