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No. T-2 Women’s Rowing Sends Both Boats to Grand Final After Day One of NCAA II National Championship

| By: Kyrin Mayfield
Results
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - Embry-Riddle Women's Rowing has a shot at capturing the program's first NCAA II title on Saturday as the Eagles advanced both boats into the grand final through the repechages on Friday. 

In the early morning heats, the Eagles' eight boat battled top-ranked Cal Poly Humboldt the entire way but came up just short of advancing directly to the final. Thankfully, Embry-Riddle won in both fours and eights in the repechage to move on to the main event. 

ERAU joins Cal Poly Humboldt and Western Washington as the only schools to place both boats in the grand final, so the championship will almost certainly be awarded to one of those three programs. 

THE WATER
  • Course: Mercer Lake
  • Length: 2,000m

THE BOATS
THE RESULTS
Heats
  • V8+ | Embry-Riddle launched out to a slight lead over the Lumberjacks after 500 meters. However, Cal Poly Humboldt got up to speed and passed the Eagles before the halfway point of the race. ERAU remained within a couple of seconds, but the Eagles couldn't close the gap and finished second in the heat by just 1.172 seconds. On the plus side, the Blue and Gold did defeat Jefferson by over 24 seconds.
  • V4+ | ERAU's fours heat was a similar story. Embry-Riddle set the pace at the start, but third-seeded Central Oklahoma then sprinted multiple seconds ahead. ERAU came in second, 4.383 seconds back of the Bronchos but about 28 ticks ahead of Jefferson. 
Repechages
  • V8+ | Embry-Riddle got out to its usual fast start, though this time the Eagles fended off a hard-charging Seattle Pacific squad by 1.7 seconds to clock in at 7:02.739 and advance to the grand final.
  • V4+ | It was a three-way battle in fours for the two transfer slots between Embry-Riddle, Western Washington and Seattle Pacific. Again, the Eagles led from the start, but the Vikings and Falcons kept in contact. With 500 meters to go, the Blue and Gold sped away from Seattle Pacific and claimed the victory to also move on to the grand final. The Eagles' time of 7:49.422 was just fast enough to hold off Western Washington by eight tenths of a second.

UP NEXT
Embry-Riddle begins its final day of action at 8:40 a.m. on Saturday with the fours grand final while the eights will launch at 8:56 a.m.
 
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