Bermuda Duo Help Eckerd To 11th Place
Bermudian sailors Jordan Vieira and PJ Rodrigues represented Eckerd College as the team finished 11th at the Open Atlantic Coast Championships Round 1A, hosted by St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Eckerd recorded 259 points in the 17-team regatta, earning a place in the Atlantic Coast Tournament at Connecticut College.
Vieira skippered Eckerd’s A Division entry, sailing with crew Avery Guck for the opening 10 races before William Alvarado took over for the final four. The entry finished 12th in the division with 144 points.
Rodrigues sailed with crew Peyton Seidle in B Division, where they placed 10th with 115 points.
Fourteen races were completed in each division, with rain and gusty easterly winds accompanying the final four races, which concluded by noon on the second day.
Stanford won the regatta with 108 points. The US Coast Guard Academy secured the ninth and final qualifying place for the Atlantic Coast Championship Finals with 215 points after recording top-three finishes in seven of its final eight races across the two divisions.
