Four freshmen led the College of Charleston coed sailing team to its third points victory of the fall season at the North Points #5 regatta hosted by Georgia Tech on Oct. 18 in Atlanta, Ga.
Elizabeth Pemberton (Osterville, Mass.) and Katherine Matheson (San Diego, Calif.) sailed in A-Division, while Sean Donahue (East Dennis, Mass.) and Holley Toppa competed in B-Division. The Cougars were able to post a near-perfect score line to bring home the win (14 points) over second-place Clemson by a 22-point margin of victory.
College of Charleston previously won the Clemson-hosted #2 regatta on Sept. 21 and the UNCW-hosted #4 on Oct. 11.
At the Navy Fall regatta, the Cougars (456 points) beat out 18 other top collegiate teams to take second overall behind top-ranked Yale (277 points). They also finished runner-up at the same four-division event a year ago – arguably one of the toughest regattas of the season for the coed dinghy sailors.
Junior Jake Reynolds (San Diego, Calif.) skippered A-Division to a fifth-place finish with senior All-American crew Ali Blumenthal (Bellport, N.Y.) in races 1-3 and junior crew Beka Schiff (Tampa, Fla.) in races 4-15.
In B-Division, junior skipper Ryan Davidson (Newport Beach, Calif.) and senior skipper Alex Whipple (Manhasset, N.Y.) led the Cougars to a fifth-place finish with junior crew Emily Stuart (Newport, R.I.). Junior Dodge Rees (Pensacola, Fla.) placed 10th in the laser C-Division and junior Reed Baldridge (Clear Lake, Texas) second behind Joseph Kiss of Yale in the radial D-Division.
CofC will return to action this weekend at the Hoyt Trophy hosted by Brown on Oct. 25-26 in Providence, R.I., and the SAISA Match Race hosted by USF on Oct. 25-26 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
