Beavers Finish Fourth, V4+ Races to Bronze

Sunday, May 13

Gold River, CA

9:00 AM

Oregon State

Pac-12 Rowing Championships

Photo by: Karl Maasdam/Oregon State Athletics

May 13, 2018 | Men's Rowing

By: Athletic Communications

GOLD RIVER, Calif. – The No. 17 Oregon State men's rowing team earned a fourth-place overall finish at Pac-12 Championships Sunday morning. The Beavers' Varsity 4+ earned a bronze medal as OSU's top finishing crew of the regatta.

"Today's result shows that we still have work to do before the IRA Championships," head coach Gabe Winkler said. "We will wait for the bids to come out on Tuesday but I know our guys can hold their own with the teams out east."

The Beavers' V4+, which was powered by Alex Hernandez, Camron Gharib, Austin Eaton and Gregory Adelman and directed by Ercoli Crugnale, cruised to third place pulling in 12 seconds ahead of Oregon with a time of 7-minutes, 22.661-seconds to medal.

OSU's Third Varsity 8, which defeated Stanford by three seconds last week, couldn't repeat the feat this week. The Cardinal won the sprint to the finish line in a fight for bronze turning in a time of 6:32.267 to the Beavers' 6:34.842.

The Varsity 8, ranked as the No. 17 crew in the country, consisting of Neall Koetje, Baxter Call, Roman Pjajka, Jesse Maritz, Glenn Miller, Jacob Hart, Max McDonald, Hunter Smith and coxed by Ben Garrison, raced to a fourth place finish coming in behind ranked crews from Washington (No. 1), California (No. 2) and Stanford (No. 8).

Oregon State's Junior Varsity 8 was the fourth boat to cross the finish recording a time of 6:24.354, pulling in 12 seconds behind the Cardinal (6:12.583).

The Beavers will await an invitation to the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Championships which will be held at West Windsor, N.J., June 1-3. The IRA Championship field will be announced on Tuesday.

RESULTS:
Team Standings
1 Washington – 72
2 California – 65
3 Stanford – 54
4 Oregon State – 45
5 UCLA – 37
6 Washington State – 34
7 Colorado – 20
8 Oregon – 4

Varsity 8+
1 Washington – 5:51.243
2 California – 5:52.691
3 Stanford – 6:09.293
4 Oregon State – 6:17.323
5 UCLA – 6:32.134
6 Washington State – 6:39.920
7 Colorado – 6:55.544

Junior Varsity 8+
1 Washington – 5:52.994
2 California – 5:58.211
3 Stanford – 6:12.583
4 Oregon State – 6:24.354
5 Washington State – 6:39.440
6 UCLA – 6:42.885
7 Colorado – 7:01.565

Third Varsity 8+
1 Washington – 6:00.616
2 California – 6:05.667
3 Stanford – 6:32.267
4 Oregon State – 6:34.842
5 UCLA – 7:20.259
6 Colorado – 7:26.727

Varsity 4+
1 Washington – 6:41.900
2 California – 6:43.754
3 Oregon State – 7:22.661
4 Oregon – 7:34.317
5 USC – 7:46.303
6 UCLA – 8:09.751

LINEUPS:
Varsity 8: (stroke) Neall Koetje, (7) Baxter Call, (6) Roman Pjajka, (5) Jesse Maritz, (4) Glenn Miller, (3) Jacob Hart, (2) Max McDonald, (bow) Hunter Smith, (coxswain) Ben Garrison.

Junior Varsity 8: (stroke) Sasha Kosek, (7) Jacob Randall, (6) Miles Moran, (5) Alex Carlton, (4) C.J. Wallace, (3) Hunter Rust, (2) Nick Taylor, (bow) Zach Fried, (coxswain) Ercoli Crugnale.

Third Varsity 8: (stroke) Zach Niedermeyer, (7) Ezra Glickman, (6) Nils Patrick, (5) Timothy Shearer, (4) Tyler Gray, (3) Andy McSween, (2) Austin DeMartine, (bow) Max Shaffer, (coxswain) Nick West.

Varsity 4+: (stroke) Alex Hernandez, (3) Camron Gharib, (2) Austin Eaton, (bow) Gregory Adelman, (coxswain) Ercoli Crugnale.

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