Sunday, April 27
Pelham, N.Y. (Orchard Beach Lagoon)
3:40 p.m.
Columbia
vs
DARTMOUTH (Subin Cup)
Lightweight Rowers Lose Subin Cup by Less Than One Second
4/27/2008 12:00:00 AM | Lightweight Rowing
PELHAM, N.Y. ? Never give up.
Those sentiments have been expressed many times and in many ways throughout history. Most recently, they could have been uttered by the nine members of the Dartmouth varsity eight-oared shell, who spent most of the featured 2000-meter Subin Cup race at the Orchard Beach Lagoon Sunday trying to catch up with a strong Columbia team.
Columbia had opened up a substantial lead in the second 500 meters over the 2007 Eastern Sprints champion, expanding it to a full length by the 1000-meter midway point.
The Lions, hoping for a Cup victory in their final regular-season race, still led by that margin as the two teams roared into the final 500 meters. There were perhaps 200 meters to go when Dartmouth, which had not succumbed to desperation rowing, made its move.
"We did not handle their move," Columbia head coach Scott Alwin said, thinking back to those final meters. "We couldn't handle the lead."
As cheering fans roared from the bank, the Big Green pulled level with the Lions, and then pulled ahead, ever so slightly. The Dartmouth boat crossed the finish line slightly more than a bow deck ahead of Columbia, just 6/10 of a second in front with a time of 5:51.4 to Columbia's 5:52.0.
Alwin, a keen student of his sport, had to admire his opponents.
"Dartmouth did an outstanding job," he said. "They showed a lot of composure and belief that they could win that race. They showed why they won the Sprints last spring; I don't know how many of that boat's crew was in this boat today, but there were enough. They showed that kind of belief."
But Alwin and his crew were in agony over the race. It was, the coach said, "incredibly frustrating, more frustrating than any race I've ever [coached]."
Far more rewarding for the Lions was a second consecutive excellent showing by the freshman eight. One day after beating both Cornell and MIT in the Geiger Cup Regatta, the Columbia freshmen led almost the entire race to beat Dartmouth by 10 seconds, 6:04.4 to 6:14.3.
The Big Green was competitive only at the start. "We've been bothered by slower starts," freshman coach Ed Golding said. "Once we were past the first 500, we rowed constant throughout the race."
"It was," Golding noted, "a solid end to a solid weekend."
Columbia will spend the next few weeks preparing for the Eastern Sprints, which will be held Sunday May 18 on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Bill Subin was on hand to present the Subin Cup to Dartmouth. A Big Green coxswain while attending Dartmouth, Subin went on to graduate from Columbia Law School. He also coached the Lions in the late 1960's.
The results:
The Subin Cup
Columbia-Dartmouth
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Orchard Beach Lagoon, Pelham, N.Y.
Varsity Eights
1. Dartmouth, 5:51.4
2. Columbia, 5:52.0
Second Varsity Eights
1. Dartmouth, 5:58.3
2. Columbia, 6:11.4
3. Dartmouth 3V, 6:30.3
Freshman Eights
1. Columbia, 6:04.4
2. Dartmouth, 6:14.3
Those sentiments have been expressed many times and in many ways throughout history. Most recently, they could have been uttered by the nine members of the Dartmouth varsity eight-oared shell, who spent most of the featured 2000-meter Subin Cup race at the Orchard Beach Lagoon Sunday trying to catch up with a strong Columbia team.
Columbia had opened up a substantial lead in the second 500 meters over the 2007 Eastern Sprints champion, expanding it to a full length by the 1000-meter midway point.
The Lions, hoping for a Cup victory in their final regular-season race, still led by that margin as the two teams roared into the final 500 meters. There were perhaps 200 meters to go when Dartmouth, which had not succumbed to desperation rowing, made its move.
"We did not handle their move," Columbia head coach Scott Alwin said, thinking back to those final meters. "We couldn't handle the lead."
As cheering fans roared from the bank, the Big Green pulled level with the Lions, and then pulled ahead, ever so slightly. The Dartmouth boat crossed the finish line slightly more than a bow deck ahead of Columbia, just 6/10 of a second in front with a time of 5:51.4 to Columbia's 5:52.0.
Alwin, a keen student of his sport, had to admire his opponents.
"Dartmouth did an outstanding job," he said. "They showed a lot of composure and belief that they could win that race. They showed why they won the Sprints last spring; I don't know how many of that boat's crew was in this boat today, but there were enough. They showed that kind of belief."
But Alwin and his crew were in agony over the race. It was, the coach said, "incredibly frustrating, more frustrating than any race I've ever [coached]."
Far more rewarding for the Lions was a second consecutive excellent showing by the freshman eight. One day after beating both Cornell and MIT in the Geiger Cup Regatta, the Columbia freshmen led almost the entire race to beat Dartmouth by 10 seconds, 6:04.4 to 6:14.3.
The Big Green was competitive only at the start. "We've been bothered by slower starts," freshman coach Ed Golding said. "Once we were past the first 500, we rowed constant throughout the race."
"It was," Golding noted, "a solid end to a solid weekend."
Columbia will spend the next few weeks preparing for the Eastern Sprints, which will be held Sunday May 18 on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Bill Subin was on hand to present the Subin Cup to Dartmouth. A Big Green coxswain while attending Dartmouth, Subin went on to graduate from Columbia Law School. He also coached the Lions in the late 1960's.
The results:
The Subin Cup
Columbia-Dartmouth
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Orchard Beach Lagoon, Pelham, N.Y.
Varsity Eights
1. Dartmouth, 5:51.4
2. Columbia, 5:52.0
Second Varsity Eights
1. Dartmouth, 5:58.3
2. Columbia, 6:11.4
3. Dartmouth 3V, 6:30.3
Freshman Eights
1. Columbia, 6:04.4
2. Dartmouth, 6:14.3
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