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With little time left in the regular season, the Harvard and Radcliffe heavyweight and lightweight teams looked to leave its mark in the water.

Men’s Heavyweights

With the team hungry to avenge its close loss to Princeton last week and position itself well against its rivals in the upcoming tournament play, the No. 5 men’s heavyweight team’s path back to success ran through stiff competition in No. 12 Navy and No. 13 Penn.

In the varsity 8 race, the Crimson’s quick and clean start allowed the boat to a four-seat lead over the nearest boat, Navy. Towards the middle of the race, Harvard made moves to further increase its lead to seven seats, but, as the crew found last weekend, there is always plenty of time for a last minute push from a team to overtake it. Penn did just that in the last 500m of the course, making a move to reduce its Ivy rival’s lead; but the Crimson boat responded by quickening its stroke to hold onto its lead and finish at 4:54.5, half a second ahead of Penn. The Midshipmen finished open water behind at 6:01.4

With this win, the team takes home Adams Cup for the 18th consecutive year, and the 53rd out of 80 years.

The 2V and 3V races also saw Harvard win again, this time by a wider margin. In the 4V and 5V races, BU, which joined for those races, edged out the Crimson.

With these wins, the Crimson amassed enough points to also win the Clothier trophy.

Men’s Lightweights

The No. 5 lightweights also faced off against Navy, but also competed with Delaware on the Severn River.

Unlike its heavyweight counterpart, though, the lightweight team could not overcome a strong No. 6 Navy team, which took home the Haines Cup for the first time since 2008.

Facing a strong tailwind throughout the course, the Crimson and Midshipmen V8 boats were in close competition right until the end of the race, where Navy managed to pull ahead and finish at 5:47.4. The Crimson stopped the clock less than a second later at 5:48.5. The Blue Hens came in third at 5:54.5.

The 2V race was a close call as well, this time with Harvard edging out Navy in its only win of the day. Navy took the 3V, 4V, and 5V races.

Women’s Heavyweights