IRA Photos

I'll let John Nicholson and Coach Reischman do the write up on the racing, but here are some images of the 2011 IRA Regatta for your enjoyment.

Thanks to all the SU Coaches for a great season.

Varsity Eight- 22 Hours to Find More Speed

Syracuse's Varsity eight finds itself in a spot that seemed likely all season long - having to finish in the top three among six very tough crews to make a repeat trip to the IRA Grand Final.

After hanging onto the third spot in this afternoon's 2:15 repechage, the Orange is scheduled for semi-final number one at 12:15 Friday. The SU crew is set for the outside - lane six - and up against its Goes Cups foes, Cornell in lane five and Navy in lane one, plus two seed California, four-seed Princeton and six-seed Brown.

After two earlier losses to SU, the Big Red beat the Orange twice on Thursday - by seven seconds in the morning and by less than a second-and-a half in the afternoon. Brown was well ahead of SU in the morning heat and went right through the semis. Cal is...well...Cal and SU has not caught Princeton yet this season. So - as Coach Dave Reischman noted a week or so ago, SU needs to find more speed. And the clock is ticking.

JV Gets Goes Cup Opponents Again, Plus

The Orange second eight goes up against Cornell and Navy in its heat as well, along with Washington and California and Boston University.

SU was second in the morning heat Thursday and moved straight to the semifinal. It's scheduled at 11:45.

V4+ Leads Off: Frosh Will Wait

The Orange Varsity four is in the first heavyweight semi of the day at ten o'clock, and takes on Wisconsin, Washington, Drexel, Temple and Georgetown. The frosh fell to the third level and will race again Saturday against Wisconsin, Penn, Yale and Gonzaga.

Orange Does What It Has To; Gets to Semis

SU's varsity eight jumped out to a lead in this afternoons' IRA repechage but the Big Red of Cornell rowed through them and battled Yale to the finish, edging the Eli by a second with the charging Orange another half second behind. The Orange held off BU without too much difficulty and the third place spot gets it into the upper level semifinals on Friday.

Cornell 5:36.457
Yale 5:37.453
SU 5:37.912
BU 5:38.881
Dartmouth 5:48.166
UCSD 6:00.261

Stanford, Navy and Georgtown advanced to the upper level semis through repechage #1.

Tough Rep for SU Frosh



The Orange freshmen couldn't find what they needed this afternoon and wound up fifth in the repechage, falling to the third level final. Boston University walked away with the rep, with surprising Columbia and Dartmouth bettling for second. The Lions took it and the Big Green also made the semis with the third place finish.


BU 5:44.476
Columbia 5:46.667
Dartmouth 5:47.638
Wisconsin 5:50.891
SU 5:55.349
Penn 6:01:784

V4+ Fights Off Bobble; Jumps to Semis

Syracuse's Varsity Four with cox had moved into a solid lead for the second qulifying spot this morning, when one or two of the oarsmen caught what the race announcer called "a digger" - not quite a crab, but a potential problem. Instead of faltering, the Orange took up the stroke and BU was not able to capitalize. Brown rowed away from the pack to win the heat, and SU took the second spot to earn the afternoon off and a straight shot to Friday's semifinal. Penn wound up taking third from BU by 9/100ths of a second.

Brown 6:14.553
SU 6:25.404
Penn 6:29.300
BU 6:29.393
Harvard 6:32.822

SU Varsity Faces Familiar Foes in Rep: Frosh Too

Repechage #2 for Varsity Eights this afternoon looks a lot like a compilation of the Syracuse Season. After finishing fifth in the morning heat, the Orange will go against Cornell, Dartmouth, BU, Yale and UCSD. The top three move to the semi-finals.

Syracuse beat Cornell in Ithaca and again at the Eastern Sprints, but trailed the Big Red this morning. The Orange lost to BU at home and then defeated the Terriers in the Sprints. SU beat Dartmouth in Syracuse a couple of weeks ago.

SU is the top seed in the repechages at #7, but the fifth place finish this morning consigns the Orange to lane five. Cornell has lane three and Yale, lane four.

The rep is set for 2:15.

The freshman eight goes in repechage #2 at 3:00, up against Penn, Wisconsin, BU, Columbia and Dartmouth. Top three go to the semis - the rest to the third level. The Orange frosh lost to BU March 22 in a 1,000 meter race in awful conditions in Syracuse and beat Dartmouth eleven days ago also at home after beating the Big Green and Columbia in the petite finals of the Eastern Sprints the week before. Wisconsin finished ahead of the Orange in that petite.

Frosh 4th in Heat - Move to Repechage

With Harvard out front and Navy battling Brown for second, the Orange frosh rowed home in fourth place in the morning heat, saving something for the afternoon repechage. Navy wound up holding off the Bruins by the blink of an eye.

Harvard 5:38.791
Navy 5:41.393
Brown 5:41.439
SU 5:59.224
UCSD 6:03.125
Dartmouth 6:13.333

JV Moves to Semis; Yale Suffers

Syracuse's JV eight finished second to Harvard in this morning's second heat and moves directly to the Friday semi-finals. Harvard won the heat from start to finish and it looked as if Yale would be second and SU third, when Yale's shell lost it's steering and the Bulldogs had to stop. That allowed Dartmouth to grab the third qualifying spot and consigned Yale to the repechage.

Harvard 5:44.671
SU 5:49.588
Dartmouth 5:55.874
UCSD 6:17.995
Yale 7:09.836

V8 Trails in Morning Heat - Heads to Repechage

Top-seed Washington blasted off the line and won the first morning heat at the IRA this morning, with six-seed Brown close behind to also move straight to the semi-finals. Seven-seed Syracuse never was really in it with the leaders, although the Orange did battle with #12 Stanford and #13 Cornell through the halfway point. SU wound up fifth in the heat. The SU time was considerably slower than what it is capable of in a tailwind, which is the condition today and Orange fans hope the plan became hanging onto some strength for the afternoon repechage.

Washington 5:32.251
Brown 5:33.726
Cornell 5:40.738
Stanford 5:42.949
SU 5:47.233
Gonzaga 6:06.276

All the favorites moved into the semis - Cal, Wisconsin, Harvard and Princeton joining Washington and Brown.