Varsity (left) and JV Head for the Lake
Syracuse’s eighth-seeded Varsity Eight will start off the
racing at the IRA Thursday, competing in the opening heat against two-seed
Brown, #5 Wisconsin, #11 Yale, #14 Penn and 17-seed Gonzaga. The Orange gets lane two – in between Penn on
the inside and Brown in the middle of the Cooper River. The top two advance to Friday’s semi-finals. The heat is scheduled at 8 a.m.
SU beat Penn in the morning heat at the Eastern Sprints, and
was second to Brown by a length in that heat. Brown then won the Grand Final
with Wisconsin third and SU sixth. The Badgers were just over a length ahead of
SU.
The Orange JV is seeded #9 and also is in the opening heat
at its level in lane two - an 8:45 start
against #3 California,#4 Harvard, #10 BU,
#15 Gonzaga and #16 Drexel.
The JV was third in the Sprints heat a couple of lengths
behind winning Harvard. The Orange then won the Petites, defeating BU. The Orange JV also had beaten BU in Boston
earlier by 2/3 length.
For Shawn Bagnall’s #12 freshman eight, its Heat #2,
scheduled at 9:45. #1 Washington and #6 Brown are the highest seeded crews in
the heat, in lanes three and four. SU is in lane five, between Brown and #18 George
Washington. #13 Yale and #7 Princeton
complete the heat. The Orange frosh lost to the Tiger Cubs by five seconds in a scrimmage back on March 31.
The open four closes the morning racing at 11:15 in Heat #2.
SU takes on California, Drexel, Cornell, Penn and Northeastern. Only the winner
advances to the semi, with the rest in the Thursday afternoon reps. The SU four
defeated Penn at the Sprints, coming in second to Columbia. The crew has not
raced the seeds in this heat, Cal and Drexel.
IRA Seedings here courtesy of row2k.com http://www.row2k.com/ira/2012/2012IRASeedingPoll.pdf
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