The Black and White lightweights grabbed their first gold at Eastern Sprints since 2007 while the heavyweights took first in a pair of events at the Ivy League Championships. But the season goes on for both squads.

In Sunday’s first-ever Ivy League Championship, the Radcliffe heavyweight varsity eight kicked off a new Ancient Eight tradition in style.

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The No. 4 lightweight first varsity eight finished third behind varsity eight winner Wisconsin and runner-up Stanford in Saturday's regatta. In Connecticut, Yale outdueled the Radcliffe heavyweights on the Housatonic.

For the day, the Black and White (7-3) completed a sweep against the weekend challengers with wins in all five of its race on the Charles River.

With the heavyweights visiting Princeton for an Ivy-filled regatta on Lake Carnegie and the lightweights defending home water on the Charles, both Black and White crews faced a series of familiar foes this past weekend.

If rowing on the Charles River in 20-degree weather on the morning of The Game is not difficult enough, add in a shifting race course and a near-crash at the Eliot turn, and you will have just experienced Andrew Hamm’s first race as a novice.

The No. 13 Radcliffe heavyweight crew’s racing results on Saturday proved to be as mixed as the day’s weather. Though the Black and White 1V was unable to take down the defending national champions No. 7 Brown, the Radcliffe heavyweight crew took three of four races for the day.

Braving blustery and choppy conditions on the Charles River on Saturday morning, the No. 12 Radcliffe heavyweight crew out-rowed Boston-area rivals to take first place at the sixth annual Beanpot in the first race of the spring season.