BRANFORD, Conn. – The Roger Williams University sailing team competed over the past weekend picking up two wins at the Yale Z420 Regatta and the Yale FJ Regatta, while also competing at the NEISA singlehanded Championship, Hatch Brown Trophy, and the Regis Trophy.
 
In the Yale Z420, three hawks teams finished in the top five, with Jack Roman (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Ian Coen (Madison, N.J.) compiling 22 points after finishing in the top three for four out of the six races. Ian Hopkins Guerra (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and Keira Fowler (Boxford, Mass.) followed up with a second-place finish in the regatta, finishing with 24 total points.
 
The Roger Williams boat of William Bailey (Chatham, Mass.) and Maren Matthews (Grosse Ile, Mich.) closed the Z420 in fifth compiling a score of 31.
 
The Hawks also saw success in the FJ Regatta, taking first with the team of George Higham (Pine Beach, N.J.) and Grace Woodcock (South Dartmouth, Mass.). The pairing finished in first twice, along with a pair of fourth place finishes, as they finished ahead of Yale's top boat by two points. Oliver Stokke (Goleta, Calif.) and Claire Buckley (Bridgewater, Conn.) were level at 31 with the third-place boat from Yale but landed fourth due to a tiebreaker.
 
Mathieu Dale (Christiansted, Va.) finished fifth at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Singlehanded Championship, and the Hawks' Kyle Pfrang (Suffolk, Va.), Emmett Nevel (Chicago, Ill.), and Drew Mastovsky (Marion, Mass.) finished in 13^th, 19^th, and 21^st respectively.
 
The Hawks also saw sixth place finishes at both the Hatch Brown Trophy and Regis Trophy.
 
Roger Williams will compete again next weekend, beginning on Saturday, Sept. 24.