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...great to see them bounce back like they did," sailing coach Mike Horn said yesterday. "In the last race we were sailing against Brown. If we had lost, they would have been first and we would have been fourth." Radcliffe finished the Championships with six wins and two losses, Brown with five wins and three losses and third-place URI won four and lost four. The team sailed without Lauren Norten, one of the team's top skippers, who was pressed into service in the MacMillan Cup on the same weekend...
...MacMillan Cup is one of the big-boat races on the college racing circuit. The eight intrepid sailors, led by team captain Steve Strittmaller, sailed two masted 44-ft. yawls. The team had never practiced together on the big boats prior to the official pre-race test run but managed to hang on to second place after the first day of sailing. "We were behind Delaware by eight points and there were two more races to go, which is a huge gap," Horn said. Nevertheless, the team closed the gap in the last two races, sailing well enough to edge...
Harvard sailors also placed first in the Hoyt Trophy, which was contested at Brown on the 14th. King's Point, last year's North American champion, was favored to top the field of ten. The favorites were leading by one point going into the last race, but could not hold onto the lead as Harvard sailed into the sunset with a two point victory and the Hoyt Trophy...
...Crimson sailors also took the Greater Boston Dinghy Championships last weekend in a very close competition. Boston University, M.I.T. and Tufts all tied for second place with 72 points, two points behind Harvard. Briane Keane had two first place finishes, while Will Geffries had "the best racing day of his life," said Horn, taking four first places. Tony Friedrich also won a crucial race in his first major trophy meet...
...CENT IN SURVEY SAY INFLATION IS MAJOR ISSUE FOR 1980 RACE --New York Times, October...