GRR: CRAA
Life University's joining of the Rugby East this coming fall is the latest move in an interlocking sequence of gears within the college game.
This fall produced fully nine women’s collegiate champions on at least a moderately national level.
NIRAThree of them were in the NCAA varsity league, NIRA.
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If you want an advertisement for the Bowl Game concept, look no further than Ohio State vs Penn State at the CRAA Fall Classic.
The game pitted two colleges that are rivals in any sport. It promised to be close and perhaps was even closer than that. It produce drama, quality rugby, and was hugely entertaining.
The University of Kentucky rode a huge first half to win the Mint City Bowl over Colorado State.
Kentucky came into the game determined to show they were quite possibly the best DIAA team in the nation but negating CSU's kicking game and winning the field position contest. They did that, while CSU made some uncharacteristic mistakes that hurt them.
Lindenwood and Life University know each other all too well.
The two Women's D1 Elite programs have faced off three times in the last seven months, and Saturday will make it four. In May they met up in he CRAA D1 Elite Final, won by Lindenwood. And this fall, with the entire D1 Elite season shifted to the fall, they met in two regular-season games, with Lindenwood winning both.