Liz Baylis

ISAF has released the new Women’s World Match Racing Rankings and the San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team remains the top U.S. team and holds on to the #4 spot in the World!

Claire Leroy (FRA) has a stranglehold on the #1 spot, but with two more events on our schedule for 2008 and the #2 spot less than 400 points above us, we still have the opportunity to finish the year at our highest ever ranking - #2!

To view the complete list:  http://tinyurl.com/2r8oft

Our next two events:

October 30 - November 2 : Busan Women’s Cup - Busan, South Korea
December 5-7 : Carlos Aguilar Memorial Match Race - St. Thomas, USVI

In addition to racing in the event in Korea, Molly Carapiet and I will be teaching a WIMRA clinic in Busan the week before the regatta.

Thank you for your continued support and encouragement!

Cheers,

The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team

(Liz, Karina, Suzy, Molly, Lee, Pease, Cory, Carol, Abby, Emily, Jenna, Sue, Shala, Dana, Alice, Hannah, and Taylor)

The quarter-finals went according to the seeding with Tulloch, SFWMRT, Tunnicliffe-Funk, and Fisher winning their pairs.  This left Tulloch to choose her Semi-final opponent and she chose JoAnn Fisher which left the SFWMRT against Tunnicliffe-Funk in the other semi-final pair.  Anna won the first match, we won the second match in a very spirited match that had a lot of exciting match racing elements (many flags, luffing, carrying past laylines, etc.).  So, it came down to the 3^rd race to decide who would go on to the finals and Anna’s team got ahead and stayed there to advance.  We faced JoAnn Fisher in the Petit-Finals which we won 2-0.  Anna went on to win the Finals 2-0 over Genny Tulloch to take the Championship.  Congratulations to Anna and her team – they sailed fast and had a great regatta.

We feel that we sailed a very good regatta and are happy with our performance.  Sure, we wish we had won, but we feel we sailed well and our match racing was improved over our recent events which made us happy.

The regatta websites have updates: http://www.rochesteryc.com/ or http://www.ussailing.org/championships/adult/women/uswmrc/

We have a few more events on our schedule this year including new events in Pusan, Korea and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

Please visit our website: www.lizbaylis.com to see what else we’re up to next!

Thanks again for your continued support of our team!

Cheers,

Liz, Carol, Cory, Suzy, and Abby

The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team

After a delay on shore waiting for the wind to arrive and for the fog to clear, we sailed the second round robin of Stage 2.  We won three matches (Tunnicliffe-Funk, Tulloch, and Capozzi) and lost two (Fisher and Lovell).  So, we ended Stage 2 in second.  Now, on to the quarter-finals.  The pairing for the quarter-finals are:

1 Tulloch v. 8 Carapiet

2 SFWMRT v. 7 Hjorth

3 Tunnicliffe-Funk v. 6 Lovell

4 Fisher v. 5 Capozzi

The weather forecast for tomorrow is for a bit more breeze than today, so we should have some good racing for the last few rounds.

The regatta websites have updates: http://www.rochesteryc.com/ or http://www.ussailing.org/championships/adult/women/uswmrc/

More news tomorrow, but for now we are off to bed!

In the meantime, please visit our website: www.lizbaylis.com to see what else we’re up to.

Thanks again for your continued support of our team!

Cheers,

Liz, Carol, Cory, Suzy, and Abby

The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team

Hi,

We had another good long day on the water today.  A bit of rain punctuated the day, but didn’t dampen the racing!  We finished the remaining three flights of the initial round robin, then broke into Gold and Silver fleets for the second stage (essentially a seeding stage for the quarter-finals for the six teams in the Gold fleet and a second chance for 2 teams in the Silver fleet.)  We finished the first stage in second behind Tunnicliffe-Funk (11-0) with a score of 9 wins and 2 losses.  After the first RR of the 2^nd stage we are again in 2^nd with a score of 3 wins and 2 losses, but behind Genny Tulloch (4-1).

Results from the first stage (round robin among all competitors):

http://www.ussailing.org/championships/adult/women/uswmrc/2008/USWMRC%20Stage1%20Final.pdf

Results from the first round robin of the 2^nd Stage:

http://www.ussailing.org/championships/adult/women/uswmrc/2008/USWMRC_Stage2.pdf

The regatta websites have updates: http://www.rochesteryc.com/ or http://www.ussailing.org/championships/adult/women/uswmrc/

More news tomorrow, but for now we are off to bed!

In the meantime, please visit our website: www.lizbaylis.com to see what else we’re up to.

Thanks again for your continued support of our team!

Cheers,

Liz, Carol, Cory, Suzy, and Abby

The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team

We are in Rochester, NY competing in the U.S. Women’s Match Racing Championship.  Our crew for this event is Liz Baylis, Cory Sertl, Carol Cronin, and Suzy Leech with Abby Ruhlman filling in today.

 There are 12 teams competing:

Liz Baylis

Andrea Cabito

Deb Capozzi

Molly Carapiet

Killian Corbishly

JoAnn Fisher

Annie Gardner-Nelson

Liz Hjorth

Katy Lovell

Maegan Ruhlman

Genny Tulloch

Anna Tunnicliffe-Funk

 We had a long day on the water sailing eight flights of the scheduled 11 flights of the first round robin.  The regatta organizers have an ambitious schedule which will have us on the water sailing A LOT over the four days of the event.  We had a good day, winning all of our matches except for our first one against Anna Tunnicliffe-Funk.  Anna won all of her matches and is currently leading with 7 wins and no losses.  We have 7 wins and one loss.

 The results from today are posted: http://www.rochesteryc.com/files/U.S.%20Womens%20Match%20Racing%20Championship%20Stage%201%20Results.pdf

 The regatta websites have updates: http://www.rochesteryc.com/ or http://www.ussailing.org/championships/adult/women/uswmrc/

 More news tomorrow, but for now we are off to bed!

 In the meantime, please visit our website: www.lizbaylis.com to see what else we’re up to.

 A special thanks to Abby for helping us out in a bind!

 Thanks again for your continued support of our team!

 Cheers,

Liz, Carol, Cory, Suzy, and Abby

The San Francisco Women’s Match Racing Team