April 22, 2012
HONOLULU / KINGS POINT, NY-- Stanford Sailing won its eighth-straight Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference title, while on the East Coast the coed team finished second at the Admiral Cup.
With the win, the women will join the three-boat team racing at the national championships in Texas at the end of May. The coed team will compete at the conference championships next week in Santa Barbara, as the Cardinal look to complete the trifecta.
In the final tuneup for the coed team, the Cardinal moved up to second place to finish with 344 points, six points ahead of Georgetown. College of Charleston won the event with 315 points.
The B Division did the heavy lifting on day two, as skipper Oliver Toole and his crew of Haley Kirk moved up to a division-low of 89 points, 17 points ahead of the Hoyas and Cougars' 106 points. The duo finished in the top-six among the 19 teams in 15 of 19 races.
Mateo Vargas fell to second place in the laser division with 86 points. The A Division, skippered by Kevin Laube, finished with 169 points.
Admiral's Cup (2nd of 19 teams)
http://scores.collegesailing.org/s12/admiral-cup/full-scores
A: Laube and K. Ortel, 145 points (19 races)
B: Toole and Kirk, 106 points (19 races)
C: Vargas, 64 points (19 races)
PCCSC Women's Championships (1st of 6 teams)
http://scores.collegesailing.org/s12/women-pccsc/full-scores
A: Mace and Scutt/Riklin, 17 points (12 races)
B: McKinney and Babb/Wilson, 17 points (12 races)