With its sprint time weighted to a time of 15:12.06, the Black and White finished with a championship time of 32:51.31.

Harvard Heavyweights

The Harvard heavyweight boat also won first place, garnering the George M. Angle Cup for the fourth time. The Crimson also won the championship in 1990, 1991 and 2000.

Harvard faced a number of its regular-season foes in this early regatta, as boats from Brown, Cornell, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown, among others, were in attendence.

“I thought it was really good for our first time out this season,” captain Wayne Pommen said. “It was also pretty cool

because we didn’t really have a varsity boat together; it was really a boat based on seniority.”

In the morning race, the Crimson remained somewhat within the pack of competitors until the end of the race, when Harvard pulled away from just about everyone to finish with a time of 15:28.89, 15 seconds ahead of Brown, the nearest boat.

“We hadn’t really done any practice of that kind—any long pieces at a high rate,” Pommen said. “So we just went out

there and told ourselves to be aggressive. We stayed on it the whole time.”

In the afternoon sprint, Harvard faced off against Brown, one of the toughest crews in the nation. The Crimson managed to pull away from the Bears and finish at 4:25.85, with Brown following at 4:28.65.

With its sprint time weighted, Harvard won first place with a championship time of 28:46.44. The Brown boat’s time of 29:09.94 placed the Bears in second.

Harvard Lightweights

The Crimson finished the regatta in sixth place, with the Yale ‘A’ boat winning the championship in a time of 29:09.62.