Rowing Information | Race Highlights: April 13-14

Platt Cup: Within the closest light-weight males’s race of the season to date, #2 Princeton defeated #3 Cornell to reclain the Platt Cup for the fist time since 2018. Although the Huge Purple received the 2V and 3V races, the Tigers got here by way of the place it counted, profitable the V8 race by simply 1.2 seconds. Race particulars right here.

The Tigers take residence the Platt Cup!!!

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— Princeton Lights (@TigerLights) April 13, 2024

UVA Invite: The #1 Stanford, #4 Cal, #5 Yale, #11 Virginia, and #17 Oregon State ladies battled throughout two days of racing on Lake Monticello this previous weekend. Each Stanford and Cal got here away from the weekend undefeated, although the Pac-12 rivals didn’t race one another immediately. Whereas the Bears defeated the Cavaliers by 10 seconds within the V8 on Sunday, the Cardinal defeated the identical crew on Saturday by an unbelievable 17 seconds. UVA head coach Kevin Sauer instructed UVA Athletics, “Stanford appears to be one of many quickest within the nation proper now.” Full outcomes right here.

📹 from at the moment’s UVA Invite at Lake Monticello! 🔶⚔️🔷 #GoHoos pic.twitter.com/9fzMe88TpM

— Virginia Rowing (@UVARowing) April 14, 2024

Mercer Invite: Sunday noticed high junior crews from throughout the Mid-Atlantic area, and past, take to Lake Mercer for the Mercer Invitational. On the ladies’s aspect, Greenwich got here away with the win within the 1V8+ race however had been pushed by Saugatuck who completed solely 4 seconds behind. This can be a massive turnaround from the final time these crews raced on the 2023 Youth Nationals the place Greewich beat Saugatuck by almost 20 seconds within the semifinal, sending Saugatuck to the B last and advancing to second place within the A last. On the boys’s aspect, Greenwich defeated St. Joe’s Prep by three seconds, an equivalent margin to the one which separated these two crews finally 12 months’s Youth Nationals within the B last. Full outcomes right here.

#2 Tufts Girls defeat #1 Wesleyan: On Saturday, simply outdoors of Boston, the #2 Tufts ladies defeated top-ranked Wesleyan, #4 Bates, and #5 Wellesley, the defending DIII Nationwide Champions. The Jumbos accomplished the clear sweep, defeating all opponents within the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth varsity eights. Extra race particulars might be discovered right here.