For Immediate Release
College Rugby
Poughkeepsie, NY
Sunday April 28th, 2019
The Vassar College Women finished the 2018-19 season on a massive high winning the Tri-State Conference 7s.
The Championship went off like clockwork although the weather was cold and wet. The outstanding RRSNY officials did a wonderful job moving the games along. The tournament consisted of 4 groups of 4 and the top 2 in each group advanced to the single elimination playoffs with quarterfinals, semis and the final.
In Group A the Montclair State University Women defeated the defending champions Marist College and topped the group. Marist had a slew of injuries that really hampered their defense but they advanced as the second team from A.
In Group B Vassar and SUNY-New Paltz Women went through with the Hawks getting past Fordham and Siena B.
In Group C it was Fairfield that looked particularly strong with plenty of pace and the surprise was that the Vassar Women B-side squeezed into second place and a quarterfinal slot.
In group D Stony Brook University Women emerged as the top team with Siena College the runner-up.
Quarterfinal match-ups saw Montclair State v SUNY-New Paltz; Vassar v Marist; Fairfield v Siena; Stony Brook v Vassar B.
Stony Brook took care of Vassar B; Marist fell to Vassar A; Montclair defeated New Paltz and Siena beat Fairfield.
In the semifinals Vassar faced a very quick Montclair team and at the same time Stony Brook took on Siena.
The final pitted Vassar against the Stony Brook University Women and in difficult conditions, more akin to November than April, Vassar ran in 6 tries and kept a clean sheet.
See all the results here:
See the Standings after round-robin play here:
Congratulations to all the teams for a good day of 7s.