The Penn State Rugby program had a busy weekend with 5 matches at two different locations. Top of the billing were a pair of A side matches against rivals the US Military Academy.
The womens team faced Army at the Anderson rugby complex at West Point, and came away with 39 – 14 victory. Leading 17 – 14 at the half, the team was lead in scoring by sophomore prop Hope Rogers, who had a hat trick on the day!
The Mens team faced the Army ruggers in the comfortable surroundings of West Fields, and showed how hard they have been working this fall in coming away with a 43 – 20 victory. Leading 22 – 8 at halftime, the men were lead in scoring by senior flanker Kevin Kimble, junior outside center Blaze Feury, and sophomore winger Sam LaPaille, each touching down twice for Penn State in the contest!
In the other matches , the women dropped a tough B side match to Army, and in a pair of matches against new varsity program Wheeling Jesuit, the men went 1 and 1, with our B/C side losing a very close match by 5 points against the Wheeling Jesuit A side, and the C/D side winning comfortably against their B side.
All in all a very good weekend for the program.
Full match reports to come soon, so check back!
