CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Roger Williams University sailing team competed over the previous weekend, picking up six top five finishes during the weekend, including a win at the Tech Dinghy Invitational Regatta hosted by MIT.
At the regatta hosted by the Engineers, the Hawks saw three sailors place in the top five. Junior
Hank Bailey (Chatham, Mass.) picked up the first-place finish at the regatta, earning 16 points, finishing 11 points ahead of the second-place finisher. Bailey did not place lower than third in any races in the 17-sailor field.
Ethan Burt (Hingham, Mass.) and
Claire Siegel-Wilson (Portland, Ore.) finished in fourth and fifth respectively picking up 46 and 48 points, through the nine races.
At the Salt Pond Invitational hosted by the University of Rhode Island, the Hawks placed second in the regatta, with the Hawks Division A boat of
Jack Roman (Newport Beach, Calif.) and
Ben Lindo (Stonington, Conn.) earning the Division A win, with 25 points. Roman and Lindo edged out URI's top boat by six points, with Roger Williams Division B boat finishing with 38 points, gathered by
Drew Mastovsky (Marion, Mass.) and
Izaiah Farr (Dartmouth, Mass.).
At the Hood Trophy hosted by Tufts, the Hawks second boat Division B pairing of
Kyle Pfrang (Cohasset, Mass.) and
Julia O'Connor (Foxboro, Mass.) picked up a first-place finish, finishing 11 points ahead of their other Division B racers, while
Carlos Bermudez de Castro (Abegondo) and
Carly Kiss (Pewaukee, Wis.) closed the Division B races, scoring 82 points.
The Hawks first boat of Bermudez de Castro and Kiss, combined with the Division A boar of
Oliver Stokke (Goleta, Calif.) and
Claire Buckley (Bridgewater, Conn.) as they combined for a second-place finish with 180 points, while the second boat finished in seventh totaling 201 points between Pfrang, O'Connor,
George Higham (Pine Beach, N.H.) and
Gracie Woodcock (South Dartmouth, Mass.).
The Hawks also competed at the Harvard FJ Invitational, where
Ian Hopkins Guerra (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and
Keira Fowler (Boxford, Mass.) combined for 61 points in a fifth-place finish.
Alexandra Chigas (Glenview, Ill.) and
Elyssa Franklin (St. Croix, V.I.) placed ninth, while
Chase Reynolds (Southport, Conn.) and
Ruby Hope (Bellevue, Wash.) rounded out the top 10 with 97 points.
Roger Williams rounded out their weekend with a ninth-place finish at the Sherman Hoyt trophy. The Hawks Division A and Division B boats combined for 238 points over the weekend.
Roger Williams is currently scheduled to compete in four regattas next weekend, beginning on Oct. 1.
