The regattas that come later in the annual Manny Flick crew series split the schedule between boys' and girls' events. Two weeks ago, all the girls' races were held first, and the boys followed. The schedule flipped last Sunday, but after the boys' races were completed in the early afternoon, regatta officials decided conditions were too windy to continue with the competition.

An hour-long break had been built into the schedule between the boys' and girls' contests, and during that time administrators said they'd had enough of struggling to get boats lined up at the starting line and then seeing them get blown out of their racing lanes downstream by strong wind gusts.

This left all-girls Mount St. Joseph Academy sidelined entirely, but the boys from Germantown Academy, Germantown Friends, Penn Charter, and Springside Chestnut Hill were able to race.

SCH got some good news early on when its freshman/novice double placed second in the first flight in that category. A bit later, Germantown Friends' freshman quad won its race while also putting up the best time of all three flights. The Tigers' novice quad placed third shortly after that.

GFS kept piling up good results as Chenyue Peng won his race in the JV single and emerged as the second-fastest competitor out of all three flights.

A good early outcome for Penn Charter came in the JV double, where the Quakers were runners-up in what was clearly the fastest of three flights in that class. In the opening flight in the boys' JV quad, Germantown Academy came in second, just a fraction of a second behind the winners.

The varsity quad event came near the end of the boys' program. The second flight was the second-fastest of the three, and here Penn Charter's quartet placed second while SCH was third. GFS actually had a slightly better time than these two, even though the Tigers placed fourth in the strong first flight.