On a picture perfect fall weekend, Met New York teams Old Blue, Bayonne and North Jersey swept to victory in all three Northeast Rugby Union's mens regional finals.

NRU decided for the first time in 2009 to hold all its Mens Adult finals (in Divisions 1, 2 and 3) in the same location.  Met New York offered to host using new state of the art rugby-dedicated pitches on Randall's Island.  Teams converged from as far away as Buffalo, Monmouth NJ and Boston for the chance to go forward to USA Rugby's nationals.  In the first of Sunday's finals, Division 3's winner in Met New York North Jersey prevailed over New York State's champion Buffalo by 44 to 8.  In Division 2, Met New York's Bayonne beat New England's champion Middlesex by 28 to 14.  In a typically hotly contested Division 1 final, New York's Old Blue beat New England's Mystic by 33 to 15.

Congratulations to the New York Rugby Women who won the inaugural Women's Premier League title over the Berkley All Blues in San Francisco November 6-8th.

Rugby Magazine article by J. Finlan can be read in full after the jump or viewed by clicking here.