WORCESTER, Mass. -- Both the Yale heavyweight men’s crew and the  lightweight Yale men’s crew captured Ivy League Championships after capturing gold at the Eastern Sprints on Sunday.
 
The Bulldog varsity captured gold in the first, second and third-varsity grand finals to earn the Rowe Cup for the fourth-straight time, while the lightweight crew earned the Wright Cup and Jope Cup.
 
 The varsity EARC victory was the sixth straight for the Elis, who were rowing out of lane one on Lake Quinsigamond without their injured Olympic gold medalist stroke Dan Williamson. Nearing the middle of the 2,000-meter race, the Bulldogs made a push to  establish a lead through the end of the race. Yale utilized  Olympians Andrin Gulich and captain Jack Lopas in the stroke and bow, respectively, crossed the finish line at 5:58.01 followed by Brown (5:59.38), Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard and Syracuse.
 
After the lightweight crew won the preliminary heat, Yale was seeded first against Navy, Cornell, Georgetown, Columbia and Princeton. Off the start, all six crews remained tightly packed, with Yale just barely edging their bow ball out in front to lead the field. After battling all the way down the 2000m stretch, it was Yale who came in first with a time of 5:58.641, winning not only the Wright Cup and becoming Ivy League Champions but adding just enough points to the team total to defend their 2019 Jope Cup title. It was Yale's first Wright Cup victory and Ivy League Championship since 2016, as well as their fifth Jope Cup title in 10 years.