Women’s Heavyweights

Also on Cayuga Lake was the No. 17 Radcliffe heavyweight team, which was there for some Ivy League action against host Cornell and No. 9 Princeton. Like the men’s lightweight team, Radcliffe’s races were also moved up a day due to weather.

This weekend, the Black and White, which had split in its last race on the Charles this season, was up against a Big Red crew that had just picked up four wins in adverse weather, and a Tigers team that had split against the top team in the country and Columbia.

The Princeton varsity eight boat took the Class of 1979 cup for the eighth time in nine years, extending its lead in the all-time series to 26-12-1. The Tigers crossed the finish line at 6:23.5, and Radcliffe trailed by nine seconds to finish at 6:32.6. Cornell rounded out the race seven seconds later at 6:39.3.

The second and third varsity eight boats also placed second in their respective races, with times of 6:52.3 and 7:05.7, respectively.

The varsity four races had the same results as the varsity eight, with second place finishes across the board. The A and B boats finished nine and eight seconds behind first-place Princeton, while the C boat fell to Cornell by open water.

Women’s Lightweights

The No. 2 lightweight team competed against No. 1 Stanford, No. 3 BU, No. 4 Wisconsin, No. 6 Tulsa, No. 7 MIT, and Georgetown for its second straight Knecht Cup title at Mercer Lake, N.J. over the weekend.

“This was our first two-day, multiple race regatta of the year,” junior co-captain Ruby Emberling said. “Preparing mentally for those is so different. You have to make sure you're fueled and ready to go all out more than once.”

Both A and B lightweight eight boats finished in the top three of their respective heats to send them to the Grand Final. In the final race, the boats finished fourth and fifth, with times of 6:47.20 and 6:53.94 respectively. The Black and White was bested by the A boats from top-ranked Stanford, which won with a time of 6:35.96, BU, and Wisconsin.

Radcliffe’s lightweight four boat also made it to the final race, after finishing with a second-place time of 8:23.34 in the qualifying race. In the final, it finished fifth out of six boats, with a time of 7:53.46. Stanford, Villanova, Princeton A, and MIT A bested the Black and White in this highly competitive race.

“This was also our first chance to see a lot of the faster competition in the lightweight rowing world,” Emberling said. “We held our own and I'm excited to see how we continue to stack up to other teams in coming weekends.”

—Staff writer Katherine H. Scott can be reached at katherine.scott@thecrimson.com.