Nationals day 1

Today we played our first game against Claremont College. We crushed them 44-0. We started off strong and stayed that way for the whole 80 minutes. This win advanced us to the elite 8 which we will now play tomorrow. A win tomorrow will rocket us into the final fours which are to be played in Stanford California the first weekend in May. Wish us luck!

Nationals!!!!

Hey everyone I just wanted to let anyone reading this know that the Women's Rugby Team will be leaving for Nationals in Florida tomorrow morning. There's going to be a send off party at 11:30ish at the ARC. I want anyone who can come to be there to give us some encouragement!!! It's going to be some tough competition down there but I think we're well prepared. We'll play two games, one Saturday and one Sunday. If we win both of those we'll be going to Final Fours in California the first weekend in May. I'll update you on how we do when I get back all nice and tan. =]

Cherry Blossom Tournament

This past weekend the Slippery Rock Women's Rugby Team attended the annual Cherry Blossom Tournament in Washington D.C. We took first place! Yay us! We played 5 games and were undefeated. The scores from our games are as follows... Sru v UMBC 46-5, Sru v Elon 37-0, Sru v Pitt 15-0, Sru v Navy 14-3, Sru v Hamilton 7-5. Everyone on the team got a chance to play this weekend and I'm sure everyone had a lot of fun. I know I did =]

Rugby Background

So I figured I would blog about the Slippery Rock Women's Rugby Team because we are one pretty bomb team. Before I start posting details about how we're doing I figured you would all need a brief background of the game to fully understand what I'm saying. The place we play the game is called the "pitch". It looks pretty much like a football field on steroids. The ball also looks like a football on steroids because it is nice and plump with more rounded edges. Basic game play consists of two 40 minutes halves. The ball must always be passed backwards, a forward pass results in a penalty. To score is called a "try" and you must physically touch the ball to the ground for it to count. Now that you kind of know what rugby is I will be posting more scores and highlights later on.