Aspetuck Valley Rugby Club Wins Connecticut Division 2 State Championship

Local High School Rugby club, Aspectuck Valley Rugby, topped off an undefeated regular league season record with a commanding 69-7 win over West Hartford in the Division 2 State Championship game played Saturday May 27th at Fairfield High School.

Aspetuck broke out with dominant play early in the first half. Aspetuck scored quickly on several long downfield runs made by Jacob Robb (Wilton) and Patrick Stack (Weston). West Hartford put up a solid effort to push back in the first half, but the speed of Aspetuck's Backs and their Forwards' dominance at the breakdown proved too much with additional tries in the first half from Jack Preston (Redding), Luke Davies (Weston), Josh Lisi (Stratford), Alex Stillman (Redding) and again by Jacob Robb. Jack Preston kicked the majority of the conversions to make it 50-0 by the half.

In the second half Aspetuck's dominance continued with tries coming from Gunnar Desantis (Redding) Ray Weiner (Shelton) and Armundo Martinez (Shelton). West Hartford's threatened the line several times and was ultimately successful in scoring in the dying minutes to make the final score 69-7.

Aspetuck's High School team had an excellent season including a tour to Washington DC for the Cherry Blossom tournament where they took home the plate championship as well as a number of in-season exhibition games against division one teams with their only loss coming at the hands of highly ranked Fairfield. With a young team returning next year Aspetuck Rugby looks forward to big things.

Aspetuck Valley Rugby Club is a team made up of players from a number of schools without formal High School programs and competes in the Connecticut High School Rugby Division of USA Rugby, fielding teams at both the Varsity and JV/Developmental levels (in addition to a complete youth program). The season starts mid-March and ends early June, usually an 8-10 week spring season. Pre-season consists of January and February. In the Summer Aspetuck fields a team to play “Sevens” Rugby in the regional tournaments for the High School players.

Aspetuck Valley Rugby Club home field is located in West Redding and pulls players from regional towns - Weston, Wilton, Ridgefield, Newtown, Redding, Shelton, Easton and others. Aspetuck teams include U10, U12, U14, and High School level teams. More info can be found at www.aspetuckrugby.org