9.17.05

North Shore 16 MIT 15

This is going to be brief, as we pretty much did as little as possible to get a win.

There was very little flow to this game, as the slightly wet conditions and somewhat sloppy ballhandling kept it disjointed. We did enough to carve out a a lead in the first half. One of our tries I believe was the result of Jesse Brewer running in support of Matt Thibault and receiving an inside pass and taking it down the sideline for a score.

Two penalties were added by Rich Depiero, and also another try which was attributed to Scott Marcoulier, presumably running outside on a counter-attack. All that really stands out is that at one point we had a 16-5 lead which dwindled over the course of the game to 16-15 with an MIT try with pretty much no time left on the clock, and the angle of the kick made it near impossible to convert. We held onto the one point lead and sweated out the win.

Not to be overlooked were some guys stepping up, namely TBo propping and then Kenny replacing him at #3, Neal Toomey coming in as a late-game sub and making a huge effort to get across the field and make a tackle, and many of our forwards and some backs holding the line and preventing any other scores.

MIT had a strong fullback who we kicked towards much too often, as well as some crafty runners in their backline and hard-hitting forwards. This was a game of missed opportunities for us though, with two knock-ons inside five meters and some bad decision making. Onto next week and chalk it up as another learning experience.

B-side: NSRFC 31 MIT 17

The B game was more wide open, with running room to be found and hard hits and runs from Frank Chung and Luis Frances, with some veteran play mixed in from Dan Solomon and Gus del Puerto along with Vudu Matt Richard, Rob Moran, Jesse Brewer, Trevor Maz, Mouth Addison and Craig Hutchinson.

Scoring were Luis (first one ever - nice!), Maz, the ever crafty Solomon, Hutchinson, and Moran on a gift from Maz...