The truth is they would have preferred to do even better, but the 2010 SU Varsity Eight did something an SU V8 hadn’t done in 20 years – made it to the Grand Final at the I.R.A. On this blistering hot Saturday, the Orange went after a medal but ran out of gas and finished sixth.
“You want to look back on your last race and say you got everything out of your guys you could,” Head Coach Dave Reischman said afterward. “The varsity left the last bit of everything they had on the water.”
After SU made the Grand Final by holding off BU Friday by .02 seconds, Reischman said he told his varsity, “We’re in the final and we’re going to end up road kill in the third 500 or we’re taking a medal, but we’re going to take our shot at this thing. We took our shot and it didn’t work out.”
“We went physically all out as hard as we could,” senior bow man Ryan Patton said.
“We gave it our all,” senior three man Tyson Bry said.
Cal 5:23.897
Washington 5:24.160
Cornell 5:30.356
Harvard 5:31.106
Brown 5:40.513
SU 5:43.902
JV TAKES PETITE FINAL
After a finishing fourth in the semi-final on Friday, the JV came out fired up Saturday morning and knocked off five good crews to win the petite final. "The guys put together probably the best race I think they’ve had to this point," sophomore coxswain Isaac Budmen said.
In previous races the JV had run into problems in the second thousand meters, so when the Orange crossed the halfway point this time Budmen had a message " I said ‘this is it, let’s take control.’ We took 20 strokes and kind of pushed out about ¾ of a length and they knew they were in control at that point."
Princeton came after the Orange in the final 500 but SU was ready. "We had a nice little pickup with 300 to go," stroke Kynan Reelick said. "a good little ten stroke push there and kept it there and kept going and it got us to the finish."
SU5:44.725
Princeton 5:45.892
BU 5:47.446
Yale 5:47.934
Northeastern 5:52.072
Columbia 5:54.030
FROSH WIN THIRD LEVEL FINAL
You want to win the race you’re in and the Freshman eight found itself in the third level final at this year’s IRA – so that’s the one the Orange won, doing a nice job of holding off Penn at the finish.
"I was proud of these guys for coming back from in their minds what was a disappointment a couple of days ago and racing I think a tough race and flat out just seeing what they’ve got," frosh coach Dave Weiss said.
"It was our goal to make the petite final so it’s a little bittersweet but it gives us something to build on for next year it gives a little motivation," stroke Nick Pickard said.
Cox Matt Cosmann would have liked the chance to make some noise in the petites, but "It’s fun to end the season with a win," he said.
SU 5:53.345
Penn 5:54.234
Northeastern 5:56.283
Yale 6:02.202
Dartmouth 6:10.660
V4 THIRD IN PETITES
The varsity four battled it out in the petites, finishing in the middle of a three boat jam with Penn and Temple a length or so behind winning Yale. The Orange wound up third, edging the Owls, but a beat behind the Quakers.
"I thought it was the best race we had of the four," sophomore two-man James Olson said. "Today we had a good rhythm all the way through and it helped us walk through Temple and George Washington in the middle of the race."
Yale 6:24.573
Penn 6:28.212
SU 6:28.565
Temple 6:28.698
George Washington 6:34.253
Princteon 6:44.270
MASTER’S EIGHT SECOND – RUNS OUT OF WATER CHASING BIG RED.
SU’s master’s eight started about 30 seconds behind Cornell because of the adjustment for average age of the boat (57 to Cornell’s 67) and went flying after the Big Red. But the finish line came about a length too soon and Cornell held on to win it. SU was second, then MIT and a pair of eights from Penn.
"We had a good row," two-man Ted Kakas '64 said. "We just didn’t have enough real estate."
"It was a good piece," said Don Smith '90. "We ran out of space. The course wasn’t long enough."
Staggered Start
Cornell 7:08.215
SU 7:13.506
MIT 7:38.084
Penn B 7:51.405
Penn 7:57.434
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