#Rowing: Carlow’s Sadhbh Scully and Keara Egan won the junior 18 women’s double at Ghent regatta on Sunday – first of 18 competing crews. Castleconnell won the women’s junior 18 quadruple, another competitive event, with 10 crews completing the course. Both clubs did well over the two days, as did Three Castles, Methodist College, Belfast, Cork and Commercial, whose senior men’s eight took second on the Sunday.
Ghent Spring Regatta, Belgium (Selected Results; Irish interest):
Saturday
Men
Sculling, Quadruple: 3 Lagan Scullers. Junior: 5 Three Castles.
Double – Jun: 3 Three Castles (L Flynn, A Keogh)
Single – Jun: 5 Cork (P Beechinor) 7:41.32.
Women
Eight – Junior: 1 Commercial 7:25.17.
Four – Jun: 1 Castleconnell 7:32.0, 2 Commercial 7:37.27.
Pair - Senior: 2 Anna Liffey (C Dempsey, D Maguire). Under-23: Cork (J Duggan, C O’Sullivan) 8:11.24. Junior: 1 Cork (J Duggan, C O’Sullivan) 7:59.94, 2 Castleconnell (L O’Brien, N Kiely) 8:04.33.
Sculling
Double – Junior: 5 Carlow.
Lightweight Single: 2 Skibbereen (O Hayes). Under-23: 1 Carlow (K Egan) 8:49.25. Junior: 6 Carlow (S Scully).
Sunday
Men
Eight – Senior: 2 Commercial. Four, coxed- Jun 18: 2 Methodist College, Belfast. Junior 16: 2 Castleconnell.
Sculling, Quadruple: 2 Three Castles.
Double – Jun 18: 4 Cork (Beechinor, M Cronin) 7:08.14.
Single – Under-23 Lightweight: 2 Castleconnell (B Frohburg). Jun 18: 3 Three Castles (Flynn), 5 Three Castles (Tiarnan McKnight), 6 Three Castles (Keogh).
Women
Four – Jun: 1 Commercial 7:41.73, 2 Castleconnell.
Pair – Sen: 3 Anna Liffey (Dempsey, Maguire). Under-23: Cork (Duggan, O’Sullivan) 8:47.59. Jun: Cork (Duggan, O’Sullivan) 8:12.36, 3 Commercial.
Sculling, Quadruple – Jun 18: 1 Castleconnell 7:21.72. Jun 16: 3 Castleconnell, 4 Carlow.
Double – Jun 18: 1 Carlow (Scully, Egan) 7:58.26.
Single – Lightweight: 2 Skibbereen (Hayes). Lwt U-23: 1 Carlow (Egan) 8:56.71. Jun 18: 3 Carlow (Scully); 5 Cork (H Gahan).