NAC sparkles

LIDO CHANNEL - Spectators at the 17th annual Newport Autumn Rowing

Festival on Sunday were treated to ideal conditions for enjoying crew

races, and host Newport Aquatic Center found the same sort of conditions,

en route to dominating the competition.

Lining bridges across Newport Harbor and rocks along the Bay Bay,

several hundred watched as college and prep teams competed in one of the

most prestigious rowing events in the country.

Junior crew home team Newport Harbor Aquatic Center captured the most

medals at the prep level, taking first and second in Men’s Novice Eight,

first in Women’s Novice Eight, second and third in Women’s Novice Four,

in addition to third-place medals in Men’s and Women’s Varsity Eight and

Men’s Varsity Four.

“This is where our hard work pays off,” said NAC Junior Crew head

coach Rachel Rose. “Our kids have really taken it up a level this fall,

and it shows in the NARF results. We’re looking forward to a terrific

season.”

At the collegiate/open level, UC Berkeley took the gold in three

events - Men’s Varsity Eight, Men’s Novice Eight and Men’s Open Four -

with the “Giant Killers’ of Orange Coast College taking first in Women’s

Novice Eight and third in Men’s Novice Eight.

NAC rowers included doubles national champion Cooper Wessells,

finishing second to Men’s Open Single, Tim Rizzo taking third in Men’s

Lightweight Single, and Anne Kircher finishing third in Women’s

Lightweight Single.

NAC had a strong showing in the Masters events, with first-place

finishes in Men’s Master Four, and Janet Morningstar taking second in

Women’s Master Single. Fifty-six-year-old Bill Burge captured the gold in

Men’s Lightweight Master Silngle.

Next up for the NAC Junior Crew team is the San Diego Fal Crew Classic

Sunday at Mission Bay.

NEWPORT AUTUMN ROWING FESTIVAL

Men’s Open Eight - 1. UC Berkeley A; 2. UC Berkeley A; 3. CSUS; 4.

CSULB A; 5. Newport Beach Rowing Club.

Women’s Open Eight - 1. USC B; 2. USC A; 3. San Diego St. A; 4. San

Diego St. B; 5. Univ. of San Diego.

Men’s Master Eight = 1. Long Beach; 2. San Diego.

Women’s Master Eight - 1. ZLAC; 2. Long Beach.

Men’s Junior Eight - 1. Oakland Strokes A; 2. Berkeley High; 3. NAC B;

4. Long Beach; 5. Oakland Strokes B.

Women’s Junior Eight - 1. LBJC A; 2. Oakland Strokes A; 3. NAC; 4.

Oakland Strokes B; 5. LBJC B.

Men’s Master Four - 1. NAC; 2. SoCal Boat Club.

Women’s Master Four - 1. LBRA;’ 2. LARC; 3. SDRC.

Men’s Open Single - 1. Nikola Stojic (Partizan RC); 2. Cooper Wessells

(NAC); 3. Bob Bennett; 4. Dan Dougherty (LBRA); 2. Tim Whitney (LBRA).

Men’s Lightweight Single - 1. Ron Harvey (LBRA); 2. Tony Gjessing

(LBRA); 3. Tim Rizzo (NAC).

Men’s Master Single - 1. Steve Hathaway (CYC); 2. Duncan Howett

(Pagosa RC); 3. Landon Carter (Pagosa RC); 4. Patt Cotter (CYC); 5. Bill

Erkelens (Pagosa RC).

Men’s Lightweight Master Single - 1. Bill Burge (NAC); 2. Bill Bater

(LBRA); 3. Win Rumsey (North Bay RC); 4. Dave Rich (NAC); 5. Kim Burdick

(NAC); 6. Bill Pawluk (NAC).

Women’s Open Single - 1. Sarah Baldwin; 2. Sabrina Cayton; 3. Amy

McCoy (LBRA); 4. Ala Peitrowski (LBRA); 5. Sara Schreiner (CSUS).

Women’s Lightweight Single - 1. Katrina Lythgoe (SDRC); 2. Christina

(CSUS); 3. Anne Kircher (NAC).

Women’s Master Single - 1. Wendy O’Brien (UCLA-MRC); 2. Janet

Morningstar (NAC); 3. Ellen Braithwaite (Berkeley RC); 4. Jane Toro

(Berkeley RC).

Women’s Lightweight Master Single - 1. Mary Perrot (LBRA); 2. Sonja

Sullivan (SDRC); 3. Olga Fryszman; 4. Winnie Rich (NAC).

Men’s Lightweight Eight - 1. UCLA.

Men’s frosh/novice Eight - 1. UC Berkeley A; 2. UC Berkeley B; 3.

Orange Coast; 4. Loyola Marymount; 5. UCI A.

Women’s frosh/novice Eight - 1. Orange Coast A; 2. Loyola Marymount;

3. San Diego State A; 4. Orange Coast B; 5. U. of San Diego.

Men’s Junior Novice Eight - 1. NAC A; 2. NAC B; 3. Long Beach JC; 4.

San Diego RC A; 5. San Diego RC B.

Women’s Junior Novice Eight - 1. NAC; 2. San Diego RC; 3. Long Beach

JC.

Men’s Open Four - 1. UC Berkeley; 2. UCSB A; 3. UCI A; 4. U. of San

Diego.

Women’s Open Four - 1. CSUS; 2. USC; 3. San Diego St.; 4. U. of San

Diego; 5. UCSB.

Men’s Junior Four - 1. SD RC; 2. Oakland Strokews; 3. NAC.

Women’s Junior Four - 1. Oakland Strokes; 2. NAC B; 3. NAC A.