Bethel Rugby Be­gins 7s Sea­son

MISHAWAKA—The past two week­ends have been packed full of rugby for our Bethel team. On the week­end of March 23 our men’s rugby team played in an ex­hi­bi­tion 7’s tour­na­ment at Stin­son Field at Notre Dame. Some of the other teams that were in­cluded in the com­pe­ti­tion were two teams from Pur­due Uni­ver­sity and two teams from the Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame.  

Our pi­lots faired rel­a­tively well, win­ning hand­ily against three of the four teams played and ty­ing the last game. Un­for­tu­nately, a few of our play­ers sus­tained some pretty gnarly in­juries. 

The rea­son that the team is able to play four games in a day is that the game­play of 7’s only lasts for 14 min­utes in­stead of 80 min­utes. The team is made up of 7 play­ers in­stead of 15 play­ers for the fall sea­son.   

This past week­end March 30, our men’s team went back to Stin­son Field and com­peted against Lake For­est, two Notre Dame teams, West­ern Michi­gan and Bowl­ing Green State Uni­ver­sity. Un­for­tu­nately, our Pi­lots did­n’t fair as well as last week.  

Bethel Rugby only won against Lake For­est and one of the Norte Dame teams this week­end. That means that they lost the three other games against the other Notre Dame team, West­ern Michi­gan and Bowl­ing Green State  Uni­ver­sity. 

So far Bethel Rugby does­n’t have any more tour­na­ments sched­uled for the spring sea­son. Bethel 15s should pick up in full swing next fall.