Dartmouth Wins 50th Packard Cup: SU Takes Three of Four but not V8

Topher Bordeau’s Varsity Eight proved this morning its performance at the Eastern Sprints was no fluke, beating the Orange again by a bit over half a length in fast conditions on the Connecticut River. Dartmouth rowed the race at a high rate as it had in Worcester – 38 strokes per minute for much of the course – with SU understroking at about 34 ½. The Big Green opened about a half length lead with a move at the halfway point and in spite of cranking it up to 38 the Orange crew was not able to catch them. The Big Green took it in the ridiculously fast time of 5:31.3. Syracuse finished in 5:34.5.

Dartmouth wins the Packard Cup for the first time in five years in the 50th edition of the competition.

Cox Ken Marfilius
Stroke Mike Gennaro
7 Chris Lutz
6 Dan Turner
5 Vince Berry
4 Tyson Bry
3 Mike Dietrick
2 Ryan Patton
B Dan Berry



SU JV8 Wins

Syracuse’s JV eight opened up a length lead on Dartmouth by the halfway point and withstood a push by the Big Green in the third 500 to win by open water. SU understroked Dartmouth all the way down – keeping it around 33 ½ - 34 while the Big Green raced as high as 38.


Syracuse covered the course in 5:40.2 to 5:50.7 for Dartmouth.


Cox Jack Mutty
Stroke Kynan Reelick
7 Steve Connors
6 Chris Bickford
5 Nemanja Bogdanovic
4 Tim Daigle
3 Clai White
2 Aidan Barrett
B Peter Kruse

Frosh Win Easily
The SU Frosh understroked the Big Green all the way down the course but won the race by open water. Syracuse kept it around 31 or 32 strokes per minute and only went up to 33 or 34 as Dartmouth pushed up to 38 down the stretch. The Orange won it by open water. SU's time was 5:47.0 with Dartmouth at 5:54.6

Cox Matt Cosman
Stroke Nick Pickard
7 Mason Leasure
6 Brendan Murphy
5 Kyle Rogers
4 Tyler Toporowski
3 John Redmond
2 Harrison Taylor
B James Tracy


3V4 wins first race of the day.
The Orange got off to a good start with a dominating win by the varsity four over Dartmouth. SU understroked the Big Green but after grabbing a lead off the start, SU opened to a length and then open water by the 1,000 meter mark.

It was the second consecutive win for the Varsity four, which won last week at the Eastern Sprints. SU - 6:24.9 Dartmouth 6:48.6

Cox Isaac Budmen
Stroke Matt Hopeck
3 Chip Keyes
2 James Olson
B Jim Behr

Photos by Tracy Smith, Tom Darling

Times courtesy of row2k.com