2013 Division 1 Week 9

In Week 9 action, Boston cruised to an easy win over Middlesex Rugby, extending a 45-5 halftime lead into a 83-12 win; while in the big clash in New York, NYAC had a somewhat surprising 53-17 win over Old Blue, with NYAC really putting the points on the board in the second half after leading 19-14 at the half.

The New England Division 1 game of the week lived up to expectations, with the Boston Irish Wolfhounds scoring a narrow 18-16 win over Mystic River to capture the Briar Cup.

In Malden, the game did not provide many moments of free flowing rugby, but whatever it lacked in that category it made up for in intensity as neither side was willing to cede an inch to the local rival.

The Wolfhounds converted early pressure into points, taking advantage of a botched Mystic clearance to score the first try of the day after twelve minutes, flanker Mike Dunphy getting credit for the score. Fifteen minutes later the Wolfhounds scored another try, this one after forcing a turnover at midfield and winning the kick and chase, scrumhalf Fred Deangelo coming up with the ball.

With the Wolfhounds in danger of pulling away, Mystic hit a penalty on the team’s first real foray into scoring territory to bring the score to 10-3, and that was the half time score.  Mystic continued their best period of rugby after the half, and kicker Mike Armstrong nailed another penalty to bring the score to 10-6, before Wolfhound’s Paddy Owens replied with a penalty to push the gap back to seven points .  Mid way through the half, Mystic’s Tim Holkenborg finished off a sweeping scoring movement, and the accurate Armstrong’s conversion tied the score at 13-13.
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With fifteen minutes left, the Wolfhounds Alex Verdaguer broke from the back of a lineout near half way, and fed supporting second row Lulama Maveta who touched down near the corner.  Mystic reduced the gap with another penalty to make it 18-16, but it was the Wolfhounds who finished the game in the Mystic half to preserve the win.

“That’s what rugby is all about” said Wolfhounds coach Fergal Hehir, “18-16, tough matches like that, there really isn’t much between us. I thought we did deserve to win the game, our set piece was good and put their’s under pressure….and in the end I thought it was a fair result. I think their back row, especially Hollywood who would get on any team in the country at the moment, you have to get outside the back row because they stop attacks right on the gain-line and it is very hard to get going. It was scrappy but we came through in the end and I’m happy”.

Mystic coach David Gonzales commented “we killed ourselves in the first 30 minutes, we spent too much time messing around,  where we had the outs and didn’t take them so the ten point (Wolfhound lead) was fair. Later we actually got to play some rugby and we got the ball in hand and we started to show a little of what we can do. I was hoping it would flow more, but he game was ultimately decided by the penalty count and not by the rugby, but well done to the Hounds”.

The Wolfhounds finish the Fall portion of the schedule at (3-6), just ahead of Mystic River (3-6), but Mystic can leverage a win over White Plains (1-7) in the last game to edge past the Wolfhounds thanks to a superior bonus points won.  Middlesex (1-6) will travel to Old Blue (6-2) in the other game next week.  The final game of the season has Boston (7-0) hosting NYAC (7-0) in a mouth watering contest that should go some distance to deciding the final standings.  This final game is scheduled for November 16th.

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