Crew Results After First Day San Diego Classic
March 27, 1999
San Diego, Cal - San Diego -- The Oregon State University mens and womens novice eight boats have advanced to the Grand Finals of the San Diego Crew Classic on Mission Bay. Both the mens and womens varsity and second varsity eights will be competing in the Petite Finals, where seventh place will be their best possible finish.
The mens novice eight finished second in their heat at 6:27.3. The Beavers finished just three-tenths of a second behind heat winner Orange Coast College, and finished in front of San Diego, Santa Clara, UCLA and Willamette.
"The novice team had a great race," Mens Head Coach Dave Reischman added. "The team had a little trouble at the start, but steadily climbed back into the race and nearly won the heat."
The womens novice eight won their heat with a time of 7:10.4, just over 11 seconds better than second-place Stanford.
"The team rowed a terrific race, they basically just walked away with the heat," Womens Head Coach Charlie Owen said. "Im really pleased with their performance."
The mens varsity eight finished fourth in the second of two heats, the top three in each heat advanced to the Grand Finals. The Beavers posted a time of 6:07, eight seconds back of third-place Temple.
"There were two positives from the varsity race," Reischman said. "We have had trouble the last couple of years with our starts, but today we were much more solid."
The mens varsity eight will now race in the Petite Finals competing against Virginia, Columbia and conference rival Stanford. .
"The water conditions were a little rough today, and I thought our inexperience affected us in terms of balance in the boats," Reischman added. "We are a very young crew and we will get better. We finished eight seconds behind Temple, a top-10 crew, and three-to-four seconds of that margin was due to us being out of rhythm. Overall, this is about what I thought the results would be, but over the course of the season we are going to make some great gains."
The mens second varsity eight finished fourth in their heat with a time of 6:18, five seconds behind third-place California. Washington won the event by seven seconds over Penn, posting a time of 6:05.
"I thought the second varsity boat had a very clean race, but they were just a little undermanned," Reischman explained.
The womens varsity eight missed a Grand Finals appearance by just 17-hundredths of a second. The Beavers posted a time of 6:49.05, with third-place Wisconsin rowing a 6:48.88. Washington won the heat at 6:39.8.
"We didnt row as well as we could, and hit a couple buoys that really hurt us," Owen said. "I look for us to row a much cleaner race in the Petite Finals."
The womens second varsity eight also finished fourth, 13-hundredths behind third-place Michigan.
"We showed much better speed than we have in the past in this event," Owen said of the second varsity boat. "I liked our competitiveness."
Mens Varsity 8 (Heat 2) -- Washington, 5:56; Yale, 5:59; Temple, 5:59; Oregon State, 6:07; Virginia, 6:14
Mens Second Varsity 8 (Heat 2) -- Washington, 6:05; Penn, 6:12; California, 6:13; Oregon State, 6:18; UC Davis, 7:00
Mens Novice 8 (Heat 2) -- Orange Coast 6:27; Oregon State, 6:27.3; San Diego, 6:45; Santa Clara, 6:49; UCLA, 6:53; Willamette, 7:05
Womens Varsity Eight (Heat 2) -- Washington, 6:39.8; USC, 6:43.14; Wisconsin, 6:48.88; Oregon State, 6:49.05; North Carolina, 6:55.20; Yale, 6:56.55
Womens Second Varsity Eight (Heat 2) -- Virginia, 6:51.13; Washington State, 6:58.20; Michigan, 7:04.19; Oregon State, 7:04.32; Sacramento State, 7:20.48; UC Irvine, 8:12.04; Villanova, 8:27.66
Womens Novice Eight (Heat 1) -- Oregon State, 7:10.4; Stanford, 7:21.6; Loyola Marymount, 7:31.35; Long Beach State, 7:49.87; UCLA, 7:55.10; UC Santa Barbara, 8:34.59
