Orange Men Bring Goes Trophy Back to Syracuse

Under overcast skies with sporadic rain, the Syracuse Varsity Eight out-rowed Cornell and Navy this morning, to win the Goes Trophy for the first time in three years, and keep the Big Red from a “threepeat.”

“It was getting a little too much of a Red tinge to it,” SU Head Coach Dave Reischman smiled after the race. "We'd like to give it a little more Orange tinge for awhile."

Syracuse also won the Stagg Trophy for total points. The Orange and Midshipmen tied, with Navy winning the freshman and JV eights, but the SU win in the varsity race breaks the tie.

SU took second in the freshman and JV races.



Syracuse raced in the inside lane of the Cayuga Lake Inlet, with the home-standing Big Red in lane two and Navy on the outside. All three crews got off to a solid start, but rowing at 38 strokes per minute, higher than planned, Syracuse had edged in front of Cornell at 37 by 500 meters in.

Syracuse opened the lead to about a length by the halfway point, as Navy fell about the same distance behind Cornell. Rowing with the current and a fairly brisk tailwind, Syracuse kept up the pace and while perhaps not as smoothly as Coach Reischman might have liked, the Orange held off Cornell’s effort to catch up in the stretch.

12th-ranked SU held off the 9th ranked Big Red by about a length, and #13 Navy finished third.

Click here for results courtesy of row2k.com

There was no big celebration by the Orange, once the boat crossed the finish line. Coach Reischman caught up with his crew on the water, and after quick congratulations they began going over how to get better.

“It's good to have the win,” senior stroke and co-captain Mike Gennaro said. But the Orange will see Cornell and Navy again at the Eastern Sprints.

"We know we've still got a lot of work to do, and Cornell's got a lot of work to do and so does Navy." The goal, as always is for the Orange to hit its peak at the IRA.

Interviews with Coach Reischman, Coxswain Ken Marfilius and Mike Gennaro here courtesy of suathletics.com. Look on the right side of the screen.

The next crews SU will see are fifth-ranked Boston University and #11 Columbia. BU clobbered Dartmouth and Rutgers today in New Jersey, while Columbia trailed badly against #10 Yale and #16 Penn, in Connecticut.

Syracuse, BU and Columbia go at it at Syracuse next Saturday morning.