With first- and third-place finishes in two of the three events, the Hoyas looked poised to capture the Nevins Trophy.

A 14th-place finish, however, forced Georgetown to settle for third overall at Kings Point, N.Y., home of the U.S. Merchant arine Academy.

“We could have easily won the regatta had we sailed better in the A division,” Georgetown Head Coach Mike Callahan said.

Senior Andrew Campbell led the Hoyas with a 30-point performance in lasers, the C division. Save for one sixth-place finish, Campbell never ended a race out of the top three. He won seven of 14 races outright, including four straight.

“He totally destroyed everybody,” Callahan said.

Georgetown also fared well in the B division as sophomore skipper Chris Behm and junior crew Nick Deane took third with 80 points, five out of first place. Callahan said that they did a “fantastic job” at a “really challenging” place to sail, winning two races and missing the top 10 in only two.

The Hoyas’ A-division sailors, however, ran into trouble. Georgetown finished 18th of 19 in the first race and 14th in the second, prompting the substitution of junior J.B. Turney for senior Ed DuMoulin at skipper. Turney had a rough time, too, though, as he was disqualified in the fourth race during a five-boat pileup.

DuMoulin and Turney raced seven times each over the course of the competition, with DuMoulin leading the boat to its highest finish, second, in the second-to-last race. Sophomore Leigh Fogwell stayed at crew in each race.

In the end, the Hoyas’ A-division team had 173 points, putting them in 14th place.

While the co-ed team was experiencing those highs and lows at the Nevins Trophy, the women opened their season at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl, where it was a battle of the all-Americans.

Six of the top seven boats in the A division were skippered by an all-American, and Georgetown sophomore Blaire Herron, an honorable mention selection last year, guided the Hoyas to sixth place in the division and fourth place overall.

Herron and junior crew Emily Siguler took first in the opening race of the regatta but dropped to 13th out of 16 in the second. Over the seven races, the two ended up with 49 points.

Normally, senior Derby Anderson – also an honorable mention all-American – would have started at skipper for the A division, but she took the weekend off from collegiate competition to prepare for this week’s Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship in Annapolis, Md. Despite her absence, Head Coach Mike Callahan said he could count on Herron and senior Jackie Schmitz, who was the skipper for the B division, to step up.

“We have three really good women’s sailors, so we try to rotate them,” Callahan said.

Schmitz and freshman crew Carly Chamberlain sailed to fourth place in the B division, totaling 51 points. The two started off slowly, with 14th- and 13th-place finishes in the first two races, but never fell out of the top 10 after that, picking up a second and third during the regatta.

Dartmouth, who played host to the Mrs. Hurst Bowl, took first overall as the Big Green finished on top in both divisions. Senior Emily East and junior Kate Hacker had an event-low 16 points in the A division while sophomores Adele Wilhelm and Betsy Bryant took 30 points in the B division for a total of 46. Yale finished in second with 68 overall points, followed by the College of Charleston with 84 and Georgetown with 100.

“We had our second and third skippers against everyone else’s top skippers, so that bodes well,” Callahan said.

Since there were no winds on Saturday, all seven races of the regatta took place on Sunday.

Georgetown also competed in the Freshman Groundbreaker, taking second place overall at the regatta held by SUNY-Maritime in Throggs Neck, N.Y. Skipper Emily Babbitt and crew Brooke Crawford finished just one point out of first place in the B division, settling for second, while skipper Nik Holtan and crew Sprague Brodie took fourth in the A division.

“I was happy in the B division that Emily and Brooke sailed well,” Callahan said. “Nik could have been a little bit better, but it wasn’t a discouraging result.”

The Hoyas will participate in three regattas again this weekend, though the women’s team will be off.

At the Senators Cup, to be held by St. Mary’s College of aryland, Callahan is looking forward to racing sophomore Zack Kavanaugh, one of his top recruits from last year, at skipper for the B division.

“We’re hoping he’ll be sailing A or B by next year,” Callahan said. Adding that this is Kavanaugh’s first event, Callahan continued, “Hopefully he’ll do well enough to earn himself some starting spots.”

Sophomore Liz Rapp will serve as crew for Kavanaugh. In the A division, senior Kyle Bergeron and junior Teresa Salerno will race.

At Fordham’s Jesuit Cup in New York, Callahan expects that Georgetown “should win easily.” Senior Berry Kurland and sophomore Jamie Loeks will start in the A division, while junior Seamus Kraft and sophomore Philippa Fraumeni will race in B.

Junior Langdon Mitchell will have another chance to qualify for the district singlehanded championships this weekend at the Laser Qualifiers South, held in Annapolis, Md. Callahan said he is hoping that Mitchell will qualify at this event, since most of the competitors who have finished above him have already qualified and will not be competing.

“All the people he’ll be sailing [against], he’s beaten,” Callahan said. “He should make it this time.”

Turney, who was the skipper for the A-division-winning team at last week’s Riley Cup, will also represent Georgetown at the Laser Qualifiers.

Looking at his team overall at this early point in the fall season, “I think we’re right on schedule with where we want to be,” Callahan said.