Our "B" boat defeats Cambridge

Last week our "B" Men's Eight was over in England to race Cambridge University as a tune-up for them before the famed Boat Race with Oxford. Each year both Oxford & Cambridge do this to get experience racing a top international crew as their final preparation.
Our B boat is by no means a bunch of slouches.....they are fast and they proved it beating them by 1.5 lengths in the first 7 minute piece and then 4 lengths in the next 7 minute piece. It was kind of funny as the margins were reported in the paper as much smaller than they actually were but who cares....a win is a win. What ever makes them feel better.

The official boat race takes place on March 29. If you are interested in more info you can check out
http://www.theboatrace.org/

Here is a press release about the race.
http://www.sirc.ca/news_view.cfm?id=20001

In the past 4 or 5 years we have had many Canadians in the victorious boats and they have also held the title of president twice at Cambridge and once at Oxford over that time. With this being an Olympic year the level of oarsman is not nearly as high usual, but the British love this race nonetheless.