ITHACA, N.Y. - The Cornell lightweight rowing team fell to MIT in a pair of races on Saturday morning at the Cayuga Inlet.  The Big Red finished second in both the varsity eight (6:08.3) and second varsity eight (6:28.2) behind MIT, which posted times of 6:06.5 and 6:26.4, respectively.

"MIT's varsity is a great crew. They have 6 returners from their 3rd place IRA crew. I was proud that we raced them to a close margin. I felt like we didn't handle the conditions that well and as a result didn't quite row our best strokes.", Tyler Nase, the Henry E. Bartels '48 Head Coach of Lightweight Rowing mentioned.

"We learned a lot and are back to work in our final prep before sprints. JV has continued to show progress, but gave up about a length off the start. It was awesome to see them battle back the entire last 1k, but came up short.", Nase concluded with.

Complete results can be found HERE

Cornell Boatings:

1st Varsity
Cox - Rhea Kaycee
8 - Gabriel Xu
7 - Max Purcea
6 - Colin Bailey 
5 - Nathan Bechard
4 - Cruz Erdmann
3 - Teddy Holtman
2 - Owen Brown
Bow - Eliott Swinney

2nd Varsity
Cox - Sophia Lago 
8 - Jonathan Mayer
7 - Samuel Peale
6 - Evan Yang
5 - Nicholas Hlinka
4 - Francis Lau
3 - Neekon Tabatabai 
2 -  Alessandro Zanni 
Bow - Nate Santaniello

Next Up
The Cornell men's lightweight rowing team will return to the water on Sunday, May 17th for the Eastern Sprint Championships.