For Immediate Release
College Rugby – Women
Stony Brook University
Sunday April 7th, 2024
Lions Threepeat as 7s Champions in Tri-State & Siena College wins Small College title.
Division II – Columbia defeat Fairfield
While the end result was the same as the previous 2 years, with Columbia University taking the Tri-State 7s title, the road to that victory was very different. The Tri-State divided the 10 Division II teams into 2 pools of 5 with the top 2 teams from each pool advancing to the semifinals.
In pool play Columbia started as expected but then in game 3 stumbled against Stony Brook University losing 10-5 to the hosts. It was nip and tuck as Marist College certainly looked capable of going undefeated in pool play having already beaten Stony Brook 12-5. But the Lions of Columbia took care of business beating Marist and won the pool although both teams had the same 3-1 record.
In Pool B it was last year’s runner-up Fairfield University who took the honors going 5-0 and second place went to The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) who went 4-1 with wins over Vassar, Montclair State and Rutgers.
Columbia fell behind in their semifinal but rallied to beat TCNJ 19-17 and on the other side of the draw Fairfield dispatched Marist 24-10.
In the Championship game Columbia shut out Fairfield 22-0 and has the opportunity to play at the CRC 7s.
Small College – Siena defeat Hofstra
The Tri-State Small College Division had 6 teams and given the distances traveled it was felt that 1 pool with everyone playing each other and then a final between the top 2 would make for an excellent competition. Teams were allowed extended rosters. Of the 6 teams 3 emerged as clear contenders with those being Drew, Hofstra and Siena. Drew decided to withdraw despite being 3-1 so the Hofstra game was a forfeit.
Hofstra had beaten Siena 10-7 in pool play and the final would see a rematch. It was close yet again but Siena prevailed 17-15.
Congratulations to all the teams present for a full day of Rugby 7s.
Many thanks to Stony Brook University for hosting the event and good luck to Columbia, Siena and Fairfield in their bid to play at the CRC event at the end of the month.
All the game Results & Standings for the day are available in the links at the top of this article.