November 22, 2004
Washington Second at SAISA/MAISA
Best Regatta Finish this Fall for WAC

CHARLESTON, SC -- The Washington College sailing team finished off its fall 2004 schedule in impressive fashion over the weekend, finishing second of 17 schools at the SAISA/MAISA Regatta, an intersectional regatta hosted by the College of Charleston. The second-place finish for WAC was its best regatta finish this fall.

Washington finished just one point shy of winning a co-ed intersectional regatta for the second time in team history, totaling 36 points. Twentieth-ranked Charleston won the regatta with 35 points. WAC was 14 points better than third-place Pennsylvania, which finished with 50 points. The regatta was limited to six races in each division on Saturday, as Sunday's races were canceled due to lack of wind. Saturday's races were sailed in a light westerly breeze of 3-8 knots.

Junior skipper Carl Horrocks (Point Pleasant, NJ/Point Pleasant Boro) and freshman crew Alexandria Starks (Toms River, NJ/Monsignor Donovan) finished fourth in A Division for Washington. Horrocks and Starks finished seventh in the opening A Division race, but placed in the top five in each of the final five races. Horrocks and Starks finished first in the final race in A Division.

Senior skipper Colin Robertson (Annapolis, MD/St. Mary's) and freshman crew Nicole Luckett (Centreville, MD/Chestertown Christian Academy) sailed to a second-place finish in B Division. Robertson and Luckett placed in the top four in each of the B Division races and won two of them, including the final race.