Yale Sweeps Dartmouth

April 12, 2008

DERBY, Conn. - In its second dual of the spring, the Yale men's heavyweight crew team cruised to easy wins over Dartmouth. The Yale varsity eight won by over fifteen seconds to ensure that the Olympic Axe stay at Gilder Boathouse for another year.

The first event of the morning was the second varsity race. In it, both the Bulldogs' second varsity and third varsity faced Dartmouth's second varsity. Yale's 2V of Nolan Maher (stroke), Vincent Granata (seven), Dominique Fenton (six), Matthew Barber (five), Sean Riordan (four), Keir Evans (three), David Mcintosh (two), Antonio Sirianni (bow) and Rebecca Burgoyne-Allen (cox) won the event after a quick start. The 2V pulled ahead early on and never looked back. In second, and 8.1 seconds later, came Yale's 3V of Charlie Pfeifer (stroke), Kristoffer Strauss (seven), Richard Littlehale (six), Charles Moore (five), William Walter (four), Gregory Muir (three), David Hamstra (two), Colin Campbell (bow) and Emily Flaxman (cox). The Dartmouth 2V came in third, 20.5 seconds after the Yale 2V and 12.4 seconds after the 3V.

Just like this year, both Yale boats came in ahead of Dartmouth in the 2007 edition of this race. The 2V's margin over Dartmouth in 2007 was 17.7 seconds compared to this year's 20.5. The margin between this year's 2V and 3V compared to last year's has also increased. The 2V only came 2.9 seconds ahead of the 3V last year compared to the 8.1 second margin this year.

The second event of the day was the second freshman four race. It was an easy win for Yale, with the 2F four of George Moran (stroke), Benjamin Ortiz (three), Simon Warren (two), Patrick Vergara (bow) and Francesca Yi (cox) coming in 40.8 seconds ahead of the Dartmouth crew. A few minutes into the race, Yale had five boat-lengths of open water over Dartmouth. The Dartmouth crew then caught a boat-stopping crab, effectively ending its hopes of catching up to the Yale 2F.

The first freshman eight followed the 2F with another, albeit less, decisive victory. The 1F of Spyridon Mastroyannis (stroke), Marcos Carzolio (seven), Duncan Logie (six), Ezra Mitchell (five), Matthew Ramlow (four), Daniel Klassen (three), Nathaniel Reeve (two), Benjamin Grant (bow) and Carolyn Tobkin (cox) came in 11.7 seconds ahead of the Dartmouth 1F. The Yale 1F thus remains undefeated.

The final event of the morning was the varsity eight. The Yale 1V finished off the clean sweep by beating the Dartmouth varsity boat by 15.1 seconds. The first varsity boat included Erik Woelber (stroke), Sean Hurley (seven), Andrew Collard (six), Pieter Morgan (five), James Tormey (four), Henry Cole (three), Lucas Spielfogel (two), Jack Vogelsang (bow) and Michael Ciccotti (cox). In last year's race, the 2007 1V beat Dartmouth by 19.2 seconds.

Results

Varsity 8:
Yale - 5:59.6
Dartmouth - 6:14.7

2nd Varsity 8:
Yale 2V - 6:08.4
Yale 3V - 6:16.5
Dartmouth 2V - 6:28.9

Freshman 8:
Yale - 6:04.8
Dartmouth - 6:16.5

2nd Freshman 4:
Yale - 7:02.1
Dartmouth - 7:42.9

The Bulldogs will host Columbia and Penn on Apr. 19 in defense of the Blackwell Cup. This will be the penultimate race before Eastern Sprints on May 15.

Report filed by Dominique Fenton '10, Yale Sports Publicity