GRR: College Men
Airzona State University's men's rugby program has named the 40 players coming in as their freshman class.
The list includes HS All American Chase Bixby out of Granite Bay, Calif., along with Arizona natives Christopher Bey, who is back from LDS mission, and Ben Shockley. The list of 40 + players includes several high profile players
The Rugby Northeast Men’s DII conference season kicked off with two-time defending champion Bentley just escaping a tough Bryant College team.
The two teams were tied 5-5 late in the game and Bryant had the ball and were on the attack.
Cortland State moved to 2-0 in the Upstate NY Men’s DII college conference with a 26-7 defeat of Ithaca College Saturday.
Also moving to 2-0 was Buffalo State, which held off Geneseo 14-7, and Niagara, which beat league newcomers RIT 31-3.
It was all about the close games in the New England Collegiate Rugby Conference, as all three games in the opening weekend of conference play were tight.
One week in and already things are shaken up in the Southern Rugby Conference in men’s DII college competition.
GRR’s #4 team from last year, Furman, went down to Coastal Carolina 29-8 Saturday in something of an upset and a nice birthday present for Coastal’s coach, Tom Barnett.