College Men
Stony Brook took a big step toward winning the Empire Men's DI Conference with a 24-17 defeat of #27 and previously undefeated Colgate.
Towson University, ranked #5 by Goff Rugby Report, put in an impressive performance Saturday in defeating 10th-ranked Georgetown 43-7 in Capital Conference play.
The two highly-rated Men’s DII college programs knew this was a key game in figuring out who might win the conference, and played like it.
Wisconsin-Whitewater continues to roll in the WIIL with an impressive 85-0 shutout of UW-Stout.
It’s been a long season for Stout, which started the fall ranked in Goff Rugby Report’s top ten, in part because they hadn’t lost a lot of players to graduation. But things have not gone their way, while Whitewater continues to win.
There’s a bit of a shakeup in the NECRC as the University of Vermont has beaten Rhode Island 32-5.
Grand Valley State University won big again in the Great Lakes Conference, beating Oakland University 49-0.
In an entertaining, wide open game, GVSU got another strong effort from flyhalf Louis Ricard. The French-trained pivot does well to read the game and spot weaknesses, and he worked well with scrumhalf Steven Gilbert.