Worcester, MA --- WPI's Men's Varsity Eight won the Baker Cup and the first-ever Class of 2009 on Sunday morning on Worcester's Lake Quinsigamond.

Connor McGrath (Troy, NY), Scott Gary (Lubbock, TX), Hank Moore (Jaffrey, NH), Ben Johnson (Northford, CT), Arthur Gager (Kennebunk, ME), Sebastien Cohn (Orinda, CA), Tobin McGee (Rye, NY), Andrew Sandefer (New Orleans, LA) and coxswain Bethany Bouchard (Nashua, NH) defeated RIT by six seconds (5:50.9) for rights to the 2009 Cup while overtaking Tufts by 20 seconds to also take home the Baker Cup.

The Second Eight (Jeff Onderdonk (Colechester, CT), Nick Vitello (Tolland, CT), Don Havener (Turner, ME), Ricky Holak (Windham, NH), John Madura (Hewitt, NJ), Zack Theoharidis (Sedgwick, ME), Mike Mourkas (Hampden, ME), Max French (Harwinton, CT) and cox Brenna Colleary (Southboro, MA)) also rowed in the varsity race, placing third with a time of 6:08.65.

The Novice Four combination of Chris Carrigan (Northboro, MA), Max Benko (Holmes, NY), Corey Rutledge (Saugus, MA), Justin Bales (Upland, CA) and Lauren Moloney (Buffalo, NY) put together another strong race to post a victory of their own with a 7:06.62 finish.

Rounding out the day for the Crimson and Gray was the Varsity Four squad comprised of Jack Sternal (Westfield, NJ), Frank Pallien (Oakland, NJ), Doug Griesbach (Pocono Pines, PA), Rafeal Gil-Figueroa (Vienna, VA) and cox Nina Bass (Trumbull, CT) who with their 7:46.27 mark finished in fourth.

Men's Crew is back on the water on Saturday when they face off against Massachusetts and Boston College beginning at 8am on Lake Quinsigamond.

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