Y150 sweeps Johnson Cup

(March 31) The Yale lightweights opened their spring season today on the neutral waters of Carnegie Lake against Navy. The 9th edition of the Johnson Cup rivalry with Navy was all Yale Blue today as the Bulldogs won all four races of the regatta. The 3V started things off with the closest race of the day, besting their Navy counterparts as well as the Navy 2F. The freesh then faced their first race as Elis, and they responded with a great effort to lead the race from the get-go. A Navy crab in the 2nd thousand helped increase the Yale lead to a final margin of 25 seconds. The 2V race was a hard-fought contest, with Yale taking a length lead early and pushing that out to a 4.15 second win. But winning the Johnson Cup was foremost on Y150 minds, and it would take a good row from start to finish to bring the Johnson Cup back to New Haven for the 5th time in 9 years. The Elis got that good effort, and an near-9-second win was the result. This was Yale’s biggest margin of victory ever in Johnson Cup competition, and the largest since 2008. 
Next week the Bulldogs travel to Cambridge to race M.I.T. and Georgetown.