Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe (9-1 Ivy, 20-3 overall) false-started at the beginning of the race, so it was cautious on the next start and subsequently jumped last off the line when the race officially began...
...Black and White then moved quickly, shaking off Princeton, Cornell and Wisconsin in the first 500 meters to make the race a three-boat contest between Radcliffe, Brown, and Yale...
...heavies soon took the lead, and were up a quarter-length on Brown and Yale through the middle 1000 meters of the race. Brown made its move with about 800 meters to go however, and came even with Radcliffe and pulled ahead in the last 500 to win the race and cop its first Eastern Sprints title...
...everything into the middle part of the race--the weakest part was the last 500," Thompson said. "It was a close, fast race and it was great to beat Yale. We are one-and-a-half seconds faster than we were two weeks ago, so we can get three seconds faster in one month [for the national championships on June 5 in Corning...
...mighty proud of this race," heavyweight Coach Liz O'Leary said. "We raced better than anyone predicted [Radcliffe was seeded number three coming into Sprints], and we'll see what we can do in the next three weeks to beat Brown and Washington and stay ahead of Yale...