July 6, 2001 AP

HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England (AP) Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth all won Friday in the Ladies Plate eights event at the Henley Royal Rowing Regatta.

Yale scored a two-length victory over Germany's Ruderklub am Wannsee. Princeton held off a late challenge by the London club Molesey. Dartmouth defeated the Hollandia Roeiclub of the Netherlands by two lengths.

The Double Sculls Cup staged its opening round on the third day of the regatta.

Both crews from Potomac in Washington won by 4¼ lengths. Todd Beyreuther and Sean Gorman beat a two-man team from England's Minerva-Bath club, and Doug Sanders and Brett Wilkinson downed their English opposition from the local club Marlow.

Harvard had mixed results in the quarterfinals of the Temple Cup for student eights. Its "A" crew won by 1¼ lengths over the National University of Galway, Ireland, but its "B" crew was beaten by two lengths by the "A" team from Oxford Brookes University in England.

Yale had an unexpectedly easy passage to the Temple Cup semifinals when its Dutch opponent was undone by an equipment failure after 20 strokes. Yale meets Harvard in the next round.

Yale also won the Henley Prize for women's eight. It beat London club Thames by one length.

In the Princess Royal Cup for women scullers, Kristin Goodritch of Potomac beat Bridget Snaith of the Queen's Tower club from London in the quarterfinals.

Goodritch's Potomac clubmates racing in the men's Quadruple Sculls beat England's Nottinghamshire County by a 1¼ lengths.

In the Princess Elizabeth Cup for schoolboy eights, Redwood High School from California lost its quarterfinal by three-quarters of a length against England's Hampton School. Connecticut's Kent School lost its quarterfinal by 1½ lengths to England's Abingdon School.

The Cincinnati Junior Club was defeated in its quarterfinal in the Thames Cup for club eights. It lost by six feet to Neptune from Dublin, Ireland.

The U.S. crew also had a loss in the Britannia Cup for coxed fours. Saugatuck from Greenwich, Conn., lost its quarterfinal against the Sydney club from Australia by a length.

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