Rugby East Conference News
Reports are that Wheeling Jesuit named Tom Duffy as the team's new Head Coach for the 2016-17 season, replacing Tal Bayer, who left to take the coaching job at New England College.
Penn State put down something of a marker Thursday with an impressive 32-10 defeat of Queens University in Canada.
Queens led early, scoring a try to answer Jimmy Ronin’s penalty to go ahead 5-3. But a lineout and maul led to Chris Burian’s try and Ronin’s conversion to put PSU up 10-3. Burian’s line break set up another Ronin penalty.
West Point is looking for a Rugby East championship, and Stony Brook is looking for an Empire Conference, and both will start that journey on Friday.
Expectations at Penn State are high as the Nittany Lions men's team starts the 2016-17 season.
The Rugby East fall 2016 schedule has been finalized, with nine teams playing each other once through a busy regular season.
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