College Men
This weekend sees a few crux games in a variety of D1A and NCR D1 conferences.
We visited Fairfield Thursday night and they have a key game against Dartmouth in New Hampshire. Both teams lost close ones against AIC that they might have felt they should have won. Now which team can stay among the top three? We find out Saturday.
The College. Rugby Association of America (CRAA) and 8X8 Sports has launched a Player of the Week award and this is the first week.
(8X8 Sports is Goff Rugby Report's new kit provider. Go to 8x8sports.com)
With action in four separate divisions, four separate Player of the Week nods were given. Here is who and why:
We don't have a ton of moves this week but one or two are consequential.
Well we've been talking about how there's a top tier and a 2nd tier and then a 3rd tier in Men's D2 college rugby, and it's clear to us that is the case.
Fourteen of our Top 20 played, and only one lost. That loss was #15 losing to #10.
Grand Valley State had opened their season in impressive fashion.
Having beaten Great Midwest team Loyola in emphatic fashion the Lakers followed that with two wins this weekend. GVSU beat Notre Dame's 2nds in a close one, and then won their conference game over Calvin College 70-7.
"We got a good team effort in both games," said Head Coach John Mullett.