Men's College 7s News
Marist defeated Hofstra to win the Tri State Conference Men's 7s Championship Sunday, making it a 15s-7s conference double for Marist.
Hofstra made the final with a 31-0 defeat of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the semifinals, while Marist held off Fairfield 30-19 to make the championship game. The Fairfield team entered into this tournament was their development side.
The brackets for the USA Rugby 7s College Championships are starting to fill up and more details will come out about that, but details have already emerged about the tournament as a whole.
On Sunday, April 10 the Tri-State Conference Men's 7s Championship will be held at Hofstra University, with 16 teams in action.
The teams will come from 13 colleges, with three of those colleges, Hofstra, Vassar, and Marist, fielding two sides. The overall winner may advance to the NCR tournament on Memorial Day weekend in New Orleans.
For the first time since Spring, 2019, the Big Ten Universities Rugby Conference assembled for a league 7s tournament.
The players have changed since COVID – Minnesota has left the conference while Penn State has joined (for 7s only).
Wheeling University defeated The Citadel to win the Nail City 7s over the weekend.
The tournament, held at Wheeling featured 12 teams: Wheeling, WVU, Citadel, Robert Morris, Christendom, Franciscan, IUP, Alderson Broaddus, Slippery Rock, Clarion, Frostburg, and a Motley side. They were divided in four pools of three.
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