Saint Mary's defeated Grand Canyon Saturday in an early-January D1A meeting.
The Gaels won comfortably, 92-3. It's a bit of a rebuilding time for both teams as they came in pretty young. But Saint Mary's obviously has a bit more depth with which to work.
Certainly Gaels Head Coach Tim O'Brien, who graduated 8 starters from last year's D1A championship team, six of which were drafted into the MLR, expects to see some growth.
"We had moments of brilliance combined with more moments of poor decision-making than need to be," O'Brien told GRR. "That said, this is a pretty joyful work in progress."
Saint Mary's played and beat Life West last week before a large number of their players suited up the next day for the California Conference North, which lost to the South.
This week's game was almost the only action of the weekend, but next week things heat up a bit. Santa Clara beat Stanford 42-20 in another non-conference game, this one between a D1A and a D1AA team.
