PHILADELPHIA — The Penn men's lightweight rowing team regained possession of the Matthews Cup and Leonard Trophy after narrowly defeating the Cornell men's lightweight rowing team in the first three varsity 8+ races on Saturday morning on the Schuylkill River.

All crews raced on very flat water with variable winds throughout the event, which included cross-to-cross-tail winds, and a moderate flow was present on the 2000-meter course.

Penn won the Leonard Trophy after posting nearly three-second victories in the 3V8+ and 2V8+ events before the Quakers completed their sweep of the hardware by edging Cornell by six-tenths of a second in the 1V8+ race. Harvard ultimately placed first overall in both the 1V8+ (5:31.6) and 2V8+ (5:39.1) events, resulting in the Crimson winning the inaugural Franklin Trophy for their victory in the 1V8+ over Penn.

Cornell's only first-place victory of the day occurred in the first event, where the Big Red's 4V8+ recorded a time of 5:52.5, ahead of Penn's crew at 5:54.7.

RESULTS
1V8+: Harvard (5:31.6), Penn (5:33.0), Cornell (5:33.6)

2V8+: Harvard (5:39.1), Penn (5:44.2), Cornell (5:47.0)

3V8+: Penn (5:43.9), Cornell (5:46.8), Harvard (5:52.7)

4V8+: Cornell (5:52.5), Penn (5:54.7)

BOATINGS
1V8+: Aden Walsey (coxswain), Jack Savell (stroke), Emmett Patterson, Andrew Hohlt, Nathan Bechard, Grant Smith, Peter Albrecht, Sam Alston, Eliott Swinney (bow).

2V8+: Sofia Lago (coxswain), Eric Genden (stroke), Colin Bailey, Rahil Dundon, Connor Eaton, Steven Busby, Owen Brown, Tomas Eliot Foxley, Teddy Holtman (bow).

3V8+: Joycelyn Vu (coxswain), Jack Oliveira (stroke), Patrick Reilly, Gabe Xu, Maximilian Purcea, David Soucie-Garza, Calder Fritz, Jon Mayer, Luke Zaslow (bow).

4V8+: Mia Goldstein (coxswain), Matteo Calalang (stroke), Keaton Lynch, Ryan Aghazadeh, Tyler Forg, John Zegger, Dylan Price, William Fang, Tanas Kazlas (bow).