July 5, 2001 AP

HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England (AP) American crews had mixed results Thursday at Henley Royal Regatta.

Both Harvard and Yale lost in the first round of the Silver Goblets and Nickalls' Challenge Cup for international coxless pairs.

Harvard's Graham O'Donaghue and Alex Chastain-Chapman were completely overpowered by world lightweight silver medallists, Peter Haining of Scotland and English partner Nick Strange.

Yale's Andrew Persson and Josh Lerner were beaten by South Africa's Trident crew by 1½ lengths.

Harvard did score a win in the Temple Cup for student eights. Its "A" crew had a 1¾-length victory over Oxford's Isis.

Harvard's "B" crew later won the all-American battle in its second round race, beating the Dartmouth "B" crew by two-thirds of a length.

Dartmouth's "A" crew also lost, by a length to England's Oxford-Brookes "A."

The Visitors' Cup for student coxless fours got underway Thursday with two American defeats. Yale lost to an English composite Oxford-Brookes and its alumni club Taurus by a length, while Syracuse lost by four lengths to Oxford.

In the Thames Cup for club eights, the Cincinnati Junior club defeated England's Agecroft by 1½ lengths to cruise into the quarterfinals.

In the new event for men's quadruple sculls, Potomac from Washington beat Bosporus from England by 2¾ lengths, but its single sculler Kristin Goodritch did even better. Goodritch won her opening race in the Princess Royal Cup for women scullers by five lengths, beating Elizabeth Butler-Stoney from local club Wallingford.

In the second round of the Princess Elizabeth Cup for schoolboy eights, Redwood High School from Marin County, Calif., beat a local crew from Shiplake College by a length.

St. Mark's School from Southborough, Mass., could not deal with the power of the King's School, Parramatta, Australia, going down by three-quarters of a length.

The crew from St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., also found its opponents tough and lost its battle to England's Hampton School by a half-length. Fortunes were better for Kent School from Connecticut, which beat local school St. Edward's by 3¾ lengths.

The Britannia Cup for coxed fours has also reached the second-round stage, with the Yale crew losing by 1¼ lengths to England's Nottinghamshire County.

Saugatuck, from Greenwich, Conn., moved to the quarterfinals with a 1½- length lead over English club Norwich. But Dartmouth lost to its English opponent, Imperial College by 2¾ lengths.

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