BRISTOL, R.I. — The Roger Williams University Sailing team came away with a pair of top-five showing this past weekend in the team's two races.
 
At the NEISA Team Racing Championship, hosted by Connecticut College, the Hawks posted a fifth-place finish, just one spot shy of a qualifying mark for the ICSA Team Race National Championship. In the first round robin, Roger Williams was able to collect wins over Boston University, Dartmouth, Brown, URI, Harvard, and Tufts to advance to the second round robin. In the second round, the Hawks picked up four wins over Brown, Bowdoin, MIT, and Connecticut College. Unfortunately for RWU, Bowdoin held an 11-10 edge in wins at the end to earn the final qualifying spot for Nationals. Sailing for RWU on the weekend were Conner Harding (Naples, Fla.), Jennifer Agell (Huntington, N.Y.), Daniel Petrovic (Tortola, BVI), Emily Gildea (Palos Park, Ill.), Spencer Cartwright (Nassau, Bahamas), and Hallie Repeta (Portland, Maine).
 
At the Mystic Lake Team Race Invitational, hosted by Tufts, Roger Williams finished in third place via a three-way tie with Yale and Tufts. The Hawks got off to a great start in the first round robin, going 6-2 with victories over Boston University, MIT, Northeastern, URI, Vermont, and Yale. In the final round robin, RWU downed Tufts and Boston University among their final three races. RWU would finish 8-3 along with Yale and Tufts, but both teams held a score advantage over RWU to win the tiebreaker. Cameron Wood (Corona del Mar, Calif.), Kylie Freitas (Escondido, Calif.), Johnny Walton (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Kristi Dolan (West Islip, N.Y.), Grant Gridley (Portland, Ore.), Brendan Little (Easton, Md.) all saw action for the Hawks.