Harvard Sets Scoring Record, Thumping Yale 111-5
Harvard's women's rugby team defeated Yale in historic fashion in its Ivy League opener, thrashing the Bulldogs, 111-5, to set the program record for points scored in a game. The Crimson improves to 2-0 on the year and 1-0 in Ivy play.
The Crimson took a commanding 56-0 lead at the half. Harvard was led by a pair of freshmen as Weigel and Sarah Lipson led the charge, each registering three tries on the day. However, the Crimson displayed a total team effort as 14 different players recorded a try.
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Yale visits Harvard in the first weekend of 2015 fall fifteens Ivy rugby. KO is at noon.
"The squad is very excited to play the first Ivy League game of the season," Yale Coach Craig Wilson says. "The spirit in camp is fantastic and everyone has bought into the journey we have started. Harvard is going to be a tough challenge but one that we are going to embrace. We will go to Harvard with a positive mindset and wear the YWRFC jersey with pride."
Keys to the game for Yale: "The team is very much in a transition phase so we will be focusing on the processes that we have started to put in place over the off-season. For Yale, we are focusing on the 'bigger picture' and aim to continually improve with each match. We are very excited to be blooding some rookies who will be experiencing their first ever contact game."