GRR: Cortland
Binghamton University Rugby faced off against SUNY Cortland Red Dragons Rugby Saturday, with Binghamton coming away 33-22 winners.
With the win, Binghamton improved to 5-2 in the Liberty Empire Conference.
SUNY Cortland will play SUNY Geneseo in the final of the Upstate NY Collegiate Conference Sundat after both won playoff games Saturday.
Geneseo needed all their karma to get by SUNY Oswego. Late in the game Oswego led 34-21, but two late tries, both of them converted, got Geneseo into the championship game in dramatic fashion.
The race for a national playoff spot among Upstate New York teams is still, essentially, wide open, but it might be a little more wide open for a couple of teams at the top.
SUNY Cortland took sole control of first place in the Upstate NY Men's DII College Conference, as they upended the other undefeated team in the league, RIT.
In an intense game where both teams understood what was at stale, the boys from the Rochester Institute of Technology came out strong.
Last year's Upstate NY conference season was one full of questions, and sometimes a surprise answer.
SUNY Cortland looked to be the dominant team as they finished 8-0 in the regular season, but lost to SUNY Oswego in the playoffs. The road to the playoffs itself was interesting, as it wasn't until the last weekend of the season before we knew what the matchups were.