The No. 12 St. Mary's College of Maryland open sailing team captured the Washington College Open Team Race this past weekend (Mar. 16-17) while taking fifth at the Graham Hall Team Race. The Seahawks women's sailing team came in 13th at the SMCM Women's Fleet Race.
 
WASHINGTON COLLEGE TEAM RACE
The 12th-ranked Seahawks bested the eight-team field with a 9-1 record after winning a sail-off with No. 11 Tufts University to break the tie.
 
St. Mary's College went undefeated in Round 1, notching a 7-0 mark, including a 1-2-3 finish over host Washington College. In the Top 4 round, SMCM logged a 2-1 record as the Seahawks lost to Tufts (3-5-6) force the sail-off.
 
Skippering for the Seahawks were junior Max Kleha (Huntington Beach, Calif./Mater Dei), sophomore Jonathan Weed (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck), and first-year Nathan Jensen (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln-Sudbury Regional) while juniors Brooke Bertrand (Costa Mesa, Calif./Orange Coast College), Henry Haddon (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman), and Indiana Theurer (Virginia Beach, Va./Tidewater CC) contributed as the crew.
 
GRAHAM HALL TEAM RACE
No. 12 St. Mary's College finished the Graham Hall Team Race with an 11-4 record to finish fifth in the 16-team field. The Seahawks collected a pair of 1-2-3 finishes over No. 16 College of Charleston and George Washington University.
 
Top-ranked Harvard University captured the Graham Hall Team Race with an impressive 17-1 mark, only losing to No. 4 Brown University in the final four.

Senior captain Madison Bashaw (Newport Beach, Calif./Newport Harbor) and juniors Charlie Anderson (Annapolis, Md./Key) and Owen Hennessey (Washington, D.C./Severn) served as the skippers this weekend while seniors Rachel O'Neill (Gambrills, Md./South River) and Katherine Shermock (Columbia, Md./Long Reach), junior captain Zoe Hoctor (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary's), and sophomore Raam Fox (Annapolis, Md./Severn) joined in as the crew.
 
ST. MARY'S WOMEN'S INTERCONFERENCE
The Seahawks placed 13th in the 15-team field with 267 points down on the St. Mary's River.
 
With first-year Lina Carper (Carlsbad, Calif./Coronado) as the skipper and junior Lillian Newman (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck) as the crew, SMCM came in fifth in Division A. The duo collected six top-3 finishes, including winning Race 10B.
 
The Division A boat finished 13th with 170 points behind the efforts of sophomore Cho-Cho Williams (Norfolk, Va./Granby), senior Lily Flack (Stonington, Conn./Marine Science Magnet), and sophomore Emily Shioutakon (Rockville, Md./Good Counsel).
 
No. 9 Charleston took top honors with a low score of 132, besting No. 11 Tulane University, who finished second, by 16 points.
 
Up Next for the Seahawks

• Mar. 23-24 – Seahawks Women's Team Race – St. Mary's City, Md. (Teddy Turner Waterfront) – 10 am
• Mar. 23-24 at Admiral Moore Team Race – Throggs Neck, N.Y. (Maritime College) – 10 am
• Mar. 23-24 at Hanbury Trophy – Newport News, Va. (Christopher Newport University) – 10 am

 
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