SU Coach Dave Reischman has been quoted a couple of times as saying there were eight or nine crews that could medal in the Varsity Eights at the Eastern Sprints. He might have been two or three short in that estimation.
Here’s what the seeds mean – which heat and lane you get – perhaps more importantly on this breezy Sunday in Worcester – whom you get to race and maybe upset...or be upset by. Just ask Dartmouth and Columbia. Just ask Syracuse and Yale.
#1 Brown, #2 Harvard, #4 Wisconsin and #5 Princeton made it to the Varsity Eight Grand Final as expected. #3 Yale and #6 Syracuse…not so much. Yale was victimized by #9 Columbia’s surge to a photo finish, which saw Wisco hang onto second by an eyelash. SU was stunned by #12 Dartmouth’s best race of the year – a wire-to-wire win over #1 Brown, which hung on for a close win over the late-charging
Orange in third.
Oh - and we all know you can't compare times from heat to heat. So it doesn't matter that SU's time was faster than the winning crew's in the other two heats.
So we have a Petite final that features the three and six seeds along with #7 Northeastern, #8 Cornell #10 BU and #11 Navy.
Imagine the old days of the IRA with all 12 of these crews side by side across a lake. We can dream.
And as I post this - Yale beats the SU JV in the Petite Final by nine-hundreths of a second. Augghhh!!! More from Joe Paduda above.
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