St Catharine's College Boat Club

As is so often the way in the lower bumps divisions, we weren't able to carry out our plan today. No matter how good your start or how composed your stride, there is nothing you can do about the girl in the boat two ahead who forgets to do up her gate. I could only look on as the Murray Edwards W2 blade flapped around like a flag of surrender, and Sidney Sussex W2 landed on them. Briony did well to find her way past the Murray Edwards crew who seemed to have as little conviction about which side of the river to clear to as they did about doing their gates up.

In the end it was a solid rowover - the overbump on Queen's W2 was more wishful thinking than anything. Tomorrow we will certainly be looking to claim a second Murray Edwards scalp of the week, but will need to be wary of a fast Darwin crew coming from behind.