A Battle in the Rain.

As most East Coast Coaches donned rain slicks and knee high boots to muck through the Ankle deep muck of the Cooper, and Carnegie, Buffalo paraded a deep squad of Varsity women down the course at the Knecht, Harvard beat Brown in the Basin, Yale HW Men beat Dartmouth in New Haven, the Harvard lights trounced Dartmouth sweeping the Biglin Bowl and the Yale and Penn Varsity 150's bested Columbia in New York.

Racing is now in full effect as national team hopefulls took to Mercer Lake for the first installation of their Spring racing series in the form of the Spring Speed Order. Andy Quinn, of Undine Barge Club and Rutgers University won the men's light single in a time of 7:25.953 followed in short order by USRowing's Tom Paradiso, GMS's Jonathan Winter, and USRowing/Malta's Shane Madden. Pocock's Keneth Mcmahon and Vesper's Dan Scholz rounded out the "A" final.

The Lightweight women's single was won by Abby Broughton and followed by Meghan Sarbanis and Kristin Hedstrom.

In Michelle Guerette's absense Margot Shumway won the women's 1x in 7:57.