The Lead: The MIT sailing team earned a fifth-place finish at NEISA Women's Team Race Championship and an 11th-place finish at the Oberg Fleet Race over the weekend.

OBERG FLEET RACE | Cambridge, Mass. | 11th of 15 (346 Points)
 
- The Engineers totaled 346 points as a team with the A Division earning 96 points, the B Division recording 92 points, and the C Division scoring 158 points.
 
- The A Division boat finished eighth of 15 teams and was steered by juniors Matthew Elliott (Waterford, Mich) and Jemma Schroder (Menlo Park, Calif.). Sophomore Max Katz-Christy (Cambridge, Mass.) and senior Soleh Anderlini (Washington, D.C.) steered the B Division boat to a sixth-place finish, and first year Alex Horne (Broomfield, Colo.), and senior Sarah Aaronson (Ashland, Ore.) posted a 12th-place finish in the C Division race.

WOMEN'S NEW ENGLAND TEAM RACE CHAMPIONSHIPS | Cambridge, Mass. | 5th of 10
 
- MIT finished fifth with a record of 8-6. MIT opened the weekend with an 8-1 record in round one on Saturday, falling only to eventual champion Yale.
 
- The skippers for the Engineers over the weekend were: graduate student Dana Haig (Beach Haven, N.J.), sophomore Lucy Brock (Austin, Texas), senior Emily Scherer (Oshkosh, Wis.), and sophomore Brooke Schmelz (Monmouth Beach, N.J.) with sophomore Shayne Bersin (Port Washington, N.Y.), senior Grace Mao (Overland Park, Kan.), and sophomore Samantha Karlson (Groton, Conn.) on the crew.
 
UP NEXT:

- MIT returns to the water next weekend, April 22-23 with the Women's New England Fleet Race Championships, the Boston Dinghy Cup and the Morris Fleet Race.

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