Sailing starts season strong
Engineers capture 3rd, 4th, 5th and 9th places
The MIT sailing team kicked off its season by competing in three events this past weekend. The Engineers captured fifth place out of 20 teams at the Harry Anderson Trophy, finished ninth at the Toni Deutsch Trophy, and took third and fourth at the Harvard Invitational.
Skipper Eamon M. Glackin β12 and crew Kelden M. Pehr β13 placed second in the opening round of the Harry Anderson Trophy and went on to record three more top five finishes en route to a sixth place performance in the A Division. Andrew Z. Sommer β13 collaborated with Stephanie Tong β12 and Steven G. Drapcho β13 to rank eighth in the B Division while posting five top 10 performances. Sommer, the skipper for all 10 rounds, earned the top spot in the ninth rotation with Drapcho and was third in the second heat with Tong.
Wisconsin earned top honors in the event with 138 points, followed by Harvard (147), host Yale (148), Boston College (164), and MIT (173).
Competing in its lone home event, captain Jacqueline M. Soegaard β12 guided a young womenβs squad to ninth place at the Toni Deutsch Trophy. In the A Division, sophomores Hanna M. Vincent β13 and Grace Anne C. Young β13 ranked sixth behind the strength of 10 top five performances. The duo was first in the 16th round and captured fourth on four occasions. Freshman skipper Chloe Lepert β15 teamed with Soegaard in the first 18 rounds of B Division action while Laura J. Dunphy β15 and Iris Xu β14 closed out the race for the Engineers, who ranked eighth. The quartet finished in the top 10 in 19 of 26 rounds and had seven placements in the top five.
Brown edged out Boston College by three points to win the event while Yale, Roger Williams University, and Dartmouth rounded out the top five. The trophy is named after Toni Deutsch β58, a distinguished alumna who was a member of the sailing team that won several national championships and was the first woman to receive a varsity letter at MIT.
In the one day, four-team Harvard Invitational, MIT entered two squads, the Engineers and the Beavers, which placed third and fourth, respectively. Tufts University won the competition with 47 points while the host Crimson came in second.
The Engineersβ A Division boat, comprised of senior Tevis Nichols β12 and classmate Neil T. Forrester β12, placed third with 42 points while Santiago Cuellar β12 and David Rodriguez Fuentes β13 accumulated 48 points to finish fourth in the B Division.
Javier E. Ramos β12 and Nicholas W. Paggi β15 totaled 60 points in their fourth place A Division outing. Taylor S. Burfield β13 and Patricia E. Saylor β14 wrapped up the race with 40 points and a third place finish in the B Division. Tech next competes in the Hatch Brown this weekend.