Westport Scores and Standings: Aug 4

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The 2011 World Rowing Junior Championships got started Wednesday afternoon in Great Britain on Dorney Lake with heats in the men’s four and women’s quadruple sculls. The United States has a full squad of 13 boats racing in Eton.

In the women’s quadruple sculls, the crew of Nancy Miles (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Lizzy Youngling (Westport), Erin Reelick (Brookfield) and MacKenzi Sherman (Los Alamitos, Calif.) finished fourth in its heat with a time of 6:56.27 and will now race in a repechage, or second-chance race, on Thursday afternoon.

The crew grabbed third off the line and held that position through the 1,500-meter mark before dropping to fourth. Germany won the heat in a 6:48.18, followed by Belarus.Spain.

A total of eight area athletes are competing abroad.

The women’s four of Chandler Lally (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), Lucy Grinalds (Southpor), Mia Croonquist (Vashon, Wash.) and Jessica Eiffert (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.) is looking to improve on the United States’ silver-medal performance at the 2010 World Rowing Junior Championships. Lally, Grinalds and Eiffert return from that crew and have nine junior national team appearances between them.

Rosie Grinalds (Southport), who won a silver medal in the women’s eight at last year’s championships, and newcomer Corinne Bozzini (Lafayette, Calif.) will race in the women’s pair. The duo drew Romania, Italy and France in its heat and will need a win in order to earn an automatic berth in the final and avoid the repechage.

Nineteen crews are scheduled to race in the women’s double sculls. The American duo of Hannah Solis-Cohen (New York, N.Y.) and Maria Maydan (Ridgefield) will race Sweden, Lithuania and Belarus in its heat, with the top two earning spots in the semifinals.

With 24 entries, the men’s double sculls event is the second-most subscribed at the regatta. Both Graham Anderson (Weston) and Charles Campbell (New Canaan) raced at the 2010 World Rowing Junior Championships in the quadruple sculls and four, respectively. The duo will take on Croatia, Norway, Lithuania, Zimbabwe and France in the second of four heats. The winner will advance directly to the semifinals, while the remaining crews will head to the repechages.

The U.S. is the defending champion in the men’s eight but returns only one member of that boat in five-seat Zach Hershberger (Los Gatos, Calif.). He is joined by coxswain Max Blumenthal (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Alex Perkins (Westport), Max Meyer-Bosse (Westport), Patrick Eble (Fort Washington, Pa.), Harry Holroyd (Piedmont, Calif.), Stephen Podwojski (Cincinnati, Ohio), Greg Schneiter (Latham, N.Y.) and Hunter Leeming (Sarasota, Fla.).  The men’s eight drew the Czech Republic, Great Britain and Spain in its heat, with the winner earning a spot in the final.

Former New York Mets star Howard Johnson will conduct an autograph session on Sunday at Legends of the Game in Westport at the Westfair Shopping Center at 1765 Post Road East

Former Mets pitcher Doc Gooden will be on hand for a similiar session on Aug. 28.

A Full line of Derek Jeter 3,000 hit memorabilia will be available. For more info, visit www.legendswestport.com

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