The Newport Aquatic Center’s boys’ Newport Harbor varsity 8 boat, pulls through the Back Bay during recent practice. The team won the US Rowing Southwest Youth Championships and the annual Battle of The Bay regatta where they prevailed over Corona Del Mar on the 1500 meter race course at Marina Park. The team of Blake Richter , Frank Choumas, Garrett Putnam, Justin Coar, Grant Person, Caleb Cowles, Parker Ruiz, Nate Porter, and coxswain Natasha Ellis, are shown above, right to left, in the boat. (Don Leach / Daily Pilot)