{"id":21115,"date":"2024-05-14T17:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=21115"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:31:08","slug":"results-of-the-rugby-teams-matches-at-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/results-of-the-rugby-teams-matches-at-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of the rugby teams matches’ at nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by: Jaylin Hardin | Sports Editor<\/span><\/p>\n

With both men\u2019s and women\u2019s+ rugby in Washington D.C. for the National 7s Tournament Collegiate Rugby Championship, each team faced formidable opponents from all over the country. Though it wasn\u2019t an easy fight, the Western rugby program put on a good show, representing the West Coast and Oregon in the Small College division.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First-round nerves hit both teams, dropping them to lower brackets in the first round. Women\u2019s+ limited experience on the national stage may have manifested as they went scoreless until the third round, where they scored five tries against eighth-ranked team, Sewanee the University of the South.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a bit nerve-wracking because it was our first time going, but we all fought as hard as we could,\u201d said junior Shabryna Herrera. \u201cWe all wanted it. It was a great learning experience, not just for me, but for the team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This tournament was the second time the men\u2019s team had attended the 7s CRC, and they fared better than their counterparts. Going two and two in their matchups, their results this year were an improvement from last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The teams now travel into the offseason, with many members of the men\u2019s team playing for the Oregon Sharks Rugby Academy to hone their skills. Some players include Justice Donahoo, Isaac Bare, James Tiboni and Jacob Smith. Bare was also in a six-way tie for the most tries scored by a single player in the tournament \u2014 he scored five tries total \u2014 as well as in the top ten for most points scored all weekend \u2014 a total of 25. Smith was in the top twenty for conversions \u2014 the kick after a team scores a try, similar to a field goal in football, which offers the scoring team the opportunity to add two more points to the board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really fun to go to a large tournament like this,\u201d Bare said. \u201cI think the tournament was (a) good experience for our team because most of our team is returning next year and that has me already excited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Bare also talked about how it was a fun opportunity to compete against players he had met at the Men’s Rugby All-Stars tournament. \u201cIn our final we played Denver and one of their players was my roommate at All-Stars and it was fun to have the opportunity to play against them,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sophomore Micahel Hager shared similar thoughts on his experience at Nationals. \u201cI didn\u2019t get the chance to travel with the team to the tournament last year, so it was an entirely new experience,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was fun. A lot of the guys had never been to (Washington) before. We\u2019re a pretty young team, but we\u2019ll definitely be back next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The men\u2019s team took third place in the Bowl Bracket and eleventh overall, and women\u2019s+ took second place in the Shield Bracket and fourteenth overall. The results of the matchups are below:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Men\u2019s:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

First round \u2014 versus Christendom College, loss 7 – 31<\/span><\/p>\n

Second round \u2014 versus Howard University, win 29 – 10<\/span><\/p>\n

Third round \u2014 versus Loyola University Maryland, loss 12 – 21<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth round \u2014 versus Denver University, win 20 – 14<\/span><\/p>\n

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Women\u2019s+:<\/b><\/p>\n

First round \u2014 versus Colby College, loss 0 – 50<\/span><\/p>\n

Second round \u2014 versus Ohio Wesleyan, loss 0 – 34<\/span><\/p>\n

Third round \u2014 versus Sewanee the University of the South, win 25 – 24\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth Round \u2014versus Baldwin Wallace University, loss 0 – 34<\/span><\/p>\n

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Both men\u2019s and women\u2019s+ begin practice again in the fall for their 15s seasons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at howlsports@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":21116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2832,2830,363,2831],"class_list":["post-21115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-club-rugby","tag-mens-rugby-3","tag-rugby","tag-western-oregon-rugby"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}