Junior Gretchen Weingarth was brought up from the 2V stroke position to the 1V spot, and former stroke co-captain Stef Levner was moved to the five seat. Lambert remained in the six seat, and senior Caroline Fisher and junior Mollie Durkin were moved into the fourth and third seats, respectively.
With Weingarth, whom Lambert describes as “very aggressive,” the 1V boat has a new-look strong block that should rejuvenate the shell just in time for the Eastern Sprints.
“We have really positive stuff to work with this week,” Lambert said.
In the second varsity eight event, Radcliffe remained strong and scored a 3.66 second victory over the Terriers and the aforementioned Black and White first varsity lightweight boat. The 2V heavies traversed the 2,000-meter course in 7:23.15, followed by BU in 7:26.81 and the lights in 7:31.79.
Radcliffe captured both fours races as well.
In the “A” race, the Black and White first boat (8:12.33) took the competition ahead of a four of Radcliffe heavyweight novices (8:18.86), the Terriers (8:28.23) and the Beavers (9:17.24).
The “B” race saw the Black and White second boat (8:40.46) barely edge the Radcliffe first lightweight four (8:41.26) and trounce BU (9:03.27).
Both novice races were claimed by the Terriers, however. In the 1N event, BU (7:41.58) bested the Black and White (7:47.46) by a little under six seconds and MIT (8:03.26) by almost 22 seconds.
The Terriers (8:15.25) terrorized Radcliffe (8:29.35) in the 2N race, winning by more than 14 seconds.
Both teams will be informed of their seeding for the Eastern Sprint championships this week.
The heavies are the defending Eastern Sprint champs, and will be seeking a victory to reassert themselves as the nation’s top crew.
The lights finished second to rival Princeton at last year’s championship. Three times have the Tigers and Black and White squared off this season, with two match-ups going to Princeton but the most recent falling to Radcliffe.
“It should be an incredibly tight race,” Bothwell said. “But we’re up for it.”
—Staff writer J. Patrick Coyne can be reached at coyne@fas.harvard.edu.