First Varsity 4 Opens Clemson Invitational With A Win on Friday Night

Friday, April 13

Clemson, S.C.

6:00 PM

Indiana University

Clemson Invitational

First Varsity 4 Opens Clemson Invitational With A Win on Friday Night

4/13/2018 9:53:00 PM | Women's Rowing

VIDEO: Watch Entire Session I Results

CLEMSON, South Carolina – With inclement weather in the forecast for later in the weekend, the Clemson Invitational got started on Friday night rather than Saturday morning as scheduled. That change in the schedule did not deter the 17th-ranked Hoosiers and the First Varsity 4 from winning its heat by over three seconds with No. 12 Wisconsin in second place.

The 1V4 used a time of 7:06.45 to claim their heat on Friday, with Wisconsin checking in second in a time of 7:09.73 and Duke in third out of seven crews with a time of 7:16.32.

The final heat of the night put the Indiana First Varsity 8 up against Wisconsin, Duke, Louisville, Oregon State, Northeastern and Boston University. After Wisconsin crossed the line in first place, it was Indiana and Duke battling it out for second place approximately four seconds behind. In the end, it would be the Blue Devils finishing less than a half-second ahead of Indiana's time of 6:27.70.

The Second Varsity 8 performed well in their opening heat in Clemson, finishing second to Wisconsin by 6.35 seconds and ahead of Oregon State and Duke by comfortable margins.

Earlier in the session, the Second Varsity 4 placed third in their heat in a time of 7:18.39, with Ohio State taking first place and Duke in second place. And the Novice 8 placed seventh in their heat, trailing the winning crew from Ohio State by 31.63 seconds.

The Clemson Invitational will resume Saturday morning with the 1V8 crews getting the session started at 8:30 a.m. The 2V8 will follow at 9:04 a.m. before the 1V4 (9:30 a.m.), 2V4 (9:56 a.m.) and Novice 8 (10:14 a.m.) round out the session.

Then the finals will begin at 5:00 p.m. Saturday evening where the Invitational champions will be decided. Live video of all of the races is available on Facebook.com/ClemsonRowing while live results are available via HereNOW.com.

First Varsity 8
Coxswain: Leah Jade Hughes
8. Madison Wright
7. Emily Schutzman
6. Abigail Armstrong
5. Allison Spencer
4. Antonia Frappell
3. Emily Wasz
2. Sienna Patty
1. Hillary Shinnick

Friday Evening
1. Wisconsin - 6:23.87
2. Duke - 6:27.23
3. Indiana - 6:27.70
4. Louisville - 6:29.88
5. Oregon State - 6:32.44
6. Northeastern - 6:34.41
7. Boston - 6:44.39

Second Varsity 8
Cox: Morgan McKay
8. Jordan Miller
7. Maddie Pierce
6. Liz Saunders
5. Lauren Woodgate
4. Abby Bogovich
3. Maggie Bornhorst
2. Rosie Munro
1. Paige Spiller

Friday Evening
1. Wisconsin - 6:27.00
2. Indiana - 6:33.35
3. Oregon State - 6:37.92
4. Duke - 6:40.07
5. Northeastern - 6:40.39
6. Louisville - 6:40.83
7. Cornell - 7:17.25

First Varsity 4
Cox: Madison Chaplin
4. MC Webb
3. Ellie Meinzer
2. Elle Eichorst
1. Connie Brahm

Friday Evening
1. Indiana - 7:06.45
2. Wisconsin - 7:09.73
3. Duke - 7:16.32
4. Louisville - 7:19.79
5. Oregon State - 7:21.14
6. Northeastern - 7:37.73
7. Boston - 8:12.86

Second Varsity 4
Cox: Sam Klein
4. Emma Lawrie
3. Larissa Moffat
2. Leslie Beatty
1. Melanie Hampton

Friday Evening
1. Ohio State 7:11.52
2. Duke 7:16.26
3. Indiana 7:18.39
4. Clemson A 7:21.14
5. Tennessee 7:24.64
6. Oklahoma 7:30.06
7. Northeastern 7:39.37

First Novice 8
Cox: Kendall Sharpe
8: Elizabeth Hardy
7: Grace Horan
6: Nicole Conway
5: Lindsay Geringer
4: Carolina Lopes
3: Maddie Barnhart
2: Ashley Durall
1: Eleanor Conn

Friday Evening (time behind 1st place)
1 Ohio State N
2 Minnesota N - (+4.87)
3 Syracuse - (+5.38)
4 UCLA - (+7.31)
5 Navy - (+20.81)
6 Tennessee - (+31.12)
7 Indiana N - (+31.63)

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