Jan. 8, 2012
LONG BEACH, Calif.-- Stanford finished in second place after the final day of the Rose Bowl Regatta, finishing nine points behind Navy in a tightly contested top-five.
The Cardinal were four points down after day one, and after seven races, finished with 72 combined points. Navy, which had the lead over the other 28 competitors throughout the two days of competition, finished with 61 points.
St. Mary's College of Maryland (77 points), Georgetown (78) and College of Charleston (79) closed out the top-five, as seven points separated second through fifth place.
The A Division team of Kieran Chung-Wolf and Yuri Namikawa finished with 29 points, second in the division after placing between sixth and ninth over the three Sunday races. Overall they finished in the top-nine in all seven races.
The B Division of Sally Mace and Haley Kirk finished with 43 points, fifth-best in the division after finishing from first to 11th through the five second-day races. After finishing better than seventh over the first five races, Mace and Kirk finished 11th and ninth to close out the regatta.
Stanford is now off until February 11-12 when it host the first two regional regattas at Redwood Shores.
Scores:
72 points, 2nd of 29 teams and seven races
scores.collegesailing.info/f11/rose-bowl-2012/
A: Chung and Namikawa, 29 points
B: Mace and Kirk, 43 points