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Posted: Monday 08 June 2009, 12:54PM by Lisa Meegan
Congratulations to M4 who produced an excellent row on Friday to secure one of four available places on the Bumps chart from a strong field of twelve boats! As a result, Sidney will be fielding 7 crews in this year's May Bumps - the most we have had on the charts since 1992!
After a strong year, this year's May Bumps look very promising for SSBC, with all crews looking to do well.
The times of our races during the week are as follows (with races two hours earlier on Saturday):
12:55 - Fourth Men
13:00 - Third Ladies
13:45 - Second and Third Men
14:30 - Second Ladies
17:30 - First Ladies
18:15 - First Men
The Second Men look like they may be able to move up a division, in which case they will be racing at 15:15 (or 13:15 on Saturday). Similarly, W3 may well find themselves moving up by the end of the week, to race at the same time as the Second Ladies.
SSBC would be delighted to see as much support as possible on the river during Bumps. Good luck to everyone involved!
Posted: Wednesday 10 June 2009, 3:08PM by Jeremy Coulon
Technical row over
After an exceptional performance in the Getting on Race, M4 were looking forward to what would be their first Bumps race for many of them.
Due to the inconvenience of exams, and a minor injury from a triathlon, our last outing had had a couple of subs, and so with the return of all eight of us we were a little shaky to start off with, but a couple of practice starts later we were significantly better.
This showed in our impressive start, in which we managed to hold station with Hughes Hall M2. With the return of five university rowers to their M1 (and therefore five of their M1 rowers from last term presumably being demoted to M2), it was obvious they were going to be very good, and they slowly started to gain on us, while we gained on the Christ's boat in front of us.
However, before long Christ's V had caught FAT VI, and didn't clear in time for us to get past, so we had to hold it up and had to make do with a technical row-over instead of the overbump.
On the way home we then endured possibly the most torrential rain I've ever experienced, but despite being cold and very wet we were confident tomorrow will bring success!
Many thanks to our bank-party, especially our coach Jason!
Posted: Wednesday 10 June 2009, 11:12PM by Lisa Meegan
A strong start to Sidney's bumps campaign saw the Club up 3 overall after the first day, with four quick bumps (three of which came before the motorway bridge). Well done to W3, M3, W2 and W1, and good luck to everyone for tomorrow. Full results for today were:
M1 - Bumped by Queens II
M2 - Rowed over at the head of Division 5, rowed over as sandwich boat
M3 - Bumped Fitzwilliam III
M4 - Rowed over (technical)
W1 - Bumped Murray Edwards
W2 - Bumped Newnham IV
W3 - Bumped Downing III
Race reports from the crews can be expected here over the coming days, and division times can be found further down the page.
Posted: Thursday 11 June 2009, 4:13PM by Jeremy Coulon
With lots of blue sky, and some glorious sunshine, we paddled confidently down to the lock in our quest to get our first bump of the week.
The starting gun went off, and away we went. Hughes Hall again pushed hard, but after our start we were half a length off FAT VI, and were quickly closing down the remaining gap. Whistles were going off all around us, and before long Dave got us to hold it up - M4's first bump! Having started just under the motorway bridge, FAT had barely got half-way to First Post Corner before we'd caught them..
Congratulations to Hughes Hall for then pushing on and getting a double overbump on Anglia Ruskin III - well done!
Posted: Thursday 11 June 2009, 7:16PM by Lisa Meegan
The second day of Bumps brought mixed fortunes for Sidney - success for M4 and W3 was followed by frustration for M3, W2 and W1, each denied a bump and forced to settle for the row over when the pair ahead bumped out quickly. On the plus side, these crews will all be hoping for a quick bump tomorrow. Congratulations to W3, whose overbump saw them securing a place in the fourth division, and good luck to all of the crews for tomorrow!
Full results for today were:
M1 - Rowed over
M2 - Rowed over, Rowed over
M3 - Rowed over
M4 - Bumped First and Third VI
W1 - Rowed over
W2 - Rowed over
W3 - Bumped Girton III, Overbumped King's II
W3 will now be rowing at the later time of 2:30pm, with W2. Full division times for the third day of racing are:
12:55 - Fourth Men
13:45 - Second and Third Men
14:30 - Second and Third Ladies
17:30 - First Ladies
18:15 - First Men
If the Second Men row over in their first race, they will also be rowing at 3:15pm.
Posted: Friday 12 June 2009, 11:03PM by Lisa Meegan
A sunnier third day brought further gains for Sidney, with a total of six bumps over the course of the day's racing. Sadly M2 were bumped by a strong Anglia Ruskin crew, but they will be looking to make amends tomorrow when they are handed an opportunity to chase down the Christ's crew that just evaded them on Wednesday - this time without having to row over the whole course first! With many of the other crews well placed for the bump, tomorrow should be another succesful day for Sidney.
Full results for today were:
M1 - Bumped Corpus Christi
M2 - Bumped by Anglia Ruskin II
M3 - Bumped Pembroke IV
M4 - Bumped Girton III
W1 - Bumped Fitzwilliam
W2 - Bumped Addenbrooke's
W3 - Bumped Newnham IV
Good luck to everyone for the final day of racing tomorrow! Division times can be found below, and it would be great to see as much support as possible on the towpath!
Posted: Monday 15 June 2009, 12:49PM by Lisa Meegan
A glorious final day brought huge crowds to the river, and further gains for Sidney. M2 were able to regain their position at the head of division 5 with a bump on the Christ's boat that had twice evaded them earlier in the week, W2 picked up another quick bump, and W3 could not believe their luck when a crash ahead of them brought a double overbump on Queens' III.
This put the girls up 11 for the week, and saw them win their oars in style with the biggest ever single gain by a Sidney crew since the separation of the Lent and May Bumps in 1887 (the previous record of 8 being held jointly by the 2nd Men from 1948 and the 3rd Men from 1993).
Full results for the day were:
M1 - Rowed Over
M2 - Bumped Christ's III, Rowed Over
M3 - Rowed Over
M4 - Rowed Over
W1 - Rowed Over
W2 - Bumped Robinson II
W3 - Double Overbumped Queens' III
The final results for the May Bumps 2009 can be found here. For the first Bumps since the Lents in 2002, no Sidney crew has gone down, and the Club has made a net gain of 20 places. This saw us accummulating more Mitchell Cup points than any other eligible college, finishing 5th for the year overall.
Furthermore, Sidney finished 3rd in the Pegasus Cup (awarded for the best performance in the May Bumps), beaten only by the two men's boats of Hughes Hall and the two boats of Clare Hall.
Congratulations to everyone for an excellent end to a superb year for SSBC.