Six races, six victories.
The women's crew program sent the open team to Lake Carnegie and the lightweights up I-95 to Cambridge, Mass.
Every squad returned to Shea Rowing Center victorious, adding even more luster to the Princeton crew name.
The open team saw both the Varsity Eight and Varsity Four race to victory at home with a light and variable headwind over Penn and George Washington. Water conditions were good.
The Tigers' Varsity Eight won with a time of six minutes, 36.4 seconds, while the Quakers were second at 6:42.3 and the Colonials lagged behind both Ivy League schools, finishing with a time over seven minutes.
The Varsity Four had similar success, finishing at 7:44.5 with Princeton B and Penn in their wake all morning. Both Tiger boats beat the Quakers by over 20 seconds.
The team will be seeded second for Eastern Sprints, the biggest event of the year for Princeton, based on the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges coaches poll as of yesterday. Cornell is ahead of Princeton.
Chasing Providence
The EAWRC seeded the Tigers' First Varsity Eight boat second, behind Brown. Princeton's Second Varsity Eight boat was also seeded second, again trailing the Bears.
The showdown at Sprints should be between the highly-ranked Ivy League rivals.
The novice open crews also had a solid weekend on Lake Carnegie, winning all of their races. The first boat, which beat Penn by 18 seconds and the Colonials by 26 seconds, will be seeded third, edging out Brown 47-48 points (lower is better in the voting system). Princeton's second novice boat will be the only top seed for the women's open rowers of Old Nassau. It beat out Cornell for the honor.
Prince
On the lightweight side, the Tigers rowed through a strong headwind Saturday morning to victory on the waters of the Charles River in Massachusetts. Princeton beat out Radcliffe, earning the Class of 1999 Cup for its efforts.
The Varsity Four easily won the race, clocking in at 9:13.9, nearly 12 seconds ahead of the Crimson and beating MIT by over a minute.
The Varsity Eight had closer races against the Bostonians. The Tigers won the race at 7:49.1, while Radcliffe finished at 7:53.2 and MIT posted a respectable 8:04.2 for last place.
Both the lightweight and open teams head to the Eastern Sprints Sunday in Camden.
While most of Princeton's boats are seeded second for the EAWRC championships, not first, the Tigers hope that they can continue their perfection from one weekend to the next.
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