Men's Rowing Wins Third-Straight Goes Trophy Race

Saturday, April 15

Ithaca, N.Y.

Syracuse University

Navy

The Syracuse men's rowing team poses with the Goes Trophy and Stagg Trophy after winning both for a third-straight time.

Men's Rowing Wins Third-Straight Goes Trophy Race

4/15/2023 2:23:00 PM | Men's Rowing

The Goes Trophy stays in Syracuse. The Stagg Trophy does, too.

The No. 4 Orange (5:33.8) beat No. 12 Cornell (5:43.3) and No. 21 Navy (5:44.0) on Saturday morning to win the third-straight Goes Trophy. It's the first time since 2006-08 the Orange have won the cup in three-consecutive races.

"It felt amazing coming out from a long weekend in California and a week of getting back in the swing of things on the east coast time zone," varsity coxswain Bricen Nygaard said. "It was nice to come out in what was provided a beautiful, beautiful day with some amazing racing conditions. We went out there, had a clean race and executed exactly what we wanted to do and in the end came out on top with some open water. It was a beautiful day for racing."

The varsity eight won by open water on both Cornell and Navy. Syracuse's V8+ is now 4-1 on the season with its only loss coming to No. 1 California last weekend.

"The race was much better than last week," Nicholas Kohl (stroke seat) said. "We found a better read of Arnaud [Buard] in stroke and we were able to carry more power through the whole 2,000 meters. and the margin showed it."

Syracuse showed its depth also winning the second (2V8+) and third varsity eight (3V8+) races to retain the Stagg Trophy, which is awarded to the winner of the top-three boats combined each time Cornell, Navy and 'Cuse race.

After a narrow loss to Cal last week (+0.7 seconds) the 2V8+ (5:43.5) bounced back with a dominant win over Navy (5:46.7) and Cornell (5:51.4). The 3V8+ (5:42.4) was the first race of the day for the Orange and set the tone early with a big win over both opponents. Navy (5:46.0) was second and Cornell was third (5:49.3).

In the 4V8+ Navy (5:53.4) earned the victory over Syracuse (5:56.5) but the Orange had an edge on Cornell (6:02.7) in its first race of the season. The final race of the day was the V4+ (6:44.4) for Syracuse, who lost to both crews as Cornell finished in 6:38.5 ahead of Navy (6:40.4) and the Orange.

The Orange have two weeks to prepare for its next cup races at the Lake Morey Invite in Fairlee, Vt., when Syracuse, No.7 Dartmouth (Packard Cup), No. 11 Boston University (Conlan Cup) and No. 22 Georgetown race on Lake Morey April 29-30.

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Lineups:

	Varsity		2nd Varsity		3rd Varsity		4th Varsity		(5) Varsity Four
1	Isaac Evans	1	Finn Conlon	1	Calvin Hansen	1	Billy Stoddard	1	Tristan Wakefield
2	Emory Sammons	2	Sean McHugh	2	Payton Gauthier	2	Malakai Leon	2	Rob Raics
3	Sam Hobson	3	Mack Carr	3	Reilly Eagan	3	Christopher Young	3	Rory Taylor
4	Lachlan Doust	4	Benjamin Campbell-Reide	4	Cole Nordby	4	Adam Rajab	4	Cort McNichol
5	Joe Willis	5	Connor Toomey	5	Ethan Graham	5	Stevie Chuck	C	Katherine Kelly
6	Nicholas Kohl	6	Ryan Elsinga	6	Murphy Waters	6	Scott Zimmerman
7	Benjamin Dukes	7	Jack Gorman	7	Alex DeGrado	7	Alex Dawallu
8	Arnaud Buard	8	Declan Fry	8	Anders Erlandsen	8	Evan Kinter
C	Bricen Nygaard	C	Michael Harris	C	Joseph Biondolillo	C	Mark Ezaki