The Syracuse Varsity, trailing early, battling Columbia through the middle of the race and then sprinting hell for leather, held off a furious charge by Boston University and made it the Grand Finals at the IRA, with a margin of .02 seconds.
Sure, Washington won the heat and Cal was second, but the Orange men, for the first time in 20 years have made the Grand Final!!!!!
Washington 5:32.362
Cal 5:33.617
SU 5:40.111
BU 5:40.131
Columbia 5:45.739
Northeastern 5:48.070
The second heat went to Harvard with Brown just behind, Cornell not even a blink after Bruno for third and edging Dartmouth by half a second.
Harvard 5:37.284
Brown 5:37.786
Cornell 5:37.819
Dartmouth 5:38.371
Yale 5:43.081
Princeton 5:46.523
SU's Varsity eight was in the Grand Final and took the bronze in 1990 under Coach Bill Sanford. This is Coach Dave Reischman's first trip to the Grands with SU.
“We pulled the trigger at the right time," Reischman told suathletics.com. "Sometimes those photo finishes come down to luck and it felt really good to be on the right-side of the line. We were in sixth place early, but our guys kept their composure and made the right move with about 500 meters remaining.” Full suathletics.com story here.
The tenth seeded Orange will face heavily favored Washington, plus two-seed California, three- seed Harvard, five seed Brown and eight seed Cornell in the Grand Final at 12:15.
You can listen here - or come on down to Camden. SU' master's eight kicks off the racing at 7:48 in the morning.
Results courtesy of powerhousetiming.com
Additional info courtesy of row2k.com
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