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New Additions for ECRC Season

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New Additions for ECRC Season

AIC looks to run strong in the ECRC once more. David Barpal photo.

The East Coast Rugby Conference (ECRC) kicks off September 11 with the defending champion AIC Yellowjackets taking on 2014-15 Small-College champion New England College.

NEC has moved up to the DIAA ECRC, and will be welcomed with a tough opening game against an AIC team that went 7-1, including 6-0 in conference play and a win over Bowling Green in the ACRC Bowl Series. Their only loss was to Kutztown University.

Aside from AIC’s dominance, the ECRC was a very competitive conference in 2014, with three teams finishing 4-2 - Boston College, Middlebury, and UMass.  Meanwhile, NEC isn’t the only addition to the conference. Fairfield, which won the Tri-State Conference in DII, going undefeated, has moved up to DIAA, as well. Fairfield joins UConn as a Connecticut team. The conference is now nine teams in five states - Massachusetts (four teams), Connecticut (2), and one each from New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

AIC remains the favored team, but will face a stern new challenge from NEC, and the three runners-up from 2014 will likewise find some new competition.

The ECRC will finish its season at the ACRC Bowl Series in Charlotte, NC.

 

9/11/2015 New England College at AIC
9/12/2015 Albany at Fairfield
9/12/2015 UCONN at UMASS
9/19/2015 Boston College at Albany
9/19/2015 UCONN at Middlebury
9/19/2015 Fairfield at New England College
9/19/2015 Northeastern at UMASS
9/26/2015 AIC at Albany
9/26/2015 Northeastern at Boston College
9/26/2015 UMASS at Fairfield
9/26/2015 New England College at Middlebury
10/3/2015 AIC at Northeastern
10/3/2015 UCONN at Fairfield
10/3/2015 UMASS at New England College
10/3/2015 Middlebury at Boston College
10/10/2015 Fairfield at AIC
10/10/2015 Middlebury at Albany
10/10/2015 Boston College at New England College
10/10/2015 Northeastern at UCONN
10/17/2015 AIC at Middlebury
10/17/2015 Albany at Northeastern
10/17/2015 UMASS at Boston College
10/17/2015 UCONN at New England College
10/22/2015 AIC at UCONN
10/24/2015 Albany at UMASS
10/24/2015 Boston College at Fairfield
10/24/2015 Northeastern at New England College
10/30/2015 UMASS at AIC
10/31/2015 New England College at Albany
10/31/2015 Boston College at UCONN
10/31/2015 Fairfield at Middlebury
11/7/2015 Boston College at AIC
11/7/2015 Albany at UCONN
11/7/2015 Northeastern at Fairfield
11/7/2015 Middlebury at UMASS
11/14/2015 Northeastern at Middlebury