Northeastern wins in Philly; SU V8 Third

A tough Saturday morning in Philadelphia for the SU Women. The Northeastern Huskies took the Varsity eight race and with it the Orange Challenge Cup, with Penn rowing through Syracuse in the last 500 meters to take second place.

SU’s Third Varsity Eight was second in its race, holding off Northeastern down the stretch in a race Penn won by open water.


The Quakers won the 2V and Varsity 4-A and Northeastern was first in the V4-B.
SU trailed in all three races.

Penn’s on-line announcer described it as a beautiful but blustery day on the Schuylkill River with a quartering tail wind. That changed later to a head wind.

Northeastern took the early lead in the Varsity Eight race with SU staying in contact through the halfway point and holding a bow-to-stern lead on Penn.

But as the Huskies moved to an open water lead with about 650 meters left, Penn began moving on Syracuse. The Quakers pulled even and then moved through the Orange and crossed the finish line about half a length ahead.

Times here courtesy of row2k.com.

Syracuse races next Saturday (April 17) in Boston – the Charles River Challenge/O’Leary Cup with Dartmouth and Radcliffe the opponents.