As if we needed another reminder that crew is not for the faint of heart - even if you're listening from hundreds of miles away - Cornell held off the SU Varsity eight by a split second early this morning to win the Goes Cup for the second year in a row. The official time posted said it was less than half a second and Navy Associate Head Coach Rob Friedrich said in that posting it was even closer. Navy trailed a couple of lengths behind.
Friedrich described the conditions in Annapolis as marginal. In fact they were so bad that the referee canceled the JV race about 500 meters in with crews taking on water and the freshmen never got to race.
The Orange came into the race ranked fifth in the US Rowing Collegiate Poll with Cornell at #10.
No doubt there will be a change next week but the Orange and Big Red will see each other again at the Eastern Sprints and Head Coach Dave Reischman has said all along that the team shoots for the Sprints and the IRA.
Just a week or so ago, Reischman said in an email to SU Crew supporters, "It is going to be an interesting Sprints this year with 8 or 9 crews in the hunt for medals." There was more proof of that today.
In addition to Cornell's edging of #5 Syracuse, #3 Brown had to row a record time to beat #8 Northeastern by just over a second. #9 Boston University edged #14 Dartmouth by less than a second. #7 Yale outrowed #12 Columbia by about half a length in Philadelphia with Penn trailing. And #6 Princeton was in contact with #4 Harvard more than halfway through when the Tigers lost their rudder mechanism. The Princeton bow hit the Crimson stern and broke off, forcing the Tigers to stop rowing, according to a post on row2k.com by MIT's Coach Tony Kilbridge. MIT was well back in the race and finished second.
The Orange travels to the New York City area next to take on Columbia and BU on Saturday.
Results courtesy of row2k.com
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