Both teams tallied two wins and three losses. Harvard lost to Roger Williams, where Vermont won. But Harvard beat Vermont in the initial race between the two teams and pulled ahead of Vermont into fourth place on the day.

Sunday, the superior competition challenged the Crimson. In the first round robin, Harvard accrued only one win and six losses, putting it into last place with MIT.

Through a stronger performance in the second round robin—where Harvard beat MIT, Tufts, and Dartmouth, at the end of two rounds—both the Crimson and the Big Green compiled four wins and 10 losses.

Due to the stalemate, the two teams entered a sail-off. Again, Harvard prevailed and continued forward in the competition. So, with the cut of Dartmouth and MIT from the gold division competition, only five other teams remained with the Crimson, vying for the top spot.

Harvard finished in last of the final six with five wins and 14 losses. This put the Crimson into sixth place of the overall twelve competing teams from the weekend.

At this co-ed regatta, senior Brendan Kopp, Emily Lambert, and freshman Gram Slattery skippered, while Sarah Pierson, freshman Brian Drumm, Isabel Ruane, and freshman Reid Bergsund crewed. Freshman Michael Drumm worked as both a skipper and a crew during this regatta in the Harvard lineup.

Boston College won the regatta after it won a tiebreaker with Brown and Roger Williams, as all three teams finished with a 13-6 mark. The Eagles, Bears and Hawks all earned a berth into the ISCA/APS Team Race Nationals in Austin, Texas. With its sixth place finish in the gold fleet, Harvard failed to qualify.

“We had a strong effort,” Lamont said. “But it was a very competitive field, and we have focused less on team racing and more on fleet racing this year.

Although the Crimson lost the regatta, the NEISA Awards named Kopp and Pierson to the first team for their positions. And with no regattas in the coming weekend, the focus shifts to training for the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Semifinals on May 12, for which the Crimson coed and women’s team qualified for April 15th and 22nd, respectively.

“Semifinals will be very competitive, but we feel confident going in because we’re coming out of the toughest sailing conference in the country: the NEISA,” Lamont said. “We feel like we’re in a good spot, and we’ll be sailing as much as we can during this busy time of year to prepare.”