Partly Cloudy (What Again?) Part One

Manyuru Perfects The Line Out Tip Drill

MCRC Tackles Trinity
In an area of Vermont once known for its industrial production the men of the MCRC kicked-off this years New England RFU Quarterfinal match play October 22 by stifling a determined Trinity Bantam team in a 26-3 victory on yet another grey New England Saturday.


Cox Has No Daylight

After finding the field in the outskirts of West Rutland, "down the gravel road, past the Marble processing plant, road takes off on the left... ignore the NO TRESPASSING signs... You can't miss it," and realizing this could be a long afternoon, I went back into West Rutland in search of chow. After bypassing a couple of taverns, and a deli, I wandered into a rather plain looking place with a colorfully painted wall mural. Good Choice.


Losambe '07 Has More Fun Harasimowicz Photo

With a Roast Turkey, Stuffing, and Cranberry Sauce Melt on rye to go, I went back to the pitch. ( I had asked about the Tuna Melt. Friendly waitress shook her head as if to say... "No. That's not what you want. You want the RTS&CSM," -abbreviated to shorten this description.) I digress.


Williams '06 Takes Advantage - Volz Observes
Harasimowicz Photo

The location of this years NERFU quarterfinal was a photographers dream: a backdrop friendly pitch carved out of the graceful reeds and grasses of a mature wetland. Run by the Rutland Rugby Football Club for their U-19 Boys and U-19 Girls teams this pitch served the event very serviceably.


Junior Tommy Heitkamp Frustrates Sleeve Tackler
Harasimowicz photo


Etter Reacts to Cox Dazzling Try

With the rains holding off through the MCRC women's match (a loss to UVM - I saw only Midd scoring) and men's A match with Trinity and B match with the Dartmouth Freshman team fans were treated to hard fought contests that challenged the Midd squads.


Wilson Working the Body English Harasimowicz Photo

In the Trinity match some very impressive running from the Midd backs electrified the crowd. Winger Spencer Cox, one of the many bright lights in the future of Midd Rugby, scored early and elicited howls of delight as he ran a series of dazzling cuts around the Bantam defenders for the first try of the match. With the kicking tee momentarily AWOL Craig Wilson pulled another trick from his bag and placed a dead-on drop kick for the two-point conversion. Haven't seen that yet this season that I can recall -things looked bright indeed.


Losambe '07 Drawing the Usual Crowd

To be continued...