College of Charleston
Kennedy Offshore Cup
Cougar Sailors Edged at ICSA Nationals
11/9/2015 1:00:00 AM | Sailing
NORFOLK, Va. – The final day of the 2015 LaserPerformance ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship came to a close in dramatic fashion on Sunday.
Eleven total races were sailed over the course of the two-day regatta as the Top 4 boats entered the last race with only five points separating each other. By the halfway point in the race, Malcolm Lamphere of Yale and Juan Perdomo from Harvard began to separate themselves from College of Charleston junior Enrique Arathoon (Guatemala City, Guatemala) and sophomore Stefano Peschiera (Lima, Peru) – the event's defending national champion.
Lamphere (44 points) edged Perdomo (47 points) for the title with a three-point margin of victory, while Arathoon and Peschiera finished third and fourth with 52 points in the 18-boat field. Senior Reed Baldridge (Clear Lake, Texas) would go on to place 10th (115 points).
In the 2015 LaserPerformance ICSA Women's Singlehanded Championship competition, senior Beka Schiff (Tampa, Fla.) placed 10th with two Top-5 finishes in 11 races tallying 119 points. It marked her third-consecutive appearance at singlehanded nationals. Haddon Hughes of Georgetown won the women's title with a regatta-low 30 points.
Meanwhile, 10 offshore sailing teams from around the country were on hand to vie for the Kennedy Cup – the ICSA Big Boat National Championship hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. College of Charleston entered the event as the defending national champion.
Sophomore skipper Marc DeLoach (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.), junior main Noah Blacker (St. Petersburg, Fla.), senior primary trim Brandon Folkman (Redondo Beach, Calif.), senior primary trim Stefan Kuehn (Cutchogue, N.Y.), junior secondary trim Howie Meyers (Bellport, N.Y.), sophomore pitt Corinne Durocher (Monroe, Mich.), sophomore squirrel Jamie Craven, sophomore mast Tristan Scott Nord (Knoxville, Tenn.) and sophomore bow Holly Deuterman (Greensboro, N.C.) led the Cougars to a seventh-place finish (42 points) in the seven-race series won by Cal Maritime with the low score of 21 points.
The Cougars will prep this week for the Atlantic Coast Coed Championships hosted by Old Dominion on Nov. 14-15 in Norfolk, Va., and the Atlantic Coast Women's Championships hosted by St. Mary's College of Maryland on Nov. 14-15 in St. Mary's, Md.
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