REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – The No. 17 Oregon State men's rowing team put together a solid day of racing against tough competition Sunday to close out the Pac-12 Challenge.
The Beavers’ Varsity 8 raced against a quad crew from the California Rowing Club, which is training for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Oregon State shot off the line and held with the CRC crew through 1,000 meters but couldn’t sustain the pace. OSU’s crew of Spencer Smith, Martin Forde, Tyler MacDonald, Collin Griffitts, Jesse Maritz, Kyle Wilkins, Baxter Call and Grant Van Kampen with Ben Augeri as the coxswain, finished with a time of 6:06.