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April 22, 2008

Rowing fans in store for a treat

Fans of intercollegiate rowing should plan on being on the banks of the Narrow River in North Kingstown and the Seekonk River in Providence Saturday to watch the University of Rhode Island women and the Brown University men.

URI, fresh from its first Atlantic 10 championship, will row against MIT on the Narrow River in its second and final set of races on its home waters. The Rams snapped the 12-year reign of the University of Massachusetts as A-10 champion with a spectacular day of rowing on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J. Rhody boats won the Varsity Eight, Varsity Four and Lightweight Four, finished second in Second Varsity Eight and Second Novice Eight, came in third third in Novice Eight and finished fourth in Lightweight Eight and Quad.

URI accumulated 135 points. UMass was second with 119 and Saint Joseph's third with 113. UMass's 12-year championship streak was the longest in any A-10 sport. URI's Shelagh Donohue was voted A-10 coach of the year for the second consecutive year.

Brown, the second-ranked men's crew in the nation, will host Dartmouth on the Seekonk. The Bears beat seventh-ranked Northeastern in the 44th Annual Dreissigacker Cup Saturday on the Charles River in Boston. Brown's varisty eight remained undefeated, and the second varsity and freshman teams also won.

The Brown women, reigning NCAA national champions, will row against Cornell and Columbia at Ithaca, N.Y., on Saturday. They won six races on the Charles River Saturday, leaving Gonzaga, Boston University, Notre Dame, Northeastern and Texas in their wake.

Posted by Mike Szostak  at 1:36 PM to College Sports | Permalink

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