Ballarat Clarendon College and St Patrick's College claimed the school honours at the Ballarat rowing regatta on Lake Wendouree on Saturday.
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In their first races of the year as preparation for next month's Ballarat head of the lake begins to hot up, they comfortably captured the school coxed four open division one events.
Ballarat Clarendon's Charlotte Sutherland, Ingrid Ellis, Ellie McClure, Ruby Lovel and cox Holli Williams finished 22.5 seconds ahead of another BCC crew, with Ballarat High School a distant third.
A St Pat's crew of Tom Foley, Jake Polkinghorne, Austin Reinehr, Angus Murnane and cox Edward Peucker were equally dominant.
They had 15.87 seconds breathings space over Ballarat Clarendon College. A second St Pat's boat was third in sometimes testing windy conditions.
WINNING BALLARAT CREWS
BALLARAT CITY RC
Male open single scull (Osborne Willson)
Male C grade double scull (Andrew Leehane)
Male D grade coxed four (Marcus Dann, Max Matthews, Hamish Richardson, Monty Lawson, cox Caspian Linayao)
Female C grade coxed quad scull (Lucy Richardson, Sue Peacock, Claire Boatman, Kathy Lloyd, cox Caspian Linayao)
WENDOUREE BALLARAT RC
Female under-21 single scull (Charlotte Ashley)
Female D grade coxed quad scull (Nadene Murfett, Hannah Kerber, Alicia Ivory, Kellie Egan, cox Kelly Bevan)
