For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
Posted in Championships, Match Reports, NRU on Nov 15th, 2009
In the Northeast final Middlebury lost to UVM by 4 points. Middlebury comes back from 3 – 14 to lead by 1 point with 20 minutes left. With 10 minutes left UVM scores a good try spreading the ball wide from a turnover midfield just inside the Middlebury half.
Both teams had played tough games the [...]
Posted in Match Reports on Nov 14th, 2009
Middlebury beat Stony Brook in the NRU semifinal by 11 points at UMass-Amherst. The muddy, uneven field was drenched with rain and there were literally puddles all over. The rain only let up for the 30 mins after the other semi-final – as soon as our game kicked it began to drizzle and only got [...]
Posted in Match Reports, NRU on Nov 7th, 2009
Middlebury books a place in the Northeast semi’s with a win over Hamilton 51 – 5. The win is a great bounce-back for Middlebury after suffering their worst loss in recent history to UMass-Amherst the previous weekend. This young team worked hard all week to correct their mistakes and bring new players up-to-speed. With injuries [...]
Posted in Match Reports, New Englands on Nov 4th, 2009
This Saturday Middlebury, the New England #2 seed, takes on the New York #2 seed, Hamiltion, at the Tree Farm fields in Essex Junction (click here for directions). Kick-off at 1 PM. It will be the end of the season for one of the teams with the winner going on to the NRU Championship weekend [...]
Posted in Championships, Match Reports, New Englands on Nov 1st, 2009
In the New England Championship Final Middlebury lost to UMass by 34 points to 3.
UMass scores early in the first half and shows absolute dominance in the scrum, which continued throughout the game – the Midd pack were only able to win 1 or 2 of their own scrums let alone compete on UMass’ scrums. [...]
Posted in Match Reports, New Englands on Oct 31st, 2009
In their second meeting of the year Middlebury again overcomes a resilient UVM team in a nail-biter. Despite missing several regular starters due to injury The MCRC get the “W” and go on to the New England Final tomorrow. Forwards captain Chris Mutty scores a try from a quick tap early in the game. Sirkia [...]
Posted in Match Reports, New Englands on Oct 25th, 2009
Another shutout weekend for The MCRC – overcoming UMO by 41 points. This marks our 4th consecutive shutout. Next weekend we will be hosting the New England Championships as the #1 seed and defending champions.
This weekend was a true test of character for Middlebury as they faced a team who had certain players willing to [...]
Posted in Match Reports on Oct 18th, 2009
The sun was shining but Middlebury made it rain. Where to begin…1st try of the game came within 59 seconds of the opening kick-off. The most impressive part of Middlebury’s performance was their ability to keep up the pressure throughout – playing 80 minutes of smart, tactically sound, champagne rugby. It’s easy for the dominant [...]
Posted in Alumni, Match Reports on Oct 17th, 2009
Not that the result was ever in question (at least not in the minds of the alums): the Middlebury alumni team, The Legends, beat a resilient Middlebury B side on Saturday, October 17 after the Williams games. Final score was 22 – 0 with tries scored by Dom Coulson ‘94, Matt Volz ‘07 and Muchadei [...]
Posted in Match Reports on Oct 11th, 2009
Middlebury had this away game wrapped up by the end of the half leading 45 – 0 after 40 minutes. 9 tries for the Blue with a hatrick in the first half coming from backs captain Eddie “Laser” Cahill. Forwards captain Chris Mutty also got in on the scoring as did 9 man Don Song [...]
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