It was a clean sweep of wins for ERBC at the Ulster Schools Cup which took place from the Boathouse yesterday afternoon in glorious sunshine. First up was the BJ14 Octo of Cillian Donaghy, Bruno Maguire Favro, Joshua Ihnat, Harley Sheppard, Jacob Woods, Cameron Bell, Oliver McNeary, Oliver Jennings and Cox Grace Collins who had a great win over the crew from Methody. This was the first time that this event was part of the Schools Cup Regatta so it was great to win it. The BJ18 4+ crew of Marcus Davis Kunze, Nathan Kelly, Oran Harty, Callum Timoney and cox Katelyn Fee won the Wray Cup with a win over the boys from Coleraine Grammar School. The GJ16 8+ won the Iain Kennedy Cup over the crews from Methody and Coleraine Grammar. The crew included Kate Huddlestone, Rhea Cartin McCloskey, Zara Welsh, Mya Morris, Eva Johnston, Ruby Hamill, Erin Trimble, Errie Powell and cox Abbey Wilson.
The BJ16 8+ crew Austin Cassidy, Luke Bailey, Owen Kelly, Joe Murphy, George Kernaghan, Hugo McChesney, Harry Coalter, Jake Sembhi and Cox Jessica Thompson had a very convincing win over the other 2 crews accepting the Craig Cup from Robert Northridge who was in the crew who won the very first Craig Cup back in 1959.
Many thanks to Mr Holland and all the coaching team at ERBC along with the Club’s parents for holding a very successful event.
The junior rowers will travel to Cork next weekend to take part in the 1k Classic at the National Rowing Centre and we wish them all the best of luck.
