Men’s Rowing has Strong Showing at San Diego Crew Classic

Saturday, April 5

San Diego, Calif.

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San Diego Crew Classic

Men’s Rowing has Strong Showing at San Diego Crew Classic

4/5/2008 1:00:49 PM | Men's Rowing

SAN DIEGO – The Syracuse men’s crew squad kicked off its 2008 spring season with a fourth –place showing in the Men’s Collegiate Varsity Invitational A Copley Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic Saturday, April 5. The varsity eight boat of Jamie Hubbell (coxswain), Ryan Armstrong (stroke), Ryan Patton (7-seat), Martin Etem (6-seat), Brian Azeff (5-seat), Tyson Bry (4-seat), Mike Bagnall (3-seat), John Combs (2-seat) and Dan Lombardi (bow) finished with 2,000-meter course with a time of 5:51.17.

“I thought we did some great racing this morning. For where we’re at in the season, we had a good go down the race course,” head coach Dave Reischman said. “The crews we were racing against finished one-two-three in the nation last season and we hung on to their sterns. I thought the guys did a great job today and we are eager to race tomorrow."

Defending IRA champion Washington won the race with a time of 5:41.60. Harvard finished second with a time of 5:46.82 and defending Copley Cup champion Stanford finished third with a time of 5:48.07. OSU (5:56.17), UCSD (6:01.60) and Colgate (6:12.07) rounded out the field.

SU will row at the Crown Point Shores Park at Mission Bay aging tomorrow in the Men’s Collegiate Varsity International Petite race on Sunday at 11:50 a.m. ET.