College of Charleston
SAISA Open N/S #1
Cougars Maneuver Tough Course Conditions To Win SAISA Open
9/14/2015 1:28:00 AM | Sailing
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – The College of Charleston coed sailing team commenced its fall season with the SAISA Open regatta held on Saturday and Sunday at the J. Stewart Walker Sailing Complex.
Gold cups and windward-leeward courses were used to score 14 races in both A-and B-Divisions in Southwest winds ranging from 6-18 mph on the Cooper River in front of the USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor. CofC and the rest of the SAISA field saw the maximum ebb and flood tides, which created dynamic racing.
The Cougars won the 17-team regatta by 22-point margin of victory over second-place Jacksonville (106 points). Eckerd College was third (110), South Florida fourth (138), Florida fifth (143), Georgia Tech sixth (228), Miami (Fla.) seventh (229), Florida State eighth (254), Duke ninth (264), Clemson 10th (281), NC State 11th (282), UNCW 12th (291), New College of Florida 13th (329), South Carolina 14th (338), Tennessee 15th (358), The Citadel 16th (410) and Georgia 17th (459).
Debuting in their first collegiate race for the Cougars was freshman skipper Charles Willard with freshmen crew Maura Lonergan (races 1-9) and Caroline Bracken (races 10-14) in A-Division and freshman skipper Carter Cameron in B-Division with freshmen crew McCloy Dickson (1-3, 10-12) and Annabel Carrington (4-9, 13-14).
“Our young group of Cougars sailed well today in some tricky conditions,” CofC Head Coach Ward Cromwell said. “Limiting errors and staying consistent was key. Today was a great start to what will certainly be a great fall season of competition for us.”
CofC continues fall competition next at the Leukemia Cup Offshore event to be held on Sept. 26-27 at the J. Stewart Walker Sailing Complex as well as travel to road regattas at the SAISA Men's Singlehanded on Sept. 26 in Jacksonville, Fla., the Hinman Team Race on Sept. 26-27 in Annapolis, Md., North Points #3 on Sept. 26 in Clemson, S.C. and the St. Mary's Intersectional on Sept. 26-27 in St. Mary's, Md.
