THE Launceston Church Grammar School girls' rowers put in some standout performances on the first day's racing at the Tasmanian Schools rowing regatta at Lake Barrington yesterday.
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In perfect weather and rowing conditions and in front of one of the biggest crowds of the seasons, about 145 races were contested on a big program of racing.
``It was primarily heats and semis today hence the large number of events and we had in excess of 900 entries,'' Rowing Tasmania development manager Rob Prescott said.
``One of the most interesting performances was the Grammar girls who have crews in the finals of the eights, the fours, the quads, the pairs, doubles and singles - the girls in their senior eight have pretty much got into everything in pretty much one of the stellar performances of the day.
``We had a lot of junior athletes with at one stage nearly 70 athletes competing at one stage in the girls' under-16 singles, and it's been staggering the numbers we've had.
``It's been a successful day's racing and finals start tomorrow morning with semi-finals at 7.30am and finals at 8.30am.''