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The new CRAA Challenger Cup has its finalists as Grand Canyon and Mary Washington won their semifinals by wide margins.
GCU beat a tough Utah State team 72-6 to advance. USU took an early lead with a penalty from Franco Tellechea and stayed on the strong foot for quite a while. However, GCU's defense was up to the task.
Stanford beat Cal in impressive fashion Saturday to win the CRAA Women's D1 title, but it wasn't all Cardinal, as the Bears showed that, yes, they can play rugby too.
Cal came out determined to hit Stanford hard and pressure them into mistakes.
We took a break from the D1A rankings last week because ... reasons ... among them being that we didn't have a lot of results.
Obvsiouly it's playoff time so that makes it relatively easy to rank teams, right? Right?
Not always. The big thing here is that we have top teams that have all lost games. Every single team has lost games.
After some very busy rugby around the nation the West Coast has plenty going on.
More information is coming out about the Central Washington University decision to discontinue rugby (men and women) as varsity sports.
It was a complete surprise to the players and coaches, and as a result, many players are stuck with a big question as to what they do next.