College of Charleston
ICSA Singlehanded Nationals
Cougars Dominate SAISA/MAISA Race With One-Two-Three Finish
11/7/2011 10:45:00 PM | Sailing
Sailors arrived to a beautiful morning with temperatures in the 40s and a northerly gusting into the mid-20s on Saturday. Led by the A-Division scores of sophomore skipper Grace Lucas (Little Silver, N.J.) and sophomore crew Carly Shevitz (Santa Barbara, Calif.), the Cougars' top squad edged fellow teammates Roy Shaw (Bacliff, Texas), Jeff Aschieris (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Amy Kubie (Norwalk, Conn.) by a mere nine points for top honors in the race. Freshman skipper Melany Johnson (Berwyn, Pa.) and sophomore crew Elizabeth Chambers (Mooresville, N.C.) placed fourth with 64 points.
In the B-Division race, CofC swept the top 3 spots with freshman skipper Chris Sands (Nassau, Bahamas) and freshman crew Tierney Driscoll (Bayport, N.Y.) placing first with 36 points followed by junior skipper Brooks Clark (Newport Beach, Calif.) and freshman crew Connor Murphy (North Andover, Mass.) in second with 38 points and freshman skipper Kayla Gibson (Houston, Texas) and freshman crew Mallory Buechler (Pensacola, Fla.) in third with 52 points.
The Cougars finished ahead of Texas A&M-Galveston (198) and Clemson (147) to round out the top 5 in the 15-team field which also included Georgia Tech, Kean University, Auburn, Maryland, Ocean County College, The Citadel, George Washington, Hampton and Florida Gulf Coast.
Over at the ICSA Nationals in Chicago, senior team captain Zeke Horowitz (Sarasota, Fla.) placed third in the men's singlehanded competition with 84 points after dueling it out in a head-to-head tiebreaker with Christopher Stocke of South Florida. Cam Cullman of Yale took home the title with 57 first-place points.
Horowitz was one of 18 competitors in the men's field and the two-time defending SAISA champion finishing ahead of top sailors from Stanford, Brown, Georgetown, Miami (Fla.), Hobart and William Smith, Cornell, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Wisconsin, Vermont, Oregon and Minnesota.
In women's singlehanded competition, senior Corey Hall (St. Petersburg, Fla.), a three-time nationals qualifier, placed ninth out of 18 sailors in the field with 125 points. Anne Haeger of Boston College won the event with 34 first-place points.
The Cougars will close out their fall regatta season by traveling to the Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championships hosted by MIT on Nov. 12-13 in Boston, Mass., as well as the Atlantic Coast Women's Championship hosted by SUNY Maritime on Nov. 12-13 in Throggs Neck, N.Y.
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