The Orange Men's Varsity Eight finished second in this morning's first heat at the San Diego Crew Classic to advance to the grand final of the Copley Cup tomorrow. California won the heat, blasting off the line in lane one at 44 strokes per minute with SU in lane three fighting to keep in contact and BU between them chasing the Orange. The Golden Bears looked smooth as the held on to the lead and finished with just a bit of open water between their shell and SU's. Syracuse repelled a couple of charges by BU to take second and all three qualified for Sunday's top race.
Cal blistered the 2,000 meters in 5:54.62. SU's time was 5:58.82 and BU's 6:00.97. Temple and UCSD trailed.
The other three crews in the Sunday competition will be Brown, Northeastern and Stanford.
Brown started strong in Saturday's heat two, gave up the lead to Northeastern and then rowed through the Huskies to win in 6:00.10. Northeastern's time was 6:03.19 and Stanford's was 6:06.48.
The Grand Final is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. EDT on Sunday (9:30 Pacific) and can be viewed live at http://crewclassic.org/video/
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