League Race #4 - Lake Natoma (March 14)

Coach Morgan's men's freshman 8+ raced past Marin in the final 500 meters and held on to win to start an exciting and successful day at Lake Natoma.  The 8 – coxed by Oliver Barton and oared by Haniel Roland-Holst, Lucas Bell, John Clara, Sam Marsden, Morgan Clark, Navid Golemohammadi, Nick Bielak and Ari Bolton – improved their time from last week by fifteen seconds.  As these new rowers hit their stride, they demonstrate the value of last summer's BHS Crew program at JLAC – where a half dozen of them rowed for the first time.

The men's novice 4+ A and B boats rowed strongly, and took advantage of a collision by the other teams to finish 1-2 as the morning of racing drew towards a close.  

"Fantastic" is how Coach Morgan described the day.

In between these novice races, the varsity men's lightweight 4+ gutted out a great win, too, holding off a Marin sprint at the end.  Congrats to Evan Cohen (cox), Graeme Horton, Daniel Remler, Sam Shaw and Zander Morgan!  In that same race, behind the leaders, the men's JV 4+ held its own against the Capitol and Deep Water lightweight 4's.

The Jacket women rowed well, but without the success of the men.  Even as their technique improved, the varsity women - sophomores for the most part - couldn't match the firepower of the older Marin and Capitol crews.  The women's F8+ A boat (there has got to be a more appropriate word than freshman!) fared better, finishing behind, but competitive with, the Marin A boat and beating the Marin B and Capitol eights.  And, for two of the newest rowers on the women's team - Rosie and Aisha - Sunday marked their first-ever race.  Way to go!

Enjoy the amazing photos in this photo slide show (download, .mov, 12.1 MB - big!) by Crew parent David Roland-Holst, "with compliments of Haniel."

Photos: Picasa Web album (1) and (2) ...    Eric Carlson's SmugMug gallery ... .
Results: row2k.com