With the creation of the CPL (College Premier League), USA Rugby designated several local unions as “automatic qualifier” regions. As MetNY was selected to be such a union, the winner of the Met NY’ division 1 will have an automatic bid to compete in the college rugby national championship tournament. In years past, the Met NY’s divisional winner had to go through the NY State Rugby union and the ever dangerous New England Rugby Union before making it into the college championship tournament. With such a great opportunity on the line, the Met NY D1 playoff race could not be more exciting.

With the creation of the CPL (College Premier League), USA Rugby designated several local unions as “automatic qualifier” regions. As MetNY was selected to be such a union, the winner of the Met NY’ division 1 will have an automatic bid to compete in the college rugby national championship tournament. In years past, the Met NY’s divisional winner had to go through the NY State Rugby union and the ever dangerous New England Rugby Union before making it into the college championship tournament. With such a great opportunity on the line, the Met NY D1 playoff race could not be more exciting.

Army is the current divisional leader, but as in past years they will not compete in the playoffs as they will be part of the CPL. This leaves a tight race between 3 of the four remaining teams. Southern Connecticut is the proverbial favorite, as their sole loss was in a hard fought match against the Army side. Next in the standings is the Stony Brook team. With close matches in all but their 1^st game, they look to put pressure on the competition. The Fordham side is right in the midst of it all. As the defending D1 champs, Fordham has certainly shown that they know how to win in the big spot. At the bottom of the division, Kings Point looks to play spoiler. The team’s standings and scores demonstrate the team is obviously going through some difficult times.

The 1^st round of the tournament kicks off with Fordham traveling to Stony Brook and Southern Connecticut making the trip to Kings Point. When these teams met in the regular season, Fordham out hustled Stony Brook to a 14 to 11 victory and Southern Connecticut trounced Kings Point 70 to 7.

The last round of the tournament will have Fordham hosting Kings Point and Stony Brook traveling to Southern Connecticut. Fordham was able to easily handle Kings Point in the regular season and will look to repeat the same in the last leg of the tournament With what very well turn out to be a win and in match, Southern Connecticut will host Stony Brook in the final match of the tournament. The two teams have a history of close and important matches and in their last encounter, Southern Connecticut held off Stony Brook by a point and won 20 to 19.

With all teams getting a 1^st hand look at the style and physicality of their opposition, this years round robin playoffs look to be as exciting as ever! So go out and root for your local college team, as they put their bodies on the line and compete for a spot in the 2011 college championship tournament.

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