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NORTHERN COLORADO WINS OPENER |
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Written by Jan Nansel
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Monday, 30 August 2010 08:36 |
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Northern Colorado Rugby Club defeated Denver's Queen City Rugby Club Saturday with a convincing score of 42 to 28. After a warm-up ERRFU tourney the week before, NoCo Rugby was eager to show local fans and supporters what to expect in the upcoming year. Open play support was very vigorous and dominating from the start whistle.
Flyhalf, Tom Staab opened the scoring with a penalty kick in the 12th minute of play with Chad Grappler following close behind with a try in the 15th minute. Two penalty kicks by Queen City kept the score at 8-6 Captain and flanker, Sol Mascarenas completed excellent rucking and mauling by the entire 15 with a try in the 20th minute and Tom Staab made the conversion. Not to be outdone, flanker Harms ran thru heavy opposition, dished to scrum half Jeff Brundage, supported the play and got the ball back to run in for another five points with Staab making the conversion. Queen City made another penalty goal at the 35 minute mark. Drew Grigsby finished with a long run for a try just befor the half whistle making the score 27-9.
Queen City came back after the half determined to put more points on the board with a try by their outside center five minutes into the second stanza, with their prop excecuting a long run for another try shortly after and a conversion. Northern Colorado realized they took their foot off the gas and got back into the scoring with a try by fullback Sherman in the 57th minute. Queen City answered with a try in the 61st minute by their number 8. Jeff Brundage broke for a good gain in stiff defense and after supporting play ended with a 5 pointer. Queen City was still down, but not out with a penalty goal at the 68th minute mark. Dave Luedtke sealed the win with a rousing try after great forward control and rucking in the 77th minute. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 30 August 2010 08:37 |
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CIPP REGISTRATION REQUIRED!!!! |
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Written by Jan K Nansel
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Friday, 27 August 2010 07:59 |
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To all Northern Colorado Rugby Club members: CIPP registration is required to play rugby. This year's registration is DUE. The yearly fee is $60 and must be in place in order to play this Saturday's game against Queen City. To register, go to USArugby.org and navigate to CIPP registration. The name of the club at that site is still FORT COLLINS RUGBY CLUB. |
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Northern Colorado Rugby Season Opener |
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Written by Jan K Nansel
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Friday, 27 August 2010 07:52 |
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Northern Colorado Rugby Club begins the 2010 fall campaign with a home match at the Wildwing pitches with Queen City at noon, Saturday, August 28. Two sides will begin competition for the D1 division of the Eastern Rockies Rugby Union. All players are to be booted and ready to go at 11 a.m. Fans and supporters are invited to come enjoy the day and cheer our boys on. An agreement with the town of Timnath has been reached and we ask that no alchohol be consumed while at the fields. We will retire to Tony's in Fort Collins after the matches. |
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Written by Jan K Nansel
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Saturday, 31 July 2010 08:45 |
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As of Tuesday, Aug. 31 team practice will be held at Boltz Middle School, in Fort Collins at 6 p.m. The venue is on Stover at the west side of the school. The Wildwing pitches will be used for games only, at this time. Be ready promptly at 6 o'clock as we are beginning to run out of light at about 8.
This season promises to be one of the best ever for Northern Colorado Rugby! |
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Last Updated on Friday, 27 August 2010 08:02 |
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Flamingo's get hard win over CSM |
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Written by Brendan Freer
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 20:33 |
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Coming off a great win last weekend against Boulder, Northern Colorado were looking to build and continue to develop against the Colorado School of Mines at home in Timnath. With the Flamingo's the victor 24 - 10
The game kicked off with Northern Colorado scoring within 10 minutes after some great backline work from Todd Oswald and Drew Grigsby. Grigsby was the eventual Try scorer and the conversion was made
However, the excitement was soon over as Northern Colorado went on to concede several penalties over the next ten minutes in the rucks and mauls to allow CSM to get some great ball movement and eventually score under the posts. With the conversion, the scores were tied up at 7. The game continued back and forth again with the penalty count mounting in the favor of mines and the Flamingos were unable to get any steady momentum because of this and the number of turnovers due to silly passes that were never going to hand. Northern Colorado came close on two occasions to scoring again, but if not for a drop ball and a silly penalty against winger Nate Holmes for pushing a defender while chasing down a clever kick from Graepler of a Well earned tight head scrum. The Clock ticked over and so did the simple mistakes for the flamingos. The Forwards were rumbling forward well but trying to do to much was the issue of the day. Instead of doing the basics and holding onto the ball, the big pack forced to many passes and turned over the ball to much for any real momentum to taken advantage of. If it wasn't for some quick thinking from Richard Carter, and a quick tap to dart through the scrambling defense to dot a try over, the scores would have been locked at 7 - 7 going into the half.
Half time: Northern Colorado 14 - CSM 7
The 2nd half started much the way the 1st did. The Flamingos came out fired up and through some great forward work set the backs up to allow winger Kyle Hosmer to score his 1st try of the day. But again the drop balls, turn overs and penalties mounted and we were back in the same position as the 1st half. No good ball, and no momentum to build off. CSM took an easy 3 pointer to close the scores. However, through all the penalties and turn overs the Flamingos mounted one last good set of phase work and momentum to allow the backs to work some magic and set Kyle up for his second of the day. The score did not change for the remainder of the game as again, silly penalties and far to many turn overs at the break down cost the Flamingo's the ball retention they needed to score more points.
Final Score: 24 - 10
Man of the match: Mike Bockelman
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