GRR: College Men
Life University clinched 1st in the Mid-South Saturday, but it wasn’t exactly easy.
Playing their first conference game on the road, the Running Eagles needed some last-second heroics to score in the final seconds to win the game.
Dartmouth won the Ariel Re Bermuda 7s Saturday, surprising Kutztown in the semifinals and defeating Stony Brook in the final.
Stony Brook also had a good tournament, losing only to Dartmouth (twice - in pool play and in the final).
For Dartmouth, the big result was the semifinal 12-10 victory over Kutztown, a result that not everyone would have predicted.
Penn State enjoyed a torrid middle part of the game to defeated Indiana University 48-32, handing IU their first loss in the 2015-16 season.
West Point stormed back from a 21-12 halftime deficit to defeat Utah 29-26 Saturday in Salt Lake City.
Utah looked very solid in the first half but imploded in the second half as Army came storming back.
The Capital Rugby 7s series continues this weekend in Blacksburg, Va.
Last week, Kutztown ran the table with two teams. KU is in Bermuda, but it remains an intriguing group of teams. Virginia Tech heads up Pool B that includes Virginia and the 2nd teams from South Carolina and James Madison (their 1st team is playing at JMU's own Keystone event Saturday).