Strong Showings Highlight Sailing's Weekend

In its second week of in-season competition, the Harvard sailing team continued to show off its strong boatmanship. The team participated in five highly competitive regattas throughout New England this past weekend.

“We could have done better [this weekend] in some regattas, but we did nicely in others,” junior Adam Brodheim said.

The Crimson earned four top-10 finishes and one 12th-place finish in its races at MIT, Boston University, King’s Point, Dartmouth, and Boston College.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY INVITATIONAL

In the final Charles River regatta of the weekend, Harvard finished third out of eight teams with 123 points. Only the Brown Bears and BU prevailed over the Crimson, scoring 46 and 109 points respectively.

Rookie Bennette Capozzi sailed with Brodheim; the twosome claimed third in the A division.

“Our starts definitely need a bit of work … the easiest way to win is to be first from the beginning,” Brodheim said.

B division freshmen William Bloxham and David Mened joined Capozzi and Brodheim at the Invitational, earning a fifth place title in the division with 71 points.

BOSON HARBOR INVITATIONAL

In Harvard’s weakest showing of the weekend the team’s 178-point total put it in 12th place out of the 17 teams competing in this regatta hosted by Boston College.

The freshmen duo of Matthew Mollerus and Victor Kamenker represented the Crimson’s A division. The pair ended the regatta with a first and second place finish.

Tufts ultimately finished on top, scoring a total of 68 points for the regatta.

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At the first ever two-fleet regatta on Mascoma Lake, the women of the Harvard Sailing team finished eighth out of 16 teams.

Teammates Caitlin Watson and Kristina Jakobson finished in the top five in three races to place 11th in the division. Upperclassmen pair Morgan Russom and Ashleigh Inglish competed in the B division and ended the day in sixth-place with six top-five finishes.

The Crimson put up a total of 279 points. Fellow Ivy League schools Yale, Dartmouth and Brown finished in the top three spots.

64th NEVINS TROPHY

The Crimson, in its best race of the weekend, finished second out of 20 teams in his New York regatta hosted by Kings Point.

“We’re very pleased with the performance of our freshman Juan Perdomo…. We hadn’t seen him sail in a collegiate-style competition yet,” O’Connor said.

Perdomo won the C division despite his lack of experience in sailing 420s. He finished top-five in all ten races in which he competed.

“I’ve been working with coaches who have really been helping me with the technical aspect of the boat…. I’ve also been practicing with [sophomore] Marek Zaleksi,” Perdomo said.

O’Connor was pleased with sophomores Jake Bradt and Brian Drumm’s execution as well; the pair finished in third in the B Division.

Drumm was unable to compete in the Yale regatta the previous weekend, and Bradt was pleased with his season debut, titling him “one of [the team’s] most consistent players.”

Freshmen Julia Lord and her partner, junior Graham Slatterly sailed to 12th place in the A division.

The final results were close, with Stanford totaling 55 points, Harvard and College of Charleston both earning 69 points, and Brown putting up 70 points.

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Harvard overcame the strong winds Saturday and finished 10th of the 17 teams who competed at this regatta hosted by MIT and Boston University. The three-division regatta took place on the Charles giving the Crimson the home advantage over a number of competitors.

In the A Division, junior Michael Drumm and senior Isabel Ruanne surprised head coach Michael O’Connor by performing below their potential as seen in previous regattas.

“They played well the weekend before at Yale,” he said.

In the B division, sophomores Andrew Mollerus and Sydney Karnovsky, got third place in their division thanks to a first-place finish and three second-place finishes.

Sophomore Mareks Zaleski and freshman Emma Wheeler competed in the C division. The pair scored 167 points overall.

Boston College, Yale, and the U.S. Naval Academy finished top three in the regatta.