GRR: Liberty Conference
RPI laid down ... maybe not a marker, but a warning this past weekend in a close loss to Marist.
The Engineers fell short 12-10 to the Red Foxes, leaving Marist undefeated, but with the conference playoffs looming, RPI could shake things up.
It's already time to think about the playoff scenarios in some conferences, and since the Liberty has multiple levels, let's look at them.
(We'll talk about DII in a separate article. Why? Because we said so.)
Liberty NCR D1As expected there are three undefeated teams in the Liberty NCR D1 league now after the weekend's action.
Brown managed to hold off Fairfield 24-11 Friday night in a tense game that was perhaps closer than the defending NCR D1 champions desired.
For Brown Head Coach David LaFlamme, this could have been a bit of a statement win, but it wasn’t.
Rugby at Ivy League colleges has been in the news quite a bit with rivalries heating up in NIRA and also te Liberty NCR D1, but there's another Ivy program to keep an eye on—Yale.
The Yale men are now 3-0 in the Liberty DIAA Conference, having beaten Rhode Island this past weekend.
That victory put the Bulldogs atop the conference having also beaten Colgate and Columbia.
Big doings in the Liberty Conference as league-leaders Fairfield were upended by Iona in the NCR D1 conference.
The 24-16 victory put Iona at 1-0 and dropped Fairfield to 3-1 and opened things up in the conference.