The Club's Results
Clare Novice Regatta, Mich Term 2016
1st men's novice VIII (1st division)
Crew list for 1 race:
| 1st men's novice VIII | |||
| in Black Prince | |||
| bow | Ryan Pringle | 2 | Alfred Wong |
| 3 | David Bustillos | 4 | Aaron Lewis |
| 5 | Josh Hampson | 6 | Peter Robinson |
| 7 | Jacob Currie | str | Robin Hedley |
Coxed by: Charlene Tang
Crew list for 4 races:
| 1st men's novice VIII | |||
| in Black Prince | |||
| bow | Ryan Pringle | 2 | Alfred Wong |
| 3 | Rory McLaurin | 4 | Aaron Lewis |
| 5 | David Bustillos | 6 | Peter Robinson |
| 7 | Jacob Currie | str | Robin Hedley |
Coxed by: Charlene Tang
1st round
Beat Sidney Sussex NM1
Beat Sidney Sussex NM1
Never underestimate the opposition. Even if they look as bad as this. They might have been bluffing, but on this occasion they weren't.
Semi finals
Beat Fitzwilliam NM1 (by a length)
Beat Fitzwilliam NM1 (by a length)
I have little to add to the other reports apart from pure 'hype'.
However, I must note that, as a member of the previous year's NM1 who were cruelly defeated by Fitz on two occasions (CNR and Fairbairn's), watching this confident crushing of Fitzwilliam College's First Novice Men's VIII. This utter obliteration was the most satisfying wave of pleasure I have experienced for some time.
Final
Beat Caius NM1 by 3/4 length
Beat Caius NM1 by 3/4 length
This was a sterling performance from NM1 in their natural habitat: the dedicated row. After a fairly decent start, they started to pull away from Caius, when an overhead crab from the 5-seat looked set to determine the end of this race. As the bank party had flashbacks to the previous face-off between these 2 crews, when stroke had caught a boat-turning crab, 5 and 4 lacked no speed in their determination to crush any crustacean disturbance and resume the rhythm.
The failure of Caius to capitalise on this incident allowed for NM1 to push through, but a few strokes after the crab the result looked almost guaranteed. While Caius were clearly breaking, possibly because they sensed the phoenix NM1 surging through, our boys pushed hard, trusted their beautiful long strokes and took it by around 3/4 length.
Magnificent.
The plan was to test ourselves by giving Caius half a length or so advantage by way of a tactical crab. Unfortunately we found ourselves still level afterwards so immediately caught another for luck. Having switched to all eight we smoothly got back on terms and rowed through them. Never in doubt (honestly, it really wasn't). Well done boys: one race from history (and Life).
Links
Full Mich Term 2016 Clare Novice Regatta results
1st men's novice VIII Clare Novice Regatta results archive
