Word: skippering
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...Green a third-place finish, while Yale took the last spot at nationals with 177 points in fourth place. Brown rounded out the top five with 186 points. “Just like the past few weekends, our main goal was to qualify for nationals,” senior skipper Clay Johnson said. “Winning would have been nice, but we wanted to sail conservatively, taking few risks, and be consistent at the top of the fleet.” Both boats did just that, finishing in the top three of their respective divisions. In A, Johnson...
...recruits include freshmen rowers Molly Tarrant, Amanda Pfabe, Lani Skipper, Lizzy Majzoub, Medha Khandelwal, Laura Horton, Grace Hollowell, Laurel Gabard-Durnam, and junior coxswain Brady Mellett. Whereas most of the rowers on the varsity boats have rowed with each other a year of more, the entire novice eight boat, as freshmen, was put together from scratch. That the team could become so dominant in such a short time is quite unusual given that none of the players had ever rowed together in the same boat...
...Rhode Island, Boston University, Brown and MIT from contention. Though eight schools remained, it had already become clear that the regatta would end up being a four-team competition.“As the regatta progressed, it was apparent that four teams were equally good,” senior skipper Clay Johnson said.Another round robin eliminated Tufts, the Coast Guard Academy, Roger Williams and Connecticut College, leaving four teams—Yale, Dartmouth, Boston College and Harvard—to battle for just three nationals spots.“It was very touch and go as to who was going...
...Donnell Field for a second doubleheader on Sunday.Harvard will once again look to its pitching staff and its Ivy League leading 4.52 combined ERA to guide the team to victory, although Walsh may not use the Crimson’s standard weekend rotation.While the Harvard skipper normally sends out freshman Max Perlman and junior Brad Unger on Saturdays, followed by rookie Eric Eadington and junior Shawn Haviland on Sundays, Walsh expects to mix it up this weekend due to the significance of this particular series.He plans to use Eadington out of the bullpen Saturday and possibly even Sunday and then...
...happen to be a (wildly under-informed) believer that extra work is good for building arm strength, but if Yale skipper John Stuper doesn’t want to run out an 19-year-old starting pitcher on two days’ rest, I’m not going to eat his lunch...