The Rugby East Conference is a premier collegiate rugby conference in the United States, which determines its champion based on regular-season records rather than a playoff. The conference consists of Army West Point, Life University, University of Mary Washington, Mount St. Mary's University, U.S. Naval Academy (Navy), Penn State University, and Southern Virginia University.
Navy held off Life University 20-14 in a top-of-the-rankings clash Saturday in Marietta.
Life University opened its Rugby East account with a 40-21 victory over Mary Washington Saturday.
This was the first ever Rugby East game for the Running Eagles as they moved into the conference starting this year.
Well it was pretty dramatic in Rugby East action Saturday with two nailbiters producing two historic results.
St. Bonaventure recorded their first ever win over the modern era over West Point, and Mount St. Mary's recorded their first ever win over Kutztown.
Rugby East teams had a solid weekend playing against teams outside their conference.
Yes Navy and Army both lost to Trinity, the rugby team for Dublin University, but the scorelines, competitive at 36-14 and 38-7.
It was an intriguing weekend in Men's D1 college rugby as we saw quite a few cross-divisional matchups and, perhaps, some harbingers of how things might shake out this season.
