The second round of the Hants and Dorset season took place at Newport last weekend. The closest race of the day came down to a canvas win for Southampton over Ryde in the Men’s Junior 4s event.
Itchen took the Men’s Senior 4s title, and BTC took the Senior Women’s title.
Newport also fielded a Novice Men’s 4 of Will Loveday Powell, Connor Garner, Boris Hare, Hayden Tiffin finishing third in the final.
Southampton had the best of the racing overall, winning the Aggregate cup.
Newport Women’s Masters crew
The stand out performance of the day came from the Newport Women’s Masters crew of Julia Wilks, Julia Coulson, Julie Clarke, Fran Ladd, and coxed by Nick Salter.
In their first ever regatta race they won the Masters 40+ event, although the average age of the crew is 58.
In a hard fought race right up until the last quarter, they came out on top holding off the favorites and South Coast Champions from BTC (Southampton) by two lengths to claim the Daisy Rich Trophy.
Small Boats competition
Sunday brought the Small Boats competition. Connor Garner and Toby Batchelor competed for Newport in the Men’s Novice sculls.
Toby came up against the finalist from 2022, Ben Sanderson from Ryde, in the first round and lost by a canvas. Connor lost to the eventual winner Joe Hoyland from Poole in the semi-final.
Newport’s J16 quad of William Loveday-Powell, Boris Hare, Hayden Tiffin and Atur Rozvodovski were second in their final.
News shared by Julie on behalf of Newport Rowing Club. Ed
Image: Women’s Masters winners from left to right Julie Clarke, Fran Ladd, Nick Salter (cox), Julia Coulson, Julia Wilks
