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Sunday, March 28, 2010

ORANGE MEN THIRD IN COPLEY CUP FINAL




The Syracuse men’s eight took third in the Copley Cup Grand Final at the San Diego Crew Classic this morning, trailing Cal and Brown, and beating BU, Northeastern and Stanford.

Cal in lane one roared off the starting line at 46 strokes-per minute with the other five crews battling to stay in contact. The Golden Bears rowed the whole race at a high pace after settling at 38. As Stanford fell back, the other four crews spent much of the race just about dead even.

Brown took a shot at Cal at one point but could not get back into it and the Golden Bears won by open water in 5:49.50. At one point it appeared that BU had edged ahead of Syracuse but the Orange fought back, putting on a move in the second 1,000 and while they were not able to catch Brown, they did get pretty close. Brown finished in 5:53.63, SU in 5:56.22 and BU in 5:59.36 with Northeastern just behind the Terriers in 6:00.69. Stanford finished in 6:03.85.


Here’s the lineup Head Coach Dave Reischman had put together heading West.

C – Ken Marfilius, Jr., 5’8”, 130, Collingdale, PA
8 – Mike Gennaro, Jr., 6’ 3”, 189, Havertown, PA
7 – Chris Lutz, So., 6’ 5”, 227, Fairless Hills, PA
6 – Dan Turner, Jr., 6’ 3”, 194, Vankleek Hill, Ontario
5 – Vince Berry, Jr., 6’1”, 193, East Lansdowne, PA
4 – Tyson Bry, Sr., 6’4”, 195, Woodstock, VT
3 – Mike Dietrick, So., 6’ 3”, 192, Orchard Park, NY
2 – Ryan Patton, Sr., 6’ 4”, 194, Signal Mountain, TN
B – Dan Berry, Jr., 6’ 2”, 190, East Landowne, PA

SU is now back to practice until April 17 when the full squad will be at Annapolis to take on Navy and Cornell for the Goes Cup. Reischman said before the trip that there will be more seat racing at home before the lineups are set.

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