Hornets Row against High School Teams on Huron River in Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan — April 26, 2014 —
Saline High School Crew rowers stayed closer to home this weekend, competing against nine area high school teams at the Huron River Sprints hosted by Skyline High School Crew. Cranbrook, Northville, Saline, Notre Dame Academy, St John, St Ursula, Orchard Lake St. Mary’s, Toledo Metro and Anthony Wayne all traveled to Ann Arbor on Saturday to row on the three lane, 1500 meter course on the Huron River at the Concordia College campus on Geddes Road. The start was located at the US 23 bridge over the river and ran westward to Gallup Park with great viewing along the river and at the finish. Skies were sunny, but with headwinds gusting to 25 MPH, conditions were challenging for the rowers.
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The racing started at 8:30 with Saline’s Lightweight 4 (Sean Hutfles, Ben Friman, Travis Krause, Graham Fox and coxswain Victoria Wellings) winning their heat race against Orchard Lake St. Mary’s with a time of 0:05:36 and qualifying for the finals. Next up were Saline’s Men’s Novice 4 (Phillip Cauley, Conrad Brill, Tim Burtell, Niko Hays and coxswain Ben Read) who also won their heat race against Anthony Wayne and St. John and moving them to the finals with a winning time of 0:06:29. The Women’s Novice 4 (Lauren Lahie, Micki Collins, Alex Wagner, Emma Frick and coxswain Jacob Ball) won their heat convincingly against Cranbrook and Anthony Wayne, but their time of 0:07:57 was not fast enough to move them into the final round.
Next up, the Men’s Varsity Double (Nolan Dellot and Zayn Al-Zahid) were able to move their boat into the finals as well with a second place finish in their heat behind Skyline’s A boat and ahead of Northville. Saline’s Women’s Varsity 4 boat (Alexis Wolfe, Franchesca LaChance, Michaela Wells, Haley Pfeiffer and coxswain Sarah Carter) also qualified for the finals with a victory in their heat race, posting a time of 0:06:59 ahead of Anthony Wayne and Cranbrook.
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The Men’s Lightweight 8 (Sean Hutfles, Ian Marlow, Graham Fox, Oliver Mepham, Travis Krause, Ben Friman, Matt Burtell, Ben Read and coxswain Victoria Wellings) won its heat race convincingly, posting the fastest time of its heat races with a time of 0:05:11. The Women’s Varsity 8 boat (Alexis Wolfe, Alle Fiske, Gavin Gallagher, Liz Walsh, Emma Frick, Haley Pfeiffer, Jenna Jansa, Franchesca LaChance and coxswain Sarah Carter) also posted the fastest time in its heat races with a winning time of 0:06:02 against St Ursula and Anthony Wayne.
FINALS:
In all, Saline qualified 6 boats into the finals of the 13 boats entered at the event. In the finals, the Men’s Varsity 4X (Jacob Hargrove, David Johnson, Oliver Mepham and Julian Rodriguez) fought to a close 3rd place finish in the final, only 5 seconds behind second place Skyline B and 9 seconds behind the winning Skyline A entry while the Women’s Varsity 4X (Alle Fiske, Gavin Gallagher, Jenna Jansa and Liz Walsh) battled to the end with a close second place finish behind Skyline, only 3 seconds off the winning time of 0:06:16.
The Men’s Lightweight 4 placed third in its final at 0:05:38 behind Skyline’s winning time of 0:05:12 and only 8 seconds behind second place St John while the Men’s Varsity double finished in 3rd behind very fast Skyline A and B boats. The Men’s Novice 4 finished a close 2nd in its final with a time of 0:06:09 behind the winning time of 0:06:04 posted by Skyline and well ahead of the third place boat from St John.
The Women’s Varsity 4 placed 3rd in its final with a time of 0:06:38 behind Skyline’s winning time of 0:06:01 and Toledo Metro’s 2nd place time of 0:06:24. The Men’s Lightweight 8 battled to second place finish with a time of 0:05:04 behind Orchard lake St Mary’s winning time of 0:04:50 and ahead of St John at 0:05:27. Saline closed out the sprints with the Women’s Varsity 8 finishing 2nd, 14 seconds behind Anthony Wayne’s winning time of 0:05:27 and ahead of St Ursula A.
Next weekend is the Wi-Hi Regatta, hosted by the Wyandotte Boat Club in Wyandotte, MI on May 3, 2014 followed by the
• Michigan High School Championship Regatta, Grand Rapids, MI - May 17, 2013
• Saline Hornet hosted regatta on Ford Lake - May 24, 2014
• Grand Rapids High School Regatta – May 31, 2014
• Canadian School Rowing Championship (St. Catherine’s, ONT) – June 6-9, 2014
More information can be found at www.salinecrew.org.