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Rowing on glass-smooth Lake Waramug, Conn., with a slight tailwind, the heavies turned in one of their best performances this season, succumbing late in the race to stronger crews from Yale (first in 4:53.3), Princeton and Boston University. Stroking at a high cadence and finishing the last 500 meters of the course rowing both two power twenties and upping the cadence on beat every ten strokes, the heavies staved off a fierce University of Pennsylvania boat to bury any doubts about their sixth-place seed coming into the race...
Both Harvard and Navy, helped by the slight tailwind, finished in excellent times (5:40.4 and 5:42.7) for the 2000-meter course. The Harvard time was just over the course record by a few tenths of a second, while both times would have broken the course record for the Charles...
...race--if you could call it that--was frustrating." Soghikian added. "After the start we were ahead a little, but at 300 meters we came out of a cove and we hit rough water. We had a rolling wake hit us from behind, a tailwind kick up the whitecaps, and a cross current from the bouncing waves from an adjacent seawall hit us--all at the same time...
...think we really got it together and held our own pretty well." Suzanne Hassel, captain of the lights, said. "We lengthened our stroke because of the tailwind and outsprinted them at the end," she added...
...time Harvard untangled itself, only the humongous squad from Washington, which averages out at 6-ft. 5-in., 200 pounds, and the Eli were still battling for first. Washington surmounted the conditions--a 20-mile-per-hour tailwind causing whitecaps--to stroke to a record-setting time for the course...