HENLEY, England (AP) — American crews won just two of the 19 trophies at stake Sunday on finals day of the Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames.

The first of these came in the opening race, the Temple Cup for student eights and the only all-American race of the day. The lightweight crew from Princeton extended its unbeaten season, beating Brown’s freshmen crew by three-quarters of a length.

Brown’s varsity crew made amends, beating Britain’s under-23 squad, racing as Leander and Molesey clubs, in the Ladies’ Plate for intermediate eights, by a half length.

A new US national team combination, drawn from the California club and Princeton Training Center raced in the Grand Challenge Cup, perhaps the most prestigious rowing trophy. But this crew found Leander and Molesey too strong and faded despite battling all the way down the course.

In the Remenham Cup for international female eights, Yale lost by three lengths to the Britain international crew racing as Leander and Wallingford clubs.

Yale also fell in the Prince Albert Cup final for student coxed fours, losing an “easily” decision to England’s Oxford Brookes University.

In the Visitors’ Cup for intermediate coxless fours, Mercyhurst College gave away more than 30 pounds a man in headwind conditions and lost to Isis, Oxford, by 31/2 lengths.

Throughout the week, Gewie Stone from Cambridge (Mass.) Boat Club had looked comfortable as she cruised to the final of the Princess Grace Cup for international female single scullers. But she lost by 21/4 lengths to New Zealand’s Emma Twigg of Hawkes Bay Club.