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We have five non-standings games within NIRA this week, with Oxford University coming to the Northeast to play Harvard and West Point.
Oxford is in-country right now and will train at Harvard Friday before playing the Crimson on Saturday. They then play West Point on Wednesday and the US Naval Academy next Friday.
Mount St. Mary's is looking to make a surge into the upper echelon of the Rugby East and D1A, and they have an impressive, but young, team with which to do it.
USA Men's 15s Head Coach Scott Lawrence has made several changes to the USA lineup as they look to face Samoa in the 3rd-place game in the Pacific Nations Cup.
While Japan plays Fiji for the championship, and Tonga has already won 5th over Canada. The 3rd-4th game between USA and Samoa will be live on Peacock on Saturday morning at 3AM.
Eagle HS is coming off a Girls HS Club National Championship and immediately turned around to start strong in fall 7s in Idaho.
The first two weeks of Idaho’s ADA league has seen Eagle beat Kuna 40-5, Meridian 38-5, and, this past weekend, Meridian 41-5, and Kuna 42-0.
This was an entertaining NCR D1 ranking to update, but also a tough one to work on.