CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing continued its fall schedule this past weekend with four regattas along the East Coast. The Crimson finished in seventh place at the Open ACC – Round 1 and Long Island Sound Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta, ninth place at the Stu Nelson Trophy and 14^th place at the Sister Esther Whalen Trophy.

Open Atlantic Coast Championship – Round 1 | St. Mary's City, Md.

Harvard finished the two-day regatta in seventh place, posting a score of 203. Stanford won the 17-team event with a 108. The Crimson was represented in the A-Division by Harrison Strom, Zia Zucker (1-10, 13-14) and Peyton Hadfield (11-12), and in the B-Division by Jacob Posner (1-10) and Kate Danielson (11-14), with Amelie Zucker serving as crew. William Bourell was on site as a reserve.
 
Strom and Z. Zucker produced a mixed bag of results over the first 10 races, registering single-digit finishes five times, which included four top-4 performances and a win in Race 6. The duo ended with an 8-9. Strom and Hadfield, meanwhile, went 16-5 in their two outings. All told, Harvard's A-team recorded a 114.
 
Posner and A. Zucker had six top-7 performances, winning Race 2 and coming in second place in Races 4, 7, and 9. In the final four races Danielson served as skipper, the Crimson posted a line of 7-10-2-4, helping it turn in a B-Division score of 89.

Stu Nelson Trophy | New London, Conn.

Harvard finished in ninth place with a three-division score of 119 at the 16-team regatta. Brown emerged victorious with a 60. Zoey Ziskind-Christina Chen, Grace Montgomery-JJ Drummond and Louise Martin-Noelle Brighton competed for the Crimson in the A-, B-, and C-Divisions, respectively.
 
The regatta was incomplete to the say the least, with four races contested in the A- and C-Divisions, and five in the B-Division. Ziskind-Chen turned in a four-race line of 10-7-3-8 for a 28, while Montgomery-Drummond went 7-15-8-3-7 (40). Martin-Brighton rounded out the group with a score of 51 (14-13-14-10).

Sister Esther Whalen Trophy | Newport, R.I.

The Crimson came in 14^th place at the two-day, 17-team regatta. Harvard finished with a score of 235, at an event that was won by Roger Williams (58). Max Wolfensberger was joined by Mizuki Yashiro in the A-Division, while Ross Wilson and Whitney Pickett took on the B-Division competitors.
 
Outside of Races 2 and 7, Wolfensberger-Yashiro navigated the waters well, notching top-8 performances in the other eight outings. The duo started with a runner-up performance in Race 1 and had strong third-place efforts in Race 3 and 8, helping it earn a score of 72. Wilson-Pickett, meanwhile enjoyed their best finish in Race 3, coming in 13^th place. They turned in a score of 163. 

Long Island Sound Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta | Larchmont, N.Y.

Led by skipper Xavier Ayala-Vermont, Harvard finished in seventh place in the ORC Division with a score of 45.0. Michigan came in first among the seven-team field, earning an 11.0.
 
The Crimson's best finish came in the fourth round when it ended in fifth place. Harvard rounded out the seven-round regatta with a pair of sixth-place efforts.

Up Next

Harvard has a relatively quiet weekend coming up, with just two regattas on the schedule. The Crimson is schedule to compete at the Women's Atlantic Coast Championship – Final (St. Mary's host) and Captain Hurst Trophy (Dartmouth host). Both are slated for Oct. 17-18.