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The Jope's all Yale
(May 13) Yup, the Jope Cup for overall team supermacy in the EARC is now back in the Elm City, as Yale's three Jope Cup crews amassed enough points for a 5-point Jope Cup win over Harvard and Princeton, who tied with 29 points apiece. 
   The #1-ranked freshmen started the day by winning their heat, and then had a ripping good final in the afternoon to win the Gary Kilpatrick Cup, leading all the way despite strong challenges from Princeton and Harvard. All three crews separated  themselves from the rest of the field with the heated competition. 
   The #1-ranked 2V, not to be outdone by their own freesh, capped off their season with a Cornell Trophy championship, leading virtually the whole way for a 1.98 second victory over silver medal Cornell.  
   The 3V race was a final-only, and the Eli raced hard and well, but did not have the varsity-caliber power of first-place Cornell, finishing 5th.
   The fifth-ranked varsity qualified in the morning in the third position, ensuring an invitation to the IRA in June. That was task one. The second was to race hard and get enough Jope points to push Yale over the top and take the Cup home. Their fourth-place finish was enough, and for Captain Dave Walker '12 and the team, it was task complete.
   Congratulations to the Harvard varsity lightweight eight on a great season, and congratulations to all Y150s racing and representing today:

1V: cox Emma McBurney '12, stroke Matt O'Donoghue '14, 7-seat Matt Bridgwater '14, 6-seat Dave Walker '12, 5-seat Tom Swartz '13, 4-seat David Kahan '12, 3-seat Peter Bridgwater '14, 2-seat Josh Ruck '13, bow William Ferraro '13.

2V: cox Ilana Usiskin '14, stroke Chad Bailey '12, 7-seat Joseph Hanlon '14, 6-seat David Bloom '13 , 5-seat Patrick O'Keefe'13, 4-seat Christopher Vasseur '13, 3-seat Daniel Ribas '12, 2-seat Michael Glenmullen '13, bow Skylar Prill '12.

1F: cox Kimaya Abreu '15, stroke Greg Hawkins '15, 7-seat Andrew Todd '15, 6-seat Jack Welsh '15, 5-seat Walker Wulbern '15, 4-seat Alex Spaulding '15, 3-seat Matt Cecil '15, 2-seat Chris Mulvey '15, bow Brandon Blaesser '15.

3V: cox Paige Fedon '12, stroke Scott Isaac '13, 7-seat Chris Pang '14, 6-seat Mikko Salovaara '14, 5-seat John Harringa '14, 4-seat Philip Morel '14, 3-seat Adin Lykken '14, 2-seat Cameron Best '13, bow seat Johnathan Yao '15.

2V and 1F complete undefeated regular seasons with HYP victories
(April 28) Two #1 ranked crews showed today why they deserved the top seed for the EARC Sprints, but one #1 was toppled here on the very fast Housatonic River in Derby. In brisk tailwind conditions, the Yale 2V completed its season with a strong win over Princeton and Harvard, while the Yale freshmen, in a classic HYP battle between three unbeaten squads, emerged from the scrape and across the finish line first.
   In the Goldthwait Cup, it was Harvard for the third year in a row, with Princeton second and Yale third.  
   The 3V also fell to Harvard but finished ahead of Princeton, who had two heavyweights in the squad due to injury. 
   The Vogel Cup, donated in honor of long-time Yale lightweight coach David H. Vogel '71 by alumni and friends, is a points trophy nearly unique in that it includes the results from all 5 races in the regatta, not just the Jope Cup races. Harvard won the Cup, with 35 points to Yale's 28 and Princeton's 21.
    The next regatta for the Elis will be the EARC Sprints on May 13 on Lake Quinsigamond.

3 Blue, 1 Green
(April 21) The Yale Lightweights went north to Hanover today, and came back with three wins out of four, but could not return the Durand Cup to Derby in the varsity race. The 1F led off the regatta with a good performance in a decent but not overpowering headwind, followed by the 2V with a similar row over their Big Green counterparts. The varsity race saw a talented Dartmouth crew handle nearly everything about the race better than the Eli, who suffered their first defeat of the 2012 campaign. The 3V 4+s were next, and the Yale 'A' four emerged on top of that contest, defeating both Dartmouth and Yale 'B'.

