Finals are now set following Wednesday's racing at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Rowing on Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J. Referred to as the non-qualified small boat trials, the regatta features racing in the men's single sculls, lightweight women's double sculls and lightweight men's double sculls.
As suggested here yesterday, the light men's double only seems to be tightening up as the week goes on; the respective semifinal times of the crews headed to the finals shows a separation of four second across the field, with Aller and Frase continuing nonetheless to show the most reliable speed and confidence thus far. I don't think it wise to count out any of these doubles, however; I would withhold judgment until Friday (at least).
The boilerplate: In the lightweight men's double sculls, the California Rowing Club/Potomac Boat Club duo of Michael Aller (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Gavin Frase (Orinda, Calif.) recorded the fastest time of the semifinals. Racing in the first of two semis, Aller and Frase clocked a 6:29.24 to finish just under three seconds ahead of the Malta Boat Club/Penn AC combination of Bjorn Larsen (Lake Stevens, Wash.) and Richard Montgomery (Batavia, Ill.). With the top two finishers from each semifinal advancing to tomorrow's first final, Larsen and Montgomery defeated Bantam Boat Club's Ben Hutz (Pittsburg, Pa.) and Brian Tryon (Indianapolis, Ind.) by 2.42 seconds to also advance. In the second semifinal, the USRowing Training Center/Bachelor's Barge Club tandem of Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg (Philadelphia, Pa.) and Cody Lowry (Bristow, Okla.) won a three-boat sprint to the finish. The duo crossed the line with a time of 6:31.75. USRowing Training Center's Andy Quinn and Shane Madden (Ambler, Pa.) held off GMS Rowing Center's Brian De Regt (Rowayton, Conn.) and Jonathan Winter (New Haven, Conn.) to finish second. Quinn and Madden finished in a 6:33.20, with De Regt and Winter coming home in a 6:33.75.
In the men's single, Patrick O'Hea and Peter Graves earned spots in tomorrow's four-boat final; they'll be gunning to make it close against heat winners Jurkowski and Dietz.
Boilerplate: California Rowing Club's Patrick O'Hea (Culver City, Calif.) won the repechage, or second-chance race, in the men's single sculls by clocking a 7:09.90. O'Hea finished a little more than one second ahead of Bantam Boat Club's Peter Graves (Cincinnati, Ohio), who finished with a time of 7:11.25. Penn AC's Stephen Whelpley (Moquon, Wis.) finished third, followed by Atlanta Rowing Club's Jordan Smith (Forestville, Calif.). O'Hea and Graves will join heat winners Ken Jurkowski (New Fairfield, Conn.) and James Dietz (Amherst, Mass.) in the first final. The light women's doubles had a somewhat draconian one-to-advance rep format this morning, although winning margins of 2.5 seconds in the first heat, and over 14 in the second heat, would seem to indicate that the right crews are in the final.
The Boilerplate: With only one crew advancing from each repechage in the lightweight women's double sculls, Vesper Boat Club's Rebecca Smith (Torrington, Conn.) and Hannah Moore (Niskayuna, N.Y.) clocked a 7:17.47 to defeat Pocock Rowing Center's Michelle Trannel (East Dubuque, Ill.) and Liz Patterson (Davis, Calif.) by 2.58 seconds in the first race. Smith and Moore took control of the race as the crews entered the second 1,000 meters. In the second repechage, Vesper's Carey Brezler (Waynesboro, Pa.) and Wendy Tripician (Needham, Mass.) had no trouble defeating the Austin Boat Club/Union Boat Club duo of Lisa Culbertson (Dallas, Texas) and Claudia Wagner (Austin, Texas). Brezler and Tripician crossed the finish line with a time of 7:15.25, more than 14 seconds ahead of Culbertson and Wagner. The two repechage winners join the two heat winners, USRowing Training Center's Jen Goldsack (Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom) and Renee Hykel (Haverford, Pa.) and Vesper's Julie Nichols (Livermore, Calif.) and Libby Peters (Utica, N.Y.), in tomorrow's first final.
The first final starts tomorrow morning at 8.
Results from Wednesday:
#9 M1x Repechage (08:00:00) Official
Place Entry Lane Time
1 California Rowing CLub A (Patrick O'hea) 3 07:09.897
2 Bantam Boat Club B (Peter Graves) 4 07:11.245
3 Penn A.C. Rowing Association I (Stephen Whelpley) 2 07:13.671
4 Atlanta Rowing Club A (Jordan Smith) 5 07:16.698
#10 LW2x Repechage A/B (08:10:00) Official
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Vesper Boat Club A (Rebecca Smith, Hannah Moore) 4 07:17.466
2 Pocock Rowing Center A (Michelle Trannel, Liz Patterson) 3 07:20.045
3 Riverside Composite A (Melissa Rice, Heather Moon) 2 07:21.462
#11 LW2x Repechage A/B (08:20:00) Official
Place Entry Lane Time
1 Vesper Boat Club A (Carey Brezler, Wendy Tripician) 3 07:15.250
2 Austin/Union A (Lisa Culbertson, Claudia Wagner) 4 07:29.700
#12 LM2x Semi-Final A/B (08:30:00) Official
Place Entry Lane Time
1 California Rowing Club/Potomac A (Mike Aller, Gavin Frase) 3 06:29.243
2 Malta BC/Penn AC A (Bjorn Larsen, Richard Montgomery) 4 06:32.212
3 Bantam Boat Club A (Ben Hutz, Brian Tryon) 2 06:34.631
4 Union Boat Club A (Steve Tucker, Aleks Zosuls) 5 06:37.086
#13 LM2x Semi-Final A/B (08:40:00) Official
Place Entry Lane Time
1 USRowing Training Center/Bachelor's (Dan Urevick-ackelsb, Cody Lowry) 3 06:31.747
2 USRowing Training Center H (Andy Quinn, Shane Madden) 4 06:33.195
3 GMS Rowing Center A (Brian Deregt, Jonathan Winter) 2 06:33.750
4 Riverside/Augusta Rowing Club A (Rob Zechmann, Tim Larson) 5 06:39.775
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