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Trinity claims head of the river at Champion’s Lake
28th March 2009, 13:45 WST
Trinity College has claimed school boy rowing’s biggest prize – the annual head of the river regatta at Champion’s Lake in Armadale.
Today’s first staging of the event at the new venue, was a thriller with Trinity showing their superiority to win in a record time of five minutes 50seconds surpassing the previous best of 5:57sec at the former Canning Bridge course.
Trinity, Scotch College and Christ Church Grammar School went through the first 500m together with Scotch and Trinity eventually switching their leads all the way through to the 1000m mark.
Trinity maintained the pressure to win by a boat length with Scotch finishing second followed by Christ Church, Hale, Guildford, Wesley and Aquinas.
It was Trinity’s third win since 2004 with Christ Church winning the other three regattas during the period.
The Hamer Cup, for the best performed school, was won by Scotch with 264 points followed by Trinity (259), Christ Church (225), Aquinas (207), Guildford (205) and Hale and Wesley on 189.
PERTH
GENE STEPHAN
I suddenly feel pretty old, it will now definately be twenty years since our last win when my Yr11 Scotch 1st VIII have our twenty year reunion next March
Congratulations to Trinity and commiserations to the Scotchie boys, you learn over time there really is no second place at the Head of the River