Evening Times Globe, August 22^nd, 1985

By: FRANCIS CAMPBELL

It may have been the rowing petit finals that were raced at the Renforth rowing and canoe club on the Kennebecasis River Wednesday, but the way some team supporters were yelling it could have been the medal races.

Saskatchewan won four of the petit final races, contested by boats that finished out of the medal races scheduled for today and Friday.

The Saskatchewan men's straight pair team were awarded a victory when the Manitoba squad scratched. The prairie province also won races in the men's cox four and cox eight and Neva Beckie finished first in her single sculls race.

Quebec, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Newfoundland all won two races on the day.

Quebec rowers finished first in the women's cox fours and eights while Nova Scotia won the women's quad race and the men's straight fours.

The women's pairs and the men's double sculls were won by Manitoba boats and Newfoundland took the women's single and double sculls races.

Twelve of the 13 New Brunswick boats racing this week had already qualified for the finals, so only the women's double sculls team of Jennifer Jardine and Tanya Wolstenholme competed Wednesday.

The duo lost to Newfoundland, but will have a chance to redeem themselves in the medal finals.

Wolstenholme will be racing in the single sculls and women's quads races while Jardine will compete for a medal with the quads team.

The rowing finals will start this evening at 6 o'clock with medals being determined in the women's single sculls, cox fours and cox eights as well as the men's pairs, double sculls and quads by the end of the night's racing.

The men's sculls, straight fours, cox fours, cox eights and the women's pairs, double sculls and quads will be run Friday evening.