“It’s exciting to win,” Lambert said. “But in the larger picture, we were really just focusing on nationals.”

Senior Brendan Kopp, who skippered the A division boat, credited the B division team with a huge boost for the Crimson team.

“Everyone sailed incredibly well,” Kopp said. “In particular, Emily Lambert and [freshman] Brian Drumm sailed awesome in B Division. They were killing it. It was really nice to look up in between our races and see Emily and Brian in the front of the pack almost every time. They were really carrying our team.”

Kopp also lauded the team’s land division for their work in the meet. Kopp said in a text message that the land division, which gives boats a necessary tune up between sets—like a pit crew in NASCAR—“was awesome this weekend.”

SAVIN HILL INVITATIONAL

Harvard sophomores Morgan Russom, Isabel Ruane, Caitlin Watson, and Jacquelyn Cooley competed across town in the Savin Hill Invitational, hosted by Boston College, bringing the Crimson a third place finish. The B division pair, Watson and Cooley, came in third, giving Harvard the edge over fourth place Roger Williams. Russom and Ruane manned the A division boat and captured a fifth-place finish.

72ND OBERG TROPHY

Meanwhile, sophomores Ames Lyman and Luke O’Connor and freshmen Mary Katherine Finlayson and Rebecca Frankel faced off in the 72nd Oberg Trophy. The Crimson came in 11th overall, with Lyman and Finlayson from the A division finishing 12th and O’Connor and Frankel taking eighth in the B division.

—Staff writer Maya S. Jonas-Silver can be reached at mayajonas-silver@college.harvard.edu.