 Under less than ideal weather, on an impeccable pitch, and with a raucous home crowd, the Huskers closed out the season in sufficient fashion.In the first game against Wayne, the Huskers started off slow, knocking off the rust from 3 weeks off. They started firing on all cylinders mid-way through the first half, pumping out three quick tries, behind a terrorizing forward pack to jump up 17-0. The boys put another one in before half, sitting at 22-0 at the half. The second half was highlighted by departing senior Prop, Brandon Smid, slicing and dicing through the demoralized Wayne defense for several tries. To close the game, the fleet footed Aaron West, knocked it on, unbenounced to the referee, for his zulu try, putting the final score at 45-0. In the final game against Creighton the Huskers started right where they left off, with #8 Eric hagen taking the opening kick-off back for a try. Unfortunately it only got uglier, scoring a few more tries in the first few minutes. The back line had its way with the blue birds as well, scoring at will, as if it were on a playstation. With most of the B side in for the second half, the scoring came to an end with a fantastic display of athleticism for another zulu try by Drew Cuiffo. Final score 44-8. After a hard but successful day of rugby, the boys put the season in the books with the Rugby Prom later that night. -------------- The first annual Red-White-Black Sevens Megabowl, on the friday before the spring game, was a blazing success. The Black team won, taking the cup in dramatic fashion. Defeating soundly the 'statistically unstoppable' white team by a large margin. Then continued by capping the night by embarrassing the red team highlighted by the nimble footed Prop, Brandon Smid, chip and chasing, and outrunning a swift back, Tom Brezinski, for a humiliating try. Eightman and resident 7's hooker also had the run around scoring numerous tries, overall a successful night for all. The red team, captained by Martin Downes, won the plate. The white team, captained by Chris 'underarmor' Casper, pulled it up the rear by claiming the bowl. The victorious black team was captained by Jake Grasmick
-------------- Huskers won soundly against Principia 40-0 in the first game of the round of 32. They continued their winning ways by defeating a strong Harlequins team out of Milwaukee 34-5 to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinal match Nebraska faced Metropolis a sharp Mens Club out of Minneapolis but a long day of rugby took its toll on the team and lost 7-17. Metropolis ended up dominating in the semi-finals and final to win the tournament. -------------- The Huskers travel to St. Louis this weekend (4/4) for Ruggerfest. -------------- UNL finished the league season this semester a perfect 4-0, defeating K-State 29-24 behind another dominating performance from the forward pack. -------------- Nebraska won sloppily against a good Truman team, 37-22, under the lights on friday night. -------------- This weekends game against Truman St. has been moved to Friday(3/6) at 7PM under the lights. -------------- With the highs in the low 20's, a bitter North wind, and 5 inches of snow on the ground, Nebraska lost a sloppy game with Minnesota, 14-27. -------------- Nebraska won a hard fought, back and forth, match behind a dominating forward pack against Oklahoma, winning 29-27 on Saturday. Finished Sunday with a dominating victory against OSU 58-0. -------------- SPRING 2009 SCHEDULE IS STILL BEING PIECED TOGETHER BUT IS POSTED -------------- UNL came out strong and took 3rd at the Big XII Tournament. Beating Texas Tech 38-0, falling to Texas A&M 12-29, and defeating Iowa State 31-22 in the 3rd place game. -------------- As always, the Nebraska Rugby Club is looking for athletes interested in the great sport of rugby to join the club! For contact information, email Jeff Hunter at: jwh.bigred@gmail.com!
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