GRR: College Men
Navy clinched 1st in the Rugby East with a 28-8 defeat of St. Bonaventure Saturday.
Lewis Gray opened the scoring with a try and the conversion and while St. Bonaventure answered with a penalty goal, a try from Dale Sturdifen and a Roanin Krieger penalty put the Midshipmen up 15-3 at the break.
Bowling Green will face University of Louisville in the final of the Mid-American Conference after both won semifinals in the snow on Saturday.
In a tense, dramatic final worthy of the name Indiana eked by Ohio State to win the Big Ten Conference final Saturday night in South Bend, Ind.
Played at the University of Notre Dame, which hosted four games for placement from 1st to 8th in the conference, the final capped off an entertaining day of rugby.
Indiana took the conference title, Ohio State is second.
This is a calm before the storm kind of weekend in D2, but at the same time, the games that are being played carry plenty of weight.
UNC-Charlotte vs North Carolina State is a game being made up after it was postponed on October 1, and has turned out to be a conference decider as well as a national playoff seeding decider.
No one really knows what to make of the western bracket of the NCR Men's Small College playoffs, because every team is really strong.
Cal Poly Humboldt out of California, 2021 runners-up New Mexico Tech, Colorado School of Mines (who beat NMT this year), and a surging Western Oregon all come in with plenty to recommend them.