NEW LONDON, Conn. – The Wesleyan men's crew team took first place in two of three events against Coast Guard in a dual meet on Saturday morning on the Thames River.
 
The Varsity 8 boat (Haley Fish '22 - coxswain, Hayden Galusza '22, Joe Kagan '23, Chris Saade '25, Oliver Diamond '23, Paul Kiyonaga '25, Jimmy McShane '22, Hugo Harrington '25 and Inesh Vytheswaran '25) earned an impressive win with a near-17 second cushion as the Cardinals clocked in at 5:50.9 in the 1800m course, defeating the Bears' V8 boat which had a time of 6:07.8.
 
Wesleyan continued to roll with a win in the second V8 boat (Leo Rosenblum '25 - coxswain, Max Ewing '24, Lucas Pavia '25, Oliver Saffery '23, Freddie Bell '25, Nate Newcomer '25, Theodore Zarobell '24, Finn Brown '23 and Hudson Dore '22), clocking in at 5:58.8 to defeat Coast Guard's squad who came in with a time of 6:05.5.
 
The Bears did manage a win in the third V8 portion, defeating the Cardinals' unit  (Meg Rubenstein '25 - coxswain, Lucas Pavia '25, Nick Dillon '23, Freddie Bell '25, Nate Newcomer '25, Will Gannon '25, Finn Brown '23, Alex Glotzer '25, Nick Jarrett '25) with a time of 6:18.6 compared to 6:25.6 for the Cardinals.
 
The Cardinals return to the water on Saturday when they head to Worcester to compete against WPI, Colby and UMass.