Nov. 17, 2007

BOSTON - In the final regatta of the fall season, Boston University men's crew hosted the Foot of the Charles on Saturday, Nov. 17. The 2.4 mile race began at MIT's Pearce boathouse and finished across from Harvard's Newell boathouse. The Terriers' had six boats in the varsity fours and raced two freshman eights.

BU's "A" varsity 4+ placed second out of 47th crews. Stroked by senior co-captain Brandon Batey (Grimsby, Ont.) crossed the line in 13:35.2. The "B" 4+ finished 13th (13:59.8, while the "D" four placed 28th (14:35.4), the "C" four finished 31st in 14:41.6, the "E" four crossed 35th (14:52) and the "F" four placed 41st (15:28).

In the freshman race, the first eight stroked by Wijnand Schoemakers (Amersfoort, Netherlands) crossed the line in 14:40.4, while the second eight stroked by Mike Schmitt (Haddonfield, N.J.) placed 16th in 14:53.6.

Line Ups

Varsity Fours

"A" boat: cox Marty Yates, bow Graham Leitch, 2 - Josh Novak, 3 - Matt Dunn, stroke Brandon Batey

"B" boat: cox Andrea Rosmann, bow Chris Klotzbach, 2 - Milos Nikolic, 3 - Rich McGovern, stroke Mils Drljic

"C" boat: cox Maria Escallon, bow Matt Galica, 2 - Matt Trevithick, 3 - Nemanja Bekan, stroke Justin Martin

"D" boat: cox Tom Ivancic, bow Andy Fisher, 2 - Ricardo Sinicio-Tessarotto, 3 - Travis Clarke, stroke Nick Anderson

"E" boat: cox Devin Maloney, bow Andre Guzman, 2 - Matt Seminerio, 3 - Jon Czerepak, stroke Steve Pytlar

"F" boat: cox Keval Patel, bow Greg Conway, 2 - Stephan Seitler, 3 - Tom Knightly, stroke Seth McKeen

Freshman Eight

First Freshman: bow Jon Seibler, 2 - Jon Stansel, 3 - James Simoneau, 4 - James Potts, 5 - Christ Kamberos, 6 - Anthony Puentes, 7 - Sjoerd Klem, stroke Wijnand Schoemakers, cox Chris Myers

Second Freshman: bow Hideyoshi Watanabe, 2 - Danny Arbucias, 3 - Evan Appleton, 4 - Erin Bashllari, 5 - Arty Emma, 6 - Richard Su, 7 - James Petersen, stroke Mike Schmitt, cox Bianca Wieczorek