College Women
Wheeling University defeated Southern Nazarene 58-17 Saturday to win the NCR Women's D1 championship.
Four excellent rugby Bowl Games were on the slate Saturday at the CRAA Fall Classic.
HOA All-Stars vs Florida All-StarsThe Heart of America All-Stars defeated the Florida Collegiate Conference All-Stars 48-17 in the CRAA Fall Classic, starting off a full day of collegiate rugby in Spartanburg, SC.
The Bowl Games at the College Rugby Association of America (CRAA) Fall Classic has expended to include women's teams.
As has been the case in the Fall Classic, the Bowl Games often serve to test teams across conference or even divisional lines.
This year's women's bowl game—the Upstate Challenge Cup—will see Air Force Academy against Penn State.
This year's NCR women's D1 playoffs were a drastic departure from the previous years.
With the addition of a completely new program, the influx of a growing new program, and the appearance of previously-CRAA conferences, the landscape was always going to be different.
Harvard's victory in the NIRA D-I final is yet another indication of how, at times, difficult games through the season can prepare you better for success than blowouts.
It's not that Dartmouth weren't a good team, far from it, but they were shaken when things didn't go their way—shaken sufficiently to make their comeback a bit more difficult.