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Hi Everyone.

A quick re-cap of the Lowell Invite. First off, I want to thank all of the parents and athletes for helping out Saturday. The T-storms made life a bit more interesting than we’d like, and I think the kids did a great job getting work done then making their way to the buses for safety. For the parents, thank you for backing us up and holding down the fort!

The Novice Boys were on the water when the T-storm rolled through, thanks to great work by the Lowell regatta staff the boats were off the water and the kids got to safety in an expedient fashion. Unfortunately, the novice boys were not able to race, although they did get a row down the course after retrieving their shells from the staging area.

On to the results:

The Varsity girls competed in five events, taking Silver in all of them. Crews bringing home the medals were the 1st Varsity 8, 2nd Varsity 8, 3rd Varsity 8, Lwt. 4, and pair. The open four was scheduled to race in the late afternoon, unfortunately racing was cancelled shortly after they launched. The novice girls won Flight “A,” making a turn around on crews from CRI and Essex that they lost to the previous week, besting the field by 3 seconds. The Novice girls “B” boat came home with bronze medals, finishing 3rd in the 3rd flight to CRI “B” and Hanover “B.”
The Varsity Boys pair started off the day with a silver medal, nipped by a crew from Brookline by 1 second. Both the 2nd and 3rd Varsity 8s finished 2nd, taking home some hardware. The Boys Lightweight 8 raced in the Open Varsity 8 category, finishing 4th to strong openweight competition from Bromfield, Hingham, and Northampton. Capping off the results, the Boys Lightweight 4s finished 2nd and 4th respectively.

Overall Wayland-Weston finished 2nd in the team points standings!

I’ll have the information for Northeast Regionals out tomorrow, I’m hoping to have heat assignments by then! For now the preliminary schedule is posted on www.regattacentral.com.

–Matt

Invitational Photos Available

See Wayland-Weston Invitational Regatta photos at  Joe Provenzano’s Repechange Photography site, http://repechage.smugmug.com/.

Other news of interest…

• Town Crier Sports Correspondents Margo Cox and Henry Gula recap in fine journalistic fashion a memorable week of fours and eights racing in which we hosted top-flight crews including National Championship gold, silver and bronze medalists:
  • “Wayland-Weston boys crew faces the iron,” http://www.wickedlocal.com/weston/sports/x289800414/Wayland-Weston-boys-crew-faces-the-iron
  • “Wayland-Weston girls crew pitted against elite,” http://www.wickedlocal.com/wayland/sports/x1560843604/Wayland-Weston-girls-crew-pitted-against-elite
• Wayland voters this week have an opportunity to green-light the Recreation Department’s plans for a new beach house at Town Beach.  Mark your calendar for voting this Tuesday and Thursday, more info at Wayland eNews http://waylandenews.com/wordpress/elections-2010/debt-exclusion-beach-house-plans/, Friends of Wayland Town Beach, http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=163444251118, or contact Recreation Director Nancy McShea, nmcshea@wayland.ma.us or 508.358-3662.
• Join us for this month’s meeting of the Friends of Cochituate State Park, Wednesday, May 12, 6-7 p.m. at State Park HQ, 93 Commonwealth Road (Rt. 30), Wayland.  Refreshments will be served.  Visit the Friends at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=205398925526.
• Mike Lowery and the Wayland Surface Water Quality Committee continue their excellent work, in partnership with DCR, Natick, Framingham and others to keep North Pond free of Eurasian milfoil.  Check out the latest progress at  http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Wayland-MA/Wayland-Surface-Water-Quality-Committee/112331025458392.
• If you missed last month’s live broadcast of The Boat Race on BBC America, or if you’d like to see Oxford and Cambridge go at it again, the Beeb has posted streaming video of the race, which runs about 19 minutes, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/rowing/8601964.stm.