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Sailing Stalls in Tune-Ups for Regionals

Big gusts made for big inconsistency at the 19th Dellenbaugh Trophy, held at Brown Saturday and Sunday.

Although Harvard’s Saturday results did not bode well, the squad pulled itself together Sunday to turn in a fourth-place finish against some of the nation’s best.

“I think we struggled. I think we can do much better and I think that Sunday we proved we can do much better, but obviously Saturday’s results count too,” Devlin said.

In the A-division, senior skipper Genny Tulloch and sophomore crew Emily Simon took third.

Their finishes testify to the regatta’s erratic winds, as they posted three finishes at 15th place but also won four races and finished in the top four in four more.

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Devlin and sophomore crew Christina Dahlman took fourth in the B-division, improving on an inconsistent start to finish in the top ten for the final six races.

“I think on Saturday we were struggling with the conditions that we saw. We posted scores that were all over the map, in part because the winds were also really fluky...We had not seen anything like that this season, so I don’t think that we were all that prepared for it,” Devlin said.

—Staff writer Samuel C. Scott can be reached at sscott@fas.harvard.edu.

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