ANACORTES – The Bainbridge Island High School varsity sailing team brought home first-place honors from the annual Islands Cup Regatta, held this year in Anacortes on April 11-12.

The fleet-racing regatta rotates among various locations in and around the San Juan Islands each year and attracts teams from all over the region.

The Bainbridge High School “Plaid” team, with Stasi Burzycki and Sophia Kasper/Kat Smith in Division A and Jackson McCoy and Hannah Harrison in Division B, took first place out of 32 teams by a comfortable margin and brought home the 2015 Islands Cup.

Fourth place went to the combined team of Will Brown and Josh Rentz in Division A and Caelan Juckniess, Nicole Sanford and Harry Saliba in Division B.

Lucas Burzycki, Elizabeth Rolfes, Christophe Webber, Harry Saliba, Olivia Mitchell and Sophie Crandell placed ninth and Nick Dresel, Karl Anderson, Zach Mellin, Quinn Ring and Cole Garthwaite placed 21st.

The race committee struggled to fit races in on Saturday under challenging weather conditions.

Winds were between 10 and 15 knots, gusting around 25.

Sailors completed four races, two in each division, before racing was called for the day when winds continued to build. As many as six boats capsized on the course at a time.

Weather conditions on Sunday were nearly perfect and six more races were completed in each division.

The team traveled to Coupeville for the fleet district championship Saturday.