THE MEN’S CREWS OPEN THE SEASON WITH
A DUAL RACE AGAINST ST LAWRENCE
The men’s
crews opened their season with hard fought races against St Lawrence on the
city course on the Genesee River.
After a productive
spring break a camp Bob Cooper located on Lake Marian in South Carolina, the
crews returned to winter conditions in Rochester. Another week of training on
the ergometers and in the weight room was a necessary evil to get us to our
first competition. Thankfully, the conditions
improved on Friday allowing us to get one row on the water. Our first and only
row on the Genesee before the Saturday race against St Lawrence University.
The first
race, the novice 4 with UR’s true novices racing a St Lawrence Crew with 2
experienced freshmen in the boat. The
UR’s four put in a game effort but they were beaten by the more experienced St
Lawrence Crew. The UR novice crew consisted of:
Stroke: Justin Fraumeni, 3) Austin Baily, 2) Zach Kaye and Aaron Lim at
bow.
The Varsity
race was a combined 1V and 2V with UR and St Lawrence having a 1V and 2V
each. In the 1V race St Lawrence took an
early lead and were up by about 4 seats through the 1000 meter mark where the
UR challenged by moving back a few seats.
Ultimately the rough conditions proved the undoing of the yellow jackets
crew and St Lawrence won by about a half of a length.
The UR 2V rowed an excellent race and moved away from the St Lawrence crew from the start. Ultimately finishing some 9 seconds behind the UR 1V and 10 seconds ahead of St Lawrence’s 2V.
UR men’s coach, John Bernfield, was reasonably pleased with the results: He stated that “the crews rowed as well as could be expected considering the rough conditions and the relative lack of water time”. He pointed out that while there is great intersquad competition for the 1V we have 4 freshmen and 5 sophomores competing in the first two boats. “That lack of experience and long term training will hurt us early on in the season,” he added.
The lineup
for the 1V is: Brett Chenoweth, Cox, 8) Jared Freedman, 7) Mat Johnson, 6) Mark
Stoessel, 5) Bill Li 4) Ethan Dimmoch, 3) Dave Mullin, 2) Henry Druschel and 1)
Keith McCuthchen.
The lineup
for the 2V is: Addison Ault, Cox, 8) Zach Dean, 7) Joe Prosack, 6) Gavin
Piester, 5) Jeremy Warner, 4) Rob Dowd, 3) Alex Crawford, 2) Matt Ma and Jon
Curtis at bow.
Unfortunately,
the planned Sunday race with Canisus and Franklin and Marshall was cancelled
because of a 6 inch snow fall on Saturday night. No makeup date has been set at this point.
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