5-1

Easy game last weekend against WPI, what we were expecting towards our dominance over their team. The final score was 43-5. The top scorer was Kevin Cloutier with 2 tries. I feel like we could have beat them by more but we seemed to play down to their level, which we have done in the past. Our big game is next weekend  against Keene State College, which is a win or go home type of game. We have the potential to win big this weekend. It seems like it will be a backs game as Keene States backs are their weakness. If we were to lose this weekend we will be out of national playoffs and will be places in the plate championship game. We made the plate last year and want to go much farther this year. I would rather lose in the national playoffs then make the plate championship.

4-1

Unfortunately, we lost this past weekend against Babson College. It was a hard fought battle but our forwards were overpowered and the kicker for Babson did a very good job kicking the ball into our 22 meter line where they pounded the ball in numerous times when they had the wind to their back. Our backs got it together in the second half scoring a couple of time but by that time it was too late. Our defense let up 37 points while we only scored 17. Our next game should be a gimme win against WPI as they are the worst team in the league. Our next game, however is a must win against Keene State College if we want to make playoffs and eventually make Nationals.

4-0!

So this past weekend we played Amherst College and didnt play as well as i had hoped. We won but we came out of the gates down 7-0 due to a mall down near our own 22 that we were not ready for. We held them from there on out not letting up anymore tries as we tied the game up going into the half. Out of the half we came out dominant scoring on them six more times to finalize the score at 49-7. Our forwards did most of the work on the tries from a combination of pick and go plays and hard hitting rugby. I played for about 20 minutes as i came halfway through the second half. I played well besides a knocked ball on the opposite side of the field. Now were 4-0 and will be playing our hardest game of the season this upcoming saturday.

3-0

We won our third straight against Castleton which we went into sort of knowing we would win due to past years outcomes. We won 40-12, and played a hard fought game. Plymouth State Rugby is sort of known to be scrappy, but this game we played strong headed not giving up many fouls dealing with illegal moves.