Overall, Kovacs placed third in four races and second in one.

“Going into the event, I felt like a top-five finish would be an achievable goal for me,” Kovacs said.

Like her fellow sailors, Tulloch’s finishes progressed along with the regatta—her weekend was highlighted with a win in the fifteenth race.

“We were the only team there that had four sailors,” Devlin said. “Just in general, Harvard has a very strong singlehanded sailors, and I think we represented Harvard really well. “

The Crimson’s twin runner-up finishes give the team a sizable lead in the standings for the Fowle Trophy. The award is based on team performances in six championship regattas, of which this weekend’s men’s and women’s competitions were two.

“We’ve won the Fowle Trophy four years in a row, and to be this far ahead at this stage of the game is huge,” Johnson said.

CO-ED VARSITY

Meanwhile, Harvard’s No. 10 doublehanded dinghy sailors fought heavy winds this weekend, taking sixteenth of 18 teams at the Hoyt Trophy Regatta at Brown University. Sailing 420s in variable breezes, the Crimson posted 430 points, while the Bears won with 135.

“It was pretty cold and pretty windy, and we didn’t have any heavy crews, so we were pretty light in both boats,” said captain Daphne Lyman. “A lot of the other teams, especially the teams that finished at the top, had extra crews that they could substitute in and out when the wind was heavy.”

Matt Knowles skippered Harvard’s A-division into sixteenth place, while the B-division boat, with sophomore Pat Mauro at the helm, took fifteenth.

Splitting between boats at crew were Lyman and sophomore Cassandra Niemi.

WOMEN’S

The absence of key personnel also hurt the Crimson’s women, as No. 8 Harvard finished thirteenth out of 15 at the Stu Nelson Women’s Regatta at Connecticut College.

The Crimson posted a combined score of 281 in Flying Juniors, while Boston College won with a combined score of 162.

Skippered by junior Jessica Baker and with sophomore Emily Simon at crew, the first boat took tenth in the A-division. The duo finished second twice but was disqualified three times—twice because of other boats’ protests and once because of its own failed protest.

“It was a bit of bad luck and some errors,” said Baker. “They hurt the score, but that wasn’t the main focus of the regatta.”

With freshman Elyse Dolbec at skipper and junior Mallory Griemann crewing, the B-division boat finished eleventh.

“I think we would have liked to have done a little better,” Baker said. “I think overall we had some really good races.”