Trinity won the Division One senior eights and St Michael’s the senior fours and senior pairs at the refixed Metropolitan rowing regatta at Blessington. The programme, run in a very strong tailwind, suffered delays centred around the Grand League time trialling system.
Dublin Metropolitan Regatta, Blessington, Saturday
Men, Eights – Division One: 1 Trinity (senior) 5:51.77, 2 Neptune (snr) 5:58.36. Division Two: 1 Methodist College (jun 18B) 5:56.7, 2 Trinity (nov) 5:59.1, 3 UCD (nov) 5:59.1; 8 Commercial (jun 16) 6:56.0.
Fours – Division One: 1 St Michael’s (snr) 6:31, 2 Trinity (inter) 6:34, Bann (jun 18) 6:36. Division Two (coxed) – A Final: 1 Trinity (novice) 6:38.6, 2 Cappoquin (nov) 6:39.8, 3 UCD (nov) 6:46.0, 4 Bann (junior 18B) 6:47.1. B Final: UCD (nov) 7:03.6.
Pair – Division One: 1 St Michael’s (snr) 6:45.7, 2 Trinity (under-23) 6:47.6, 3 Commercial B (snr) 6:49.6, 4 Bann (jun 18A) 7:03; 8 UCD (inter) 7:16.6.
Sculling, Quadruple – Division One: 1 Skibbereen 7:08, 2 Neptune 7:19.
Double – Division One – 1 Castleconnell (jun 18A) 6:36, 2 Commercial (jun 18A) 6:41, 3 Skibbereen (snr) 6:42; 6 St Michael’s (intermediate) 6:47.
Single – Division One: 1 Skibbereen (P O’Donovan; jun 18A) 6:55, 2 Skibbereen (Murphy; u-23) 7:08, 3 Castleconnell (Sheehan; jun 18A) 7:09, 4 Lee (O’Connell; u-23) 7:09, 5 Neptune (Bailey; snr) 7:10; 7 St Michael’s (O’Shea) 7:19. Division Two – A Final: 1 Neptune (Griffin; nov) 7:24.0, 2 Lee (Twomey-Thomson; jun 18B) 7:35.4, 3 Castleconnell (jun 18B) 7:36.7. B Final: Lee (Butler; jun 16) 7:47.4.
Women
Four – Division One: 1 UCD (snr) 7:03.7, 2 Neptune (jun 18) 7:24.5, 3 UCD (inter) 7:28.5.
Sculling, Double – Division One: 1 Killorglin 7:20, 2 Skibbereen (snr) 7:21, 3 Old Collegians 7:23, 4 Commercial 7:27, 5 Skibbereen (jun 18A) 7:33.
Single – Division One – A Final: 1 Killorglin (M Dukarska; snr) 7:51.6, 2 Skibbereen (Dinneen; jun 18A) 8:03.6, 3 Skibbereen (Connolly; jun 18A) 8:13.6, 4 Skibbereen (Hosford; lightweight) 8:14.8. B Final: 1 Bann (S Allen; jun 18A) 8:27.3, 2 Neptune (Leahy; inter) 9:01.5.