The Chesapeake Collegiate Rugby Conference was a college rugby conference that has since been absorbed into the larger Rugby East Conference. The Chesapeake conference, which included universities from Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, competed under the National Collegiate Rugby (NCR) umbrella and is noted for its competitive games. The transition to Rugby East expanded the larger conference to 11 teams.
The top teams keep winning in the Chesapeake, but there is a showdown coming.
Mary Washington hosted Virginia Tech Rugby Saturday and came away 76-12 winners. These two programs have a long and respect-filled rivalry but the COVID shutdown has been tough on the club teams in the Chesapeake.
Mount St. Mary's defeated Southern Virginia University 39-15 in a rescheduled game delayed until Monday, October 11.
SVU was just coming off a 19-14 win over Virginia Tech on Saturday.
Mary Washington and Mount St. Mary's both joined Queen's University Charlotte atop the Chesapeake Conference after both teams won games this weekend.
Mount St. Mary's shut out Virginia Tech on the road this past weekend, taking the Hokies down 35-0.
The match kicked off in hot conditions. The Mount started the game off quickly with a try by Angelo Gurcsik five minutes in. The forwards provided a strong scrum platform for the backs to work the ball through the ends to release the senior wing Gurcsik on the edge.
It was a weekend of which teams were ready for the fall and which teams need more time in the Chesapeake Rugby Conference.
