DIAA College Rugby News
The Mid-Atlantic Rugby Conference has announced that it is bringing two new members into the conference at the D1AA competition level.
The University of Pennsylvania will be joining effective for spring 2023 7s competition; Virginia Tech Rugby Football Club will be joining effective for fall 2023 15s competition.
Led by a 6-0 Sam Houston State the Lonestar Conference holds its playoffs this weekend.
All eight teams will play three shortened games over the weekend to decide 1 through 8. SHSU is the #1 seed with 5-1 Texas State #2.
We covered some of the conferences this week.
At 2-0 and atop the California DIAA Conference, the Sacramento State Hornets know they haven’t really accomplished anything yet.
Sac State’s comfortable wins over Nevada and Stanford are just a precursor to dealing with Chico State and Fresno State in the future.
With Florida DIAA College Conference leaders South Florida getting a bye this weekend, USF could sit back and watch the rest of the league go at each other.
Which is exactly what they did.
Two of the games were one-pointers, with Florida edging past Florida Atlantic 18-17 and Florida International coming back to defeat Florida State 34-33.
So much is going on in this weekend in college rugby.
BYU is touring Arizona and plays Grand Canyon on Thursday night and the UA Wildcats on Saturday.
Both GCU and Arizona are coming off good wins. Arizona's over Utah in Las Vegas was quite comprehensive.