USRowing 1999 National Team Trials
Saturday FINAL # 1 RESULTS
- Princeton, NJ
July 14-19, 1999

Open Men's 2-, 2+, 4-, 4+
LW Men's 1x, 2-
Open Women's 2-
LW Women's 2-, 2x

1a OW 2-	8:00 AM	Both to Final 2
	Place	Lane	Name	Time
	1	3	Scovel/Nelson	07:05.6
	2	2	Kraft/Ryan	07:08.1
As at Nationals, Bennion and Scovel led off the start, probably by up to as much as a length at one point. In the third 500, and Kraft and Ryan drove through the ARCO pair to a half-length lead, but in the final 500 meters, the ARCO pair started an early and extremely dynamic charge for the finish line, and finished nearly a full length up to win the first final.
2a OM 2-	8:15 AM
	Place	Lane	Name	Time
	1	3	Holland/Beasley	06:25.4
	2	1	Callahan/Irving	06:28.5
	3	4	Murphy/Bea	06:29.1
	4	2	Fentress/Cummins	06:29.5
If the Holland/Beasley pair, which now has Cyrus at stroke seat, appeared to have a crack in the armor after nearly losing the heat a couple days ago, it seemed corrected this morning. The Bea/Murphy pair took the lead off the start, but Beasley/Holland rowed into the lead in the second 500, moved out to some open water, and controlled the race the rest of the way. Among the other three pairs, each of them probably held both the second and third position at some point in the race, with the Callahan/Irving pair mustering a very quick final 250 to push into second place.
3a OM 2+	8:30 AM	Top Three to Final 2
	Place	Lane	Name	Time
	1	2	Henry/Neil/Anderson	06:56.2
	2	1	Torgerson/Coveny/Lennig	06:59.2
	3	4	Schmunk/Browder/Manion	07:01.6
	4	3	Nuzum/Brooks/O'Mariam	07:22.2
This race was all but dominated by the Neil/Henry/Anderson pair. The other PTC pair showed solid cruising speed for most of the race, but does not appear to have the top end speed at the ends of the race.
4a OM 4+	8:45	All Three to Final 2
	Place	Lane	Name	Time
	1	2	Brown/Smith/Klugh/Murray/Mulligan	06:01.1
	2	3	Protz/Simon/Mueller/Crotty/Cipollone	06:08.9
	3	1	Gillis/Prectal/Beery/Johnson/Redding	06:13.1
This was a great race for about 450 meters, all three across duking it out within seats of each other. However, when the crews finally settled into cruising speed, the PTC A boat walked away with the race, leading by open water most of the way.
5a HPL 2-	9:00	Top Three to Final 2
	Place	Lane	Name	Time
	1	3	Smith/Peschel	06:34.4
	2	4	Davis/Sanders	06:34.5
	3	2	Miller/Ruckman	06:39.1
	4	1	Johnson/Matiasek	06:40.7
Outstanding race, with the Malta pair continuing to exhibit an even-splitting strategy that makes them tremendously dangerous in the second 1000. (Note that these two athletes will represent the USA in the Pan Am Games as the LW Men's 2x; that's right, they'll be sculling in the double.) The Smith/Peschel pair led for most of the race, although the Malta pair drew nearly even with 500 to go. The ensuing 500 meters was some of the most heated racing I've seen on American soil this year, with neither crew giving any quarter whatsoever. When it appeared that the Malta crew would win the heat, the PTC crew dug just a little deeper, squirted their bow across the finish line first to win by about a foot.
6a HPL 1x	9:15 AM	Top Three to Final 2
	Place	Lane	Name	Time
	1	3	Belden	06:58.5
	2	4	Wessells	07:04.5
	3	2	Kaplan	07:11.3
	4	1	Wise	07:14.3
Bill Belden, whose Dad used to row some himself, seems to be coming into his own as a single sculler. He handled this race with poise and confidence, and was never really challenged, even tho there was a fairly hot race for the other positions for some time.
8a FPL 2-	10:00 AM	Both to Final 2
	Place	Lane	Name	Time
	1	2	Muri/Anderson	07:20.0
	2	3	Ackerman/Heere	07:25.8
Won fairly easily by Muri and Anderson, who rowed in the Nat. Champ Brown 2-seat this year.

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