Oct. 31, 2010
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. / NEW LONDON, Conn.-- Stanford Sailing edged Hawai'i by one point to win the Pacific Coast Conference's Women's Fall Championships, while across the country, the Cardinal were seventh at the Victorian Coffee Urn New England Women's Championships.
The third conference title for the Cardinal this fall, came down to the final race. After Stanford led after day one, the Wahine's A and B divisions combined to finish either first or second in every race but one on day two. That final race, proved to be the difference.
The B Division skippered by Molly McKinney finished in third place, while the Wahine were sixth, giving Stanford the one-point win, 66-to-67. Stanford had led by nine points after the first 10 races of day one and had beaten Hawai'i just once, prior to the final race—winning the first race on Sunday.
McKinney's team finished with a B Division-low of 32 points, winning five of the 14 races, and in the top-three in 12 races. They were never lower than fourth. The A Division, skippered by Sally Mace had 34 points, finishing second in the division.
At the New England Women's Championships, the B Division squad skippered by Hannah Burroughs finished with 87 points, the fourth-best in the division. Overall the Cardinal had 193 points for seventh place, with the A Division team skippered by Eliza Richartz tallying 106 points.
The three-day singlehanded nationals is at the University of South Florida next weekend, with freshmen Oliver Toole, Sally Mace and Molly McKinney all set to compete.
Victorian Coffee Urn (7th-193 points)
(A: Richartz, Lund-106; B: Burroughs, Yu-87)
http://regatta.mit.edu/f10/victorian-coffee-urn/
Women's Fall PCC Championships (1st-66 points)
(A: Mace, Riklin-34; B: McKinney, Clayter-32)
http://regatta.mit.edu/f10/2010-women-fall-pcc/