College Men
Wheeling University defeated The Citadel to win the Nail City 7s over the weekend.
The tournament, held at Wheeling featured 12 teams: Wheeling, WVU, Citadel, Robert Morris, Christendom, Franciscan, IUP, Alderson Broaddus, Slippery Rock, Clarion, Frostburg, and a Motley side. They were divided in four pools of three.
This article is a combined rankings and divisional update piece.
As skipped last week's rankings because there were only a small number of results and while those results would have prompted one major change, we decided to wait until this week, because once again several teams were idle, so combined we have a decent number of games.
The final four teams in the Florida DIAA league are set after three teams won their quarterfinals and joined Florida State, who had a bye, in the semis.
None of the games were easy-going, and even the heavily favored teams had to work for it.
Sacramento State edged UC Santa Cruz 21-20 to advance to the Pacific Western Conference final on Sunday, and also book a spot in the ACR DIAA spring playoffs.
Sac State came into the game behind UC Santa Cruz in the league standings, having lost to both UCSC and Fresno State, while Santa Cruz had only lost to Fresno State.
Sacramento State will take on UC Santa Cruz Friday night to decide who joins Fresno State in Sunday's Pacific Western championship match.
Fresno State will get a bye to the final because the 4th-place team, Chico State, is unable to make the trip to Fresno.