The women’s open crew, though, was able to end its regular season on a happier note. In defeating Tennessee during Saturday’s race, the crew solidified its first perfect season since 2006, finishing 12-0.
Racing on its home water at Lake Carnegie, the women’s open crew finished just over 12 seconds ahead of the Volunteers with a time of 6 minutes, 18.0 seconds.
A perfect season is nothing new to the crew, as the Tigers have made a habit of excellence. Since the program’s founding in 1972, the women have claimed 11 perfect seasons, most recently in 2006.
That year saw Tiger victories in both the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges Sprints and the NCAA finals. The women’s open crew will head to the EAWRC Sprints on May 18 in Cherry Hill, N.J.
In their final regular season race before the annual Eastern Associations of Rowing Colleges Sprints, the men’s lightweights lost their 20-race-long winning streak and their chance at another perfect season. Saturday’s race in Princeton against Harvard and Yale saw the Crimson take a razor-thin victory.
In the first race, Harvard finished in 5:40.7, with the Tigers only 0.7 seconds behind. Yale trailed Harvard by 12 seconds to take third. Princeton took a comfortable victory in the second-varsity race and Yale won the third.
The Tigers were favorites entering the weekend. Last year, in this race, they finished 5 seconds ahead of second-place Harvard to take the Goldthwait Cup.
The Vogel Cup, which is awarded for overall team points throughout the day, was won by the Bulldogs last year. But it switched hands to the Crimson on Saturday.
Harvard’s victory came just over two weeks before the EARC Sprints.
Though the Tigers took both the EARC and Intercollegiate Rowing Association championship titles in 2009, the Crimson’s surge will pose a challenge for Princeton.
Unlike the defending-champion men’s lightweights, the heavyweights entered the weekend prepared for a serious challenge.
Princeton had not taken the Content Cup from Brown in four years, a streak that continued this weekend with yet another close loss to the Bears.
With the regular season over, the heavyweights will also have to wait until EARC Sprints on May 16 in Worcester, Mass., before racing again. They will enter the competition ranked No. 9, already putting them four spots higher than their finish in last year’s race.
The women’s lightweights, who did not compete this weekend, will return to action for the EAWRC sprints on May 16 in Cherry Hill, N.J. The national championships take place two weeks later.
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