Jersey-fried
(April 13) The Yale Lightweights spent the whole day racing in New Jersey, and came back home with the Dodge Cup over Columbia and Penn in the morning and a victory over Cornell in the afternoon. 
   The Dodge Cup races were held for the first time at Overpeck Lake just over the George Washington Bridge, and the venue proved mostly friendly to the Elis, as the 1V, 2V, and 1F all won. A great battle in the 3V race saw Yale lead the whole way by about a length, only to suffer an over-the-head crab in the last 250 meters which opened the door for Penn's crew. The Elis could not recover, and Penn took advantage for the win.
   The varsity and junior varsity races were hard fought and well rowed events, with Columbia and Yale locked together for much of the race, each crew either unable to move away from or unable to move through the other. In the end, on this day, it was Yale who crossed this finish line first.
   After a great lunch in Overpeck Park, the team headed to Lake Carnegie to take on the Big Red of Cornell, who had beaten Princeton in the morning to take the Platt Cup. After a dominating performance by Cornell's 3V, the rest of the day was Blue, as the freesh won by 2.3 seconds, the 2V by 3.2 seconds, and the varsity by 5.4 seconds.
 
1V    Yale 5:48.1   Cornell 5:53.5

2V    Yale 5:50.2   Cornell 5:53.4

1F    Yale 5:57.0    Cornell 5:59.3

3V    Cornell 6:00.8    Yale 6:28.

Victory and Bust
(April 7) The Yale Lightweights came off the Charles River elated with their sweep of the Joy Cup and a hard-fought win over Georgetown in the varsity race, but elation turned to surprise then tragedy then farce as Will Zeng '11 and his Oxford teammates contended with a bizarre re-start and then a clash with Cambridge that left Oxford with only 7 able oarsmen and an interminable denouement that meant a Cambridge win and enough fodder for argument to last until next year's Boat Race. 
   On the American shore, the lower boats from Yale posted victories. The 2V bested Georgetown, and the 1F and 4+ won their races over both Georgetown and M.I.T.
   The varsity race between Yale and the #3 Hoyas was close for the full distance on a Charles River that started the morning gently but then kicked up a headwind as the sun rose higher. For unofficial results, click here.

Y150 sweeps Johnson Cup
(March 31) The Yale lightweights opened their spring season today on the neutral waters of Carnegie Lake against Navy. The 9th edition of the Johnson Cup rivalry with Navy was all Yale Blue today as the Bulldogs won all four races of the regatta. The 3V started things off with the closest race of the day, besting their Navy counterparts as well as the Navy 2F. The freesh then faced their first race as Elis, and they responded with a great effort to lead the race from the get-go. A Navy crab in the 2nd thousand helped increase the Yale lead to a final margin of 25 seconds. The 2V race was a hard-fought contest, with Yale taking a length lead early and pushing that out to a 4.15 second win. But winning the Johnson Cup was foremost on Y150 minds, and it would take a good row from start to finish to bring the Johnson Cup back to New Haven for the 5th time in 9 years. The Elis got that good effort, and an near-9-second win was the result. This was Yale's biggest margin of victory ever in Johnson Cup competition, and the largest since 2008. 
   Next week the Bulldogs travel to Cambridge to race M.I.T. and Georgetown. 

William Zeng '11 is the two-seat of the Oxford Blue Boat
-- shocking development on the scale --
    Will, we hardly know ye at 82.4 kg

(March 5) The crews for the 2012 Boat Race were named today in London. Y150 Will Zeng '11, a member of the Yale lightweight eight that won the 2011 national championship, and attending Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, has been named to the two-seat of the Blue Boat. Will has two teammates who weigh less than his 82.4 kg, although that's no surprise, as we now know where the purloined jars of Nutella went on the Henley trip.

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