CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing completed a two-regatta weekend, finishing in fourth place at the Norman Reid Team Race and 11
th at the Open Atlantic Coast Championship – Final.
Norman Reid Team Race | Dorchester, Mass.
The Crimson was represented at the one-day event at Savin Hill Yacht Club by
Max Wolfensberger-
Elizabeth Jacobsson,
Pax Huybers-
Noelle Brighton, and
Xavier Ayala-Vermont-
Julia Downey. The group combined to go 4-6 overall, finishing ahead of host Boston College (3-7) and Boston University (1-9), and behind Tufts (9-1), Roger Williams (7-3) and Brown (6-4).
In first-round action, Harvard went 2-3, defeating Boston College and BU by 2-3-5 margins, and falling 4-5-6 to Brown and Tufts, and 3-4-6 to Roger Williams. In Round 2, the Crimson defeated BU, 1-2-6, and Tufts, 2-3-4, but fell to Brown and RWU, 4-5-6, and to BC, 3-4-6.
Open Atlantic Coast Championship – Final | Cranston, R.I.
Heading south to Rhode Island to compete for the Crimson were A-Division skipper
Harrison Strom (1-4) and
Zoey Ziskind (5-14), and crew
JJ Drummond (1-4) and
Christina Chen (5-14). Harvard's B-Division sailors were
Jacob Posner,
Amelie Zucker (1-5), and Drummond (6-14).
William Bourell served as a reserve.
After a long delay on Saturday due to a lack of wind, the field finally got onto the water and ended with Harvard in 14
th place. The Crimson rallied on Sunday to ultimately finish in 11
th place with 213 points. Yale won the regatta with a 107.
Harvard's A-sailors struggled with the conditions, posting just one single-digit finish – a ninth-place performance in Race 2. They ended with a score of 133. The Crimson's B-Division sailors, however, finished strong after a slow start. The group's first five races ended with a line of 8-12-13-10-15. The final five starts, meanwhile, were much stronger, going 7-1-4-1-9, helping it register an 80, which was the seventh-best performance in the division.
Up Next
Harvard is slated to compete at the one-day Terrier Invitational (Oct. 31), and the two-day (Oct. 31-Nov. 1) Victorian Urn Trophy (Dartmouth host), Schell Trophy (Vermont host) and Nickerson Trophy (Tufts host).
