The Lead: The MIT sailing team had an excellent weekend on the water as the Engineers captured the NEISA Women's Championship and posted top-five finishes in the team's other three regattas as the team wrapped up regular season competition.  

NEISA WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP | Providence, RI | 1st of 16
 
- The Engineers built a strong lead after day one and were able to hold off a second-day push from Harvard and capture the championship to earn the automatic bid to the ICSA Women's National Championship.
 
- MIT's 'A' division boat was led by graduate student Dana Haig (Beach Haven, N.J.) and senior Grace Mao (Overland Park, Kan.) and totaled 89 points for a fifth-place finish.
 
- Sophomore Lucy Brock (Austin, Texas), sophomore Brooke Schmelz (Monmouth Beach, N.J.), and junior Jemma Schroder (Menlo Park, Calif.) led the 'B' Division boat to a first-place finish with 67 points. Brock was the skipper on Saturday and Schmelz was the Sunday skipper. 
 
- Overall, the Engineers tallied 12 top-three finishes with six victories.

85TH BOSTON DINGHY CLUB CHALLENGE CUP | Cambridge, Mass. | 3rd of 19
 
- The Engineers tied for second with Harvard with both teams totaling 307 points. The Crimson were given second place on the head-to-head tiebreaker.
 
- Junior Sam Bruce (Severna Park, Md.), graduate student Maaya Prasad (Yorktown, Va.), and sophomore Nicholas Abate (Kemah, Texas) steered the 'A' Division boat to a second-place finish with 78 points. In the 'B' Division sophomore Julius Heitkoetter (Austin, Texas) and senior Abby VanLonkhuyzen (Yarmouth, Maine) totaled 158 points to finish 14th, and junior Maks Groom (Seattle, Wash.), and senior Wendy Wu (Andover, Mass.) led the 'C' Division boat to a victory with 71 points.
 
- The Engineers posted ten top-three finishes.
 
INTERCOLLEGIATE TECH DINGHY CHAMPIONSHIP | Cambridge, Mass. | Individual Results
 
- First year Alex Horne (Broomfield, Colo.) finished second with 54 points with seven top-five finishes that included a third-place finish in the second-to-last race to help close the gap between him and eventual winner Aidan Cunningham of Boston College.
 
- First year Lucas Escandon (Brick, N.J.) earned a 16th-place finish with 153 points.
 
MORRIS TROPHY | Boston, Mass. | 5th of 16
 
- MIT totaled 139 points for the fifth-place finish, just three behind Salve Regina for fourth place.
 
- The 'A' Division team of junior Matthew Elliott (Waterford, Mich.) and junior Karen Liberman (Sao Paulo, Brazil) finished in third with 57 points, and the 'B' Division team of sophomore Max Katz-Christy (Cambridge, Mass.), and senior Soleh Anderlini (Washington, D.C.) finished sixth with 82 points.
 
- MIT won four races during the regatta.
 
UP NEXT:

- The Engineers have a big championship weekend upcoming with the Women's Team Race National Championships in Palo Alto, Calif. and the Open New England Fleet Race Championships in New London, Conn.

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