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Each of the five sailors—three women, two men—placed in the top-four of his or her respective division, highlighted by sophomore skipper Vince Porter’s first-place overall finish...
...England Sloop Championships took place in Winthrop, Mass., with Harvard entering the team of sophomore skipper Vince Porter and senior John Mulcahy as his crew. And as anyone in Massachussetts knows, the weather between the days could not have been more disparate. Saturday was sunny with temperatures in the mid-60’s as three of the weekend’s five races took place in an 8-12 knot northeasterly wind. However, the Crimson made a much stronger showing once the weather turned rainy and windy on Sunday, proving that Porter and Mulcahy are capable sailors...
Crimson senior skipper Clemmie Everett paired with freshman Christina Dahman to earn a second-place finish under the difficult conditions in the first race. The duo captured an early lead off the start in the following race, but a shift in the light winds ruined the course layout, causing the race committee to scrap the remaining races...
...laws so that it's now easier for teams to retain possession and launch repeated raids, with the result that spectators at Tests in both hemispheres this year have seen an unusually high number of what most of them like best: tries. "The game's evolved," says All Blacks skipper Thorne. "Teams are a little better at defending than they were four years ago, but they've got much better at finding ways through." So what does it take to win a Cup? "In a way, the planets have to line up," says Farr-Jones. Most importantly, he says...
...some trouble at the starting line,” A-team skipper Philbrick said. “But then we got it going...