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Their A boat teammates, Ryan Byrne and Sarah McCuskee, also fared well on the waters, notching fourth place in the A division and scoring two first-place finishes in the process...
Maryland’s gentle winds weren’t quite as kind to the women’s team as they had been to the coeds, as the squad took 15th place at St. Mary’s College...
Lambert skippered her A boat to 14th place, the higher of the two women’s team finishes. But despite the team’s disappointment, the weekend was not without bright spots, as Lambert and freshman Alma Lafler took second in the weekend’s third race...
...boat, skippered by captain Liz Powers and crewed by sophomore Marie Appel, also notched a second-place finish in the sixth race. Powers and Appel were able to improve over the course of the weekend, moving from 16th and 17th place finishes in the early races to top 15 finishes in later ones...
...might sigh at a passage like the following from “Under the Cloth;” “They cross the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey and go north on the Palisades Parkway to Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs.” The cacophony of place names does nothing to move the essay along, and it might be argued that such attention to detail crosses the line into self-indulgence. However, this trademark specificity is what gives these pieces their grounding...