Word: lightweights
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First and foremost among that competition was defending national champion Princeton, but the event also included a surprise race against heavyweight fours when one of the Black and White’s lightweight fours was forced to race in the open division, where it more than held...
Despite that impressive turn of events, the story of the day was the lightweight eight’s sprint against the Tigers in the Grand Finals. Although it lost its first race of the season to Princeton by a narrow margin, Radcliffe made the second meeting even closer...
...addition to the lightweight eight’s success, both of Radcliffe’s fours made the Grand Finals. The team’s lightweight four pulled out a strong fourth place in the finals with a time of 8:31.5, finishing nearly 20 seconds behind Princeton’s A boat but a full second ahead of the Tigers’ B boat...
...highlight of lightweight four racing came in the semifinals, where the team, racing neck-and-neck with Wisconsin for most of the course, pulled ahead with a strong final 500-meter sprint. The Black and White finished in first with a time of 8:23.5, a full two seconds ahead of the Badgers...
...That sixth place] is a phenomenal accomplishment given that we had a lightweight four racing in a heavyweight four event,” Hertz agreed...