Women’s Rugby Advances to the Championship Match With Three Victories at the Beast of the East

Portsmouth, RI - When the dust had settled and the windswept Gardner Seveney Sports Complex was closing down after multiple games of Rugby, the Vassar Brewers had earned their 16th opportunity at the title on Sunday. Two victories over U.Mass., Amherst 31-7 and 24-0 after an opening game in the morning against Fordham University that was an emphatic 55-0 win put them in this position. Day one ended in somewhat bizarre fashion with U.Mass., Amherst deciding at halftime that they no longer wanted to continue playing due to lack of front row players. Although playing with uncontested scrums was an...