Playo s:
Men’s Division 2
Gentlemen of Aspen RFC 26 – 22 Park City Haggis RFC
Aspen, in its ini ial reappearance at Rocky Mountain Rugby’s compe i ive table, have taken the Men’s Division 2 itle and will move on to the quarter nal phase of USA Rugby’s 2024-2025 playo s, the SuperRegional, in April next spring. The Gentleman, who have won four Na ional Division 1 men’s championships (19972000) as well as three Super League itles (’97, ‘01, ’02), have reemerged as the regions top men’s club a er defeat of Park City Haggis at the RMR D2 decider in Basalt on November 16.
Aspen and Haggis, from the western side of the compe i ive region, proved the topdogs in Rocky Mountain Rugby Men’s Division 2.
Meanwhile Men’s Division 3 season is un nished with clubs having a brace of matches in the spring. However like MD2, the third division’s ranking pair of clubs, Denver Highlanders and Queen City Rams, are the only XVs capable of achieving rst place in the league. The MD3 itle is Highlanders to lose as the resurgent club under the direc ion of eminent head coach and veteran threequarters, Sco Bredehoe , is currently undefeated and will close out the ’24-’25 campaign with a travel date at Northern Colorado Flamingos last RugbyDay in March and in host duty of Colorado Springs Grizzlies on April 12. Denver will need both victories and at least one of them to be a bonus point to ensure advancement to the Super Regional.
Of note: Li leton Scots nished the season super strong, with three victories, scoring nearly two hundred points in those matches on 32 trys from 17 di erent players.
Men’s Division 4, with GODS RFC (who else?) at the helm on a 5-1-0 record, and the table diners currently have two or three more league xtures (depending) yet to be played next spring (3.29, 4.5, and 4.12 - all RugbyDays).
Boulder close on the hind of the rugby divini ies with a match in hand. Boulder can draw level with a win, but they’ll s ill be behind on table points, which are the determining number at the end of the season.
Marauders are in the mathema ical mix, but require a pris ine spring and GODS and Boulder to fall at in order to obtain rst place in the league.
GODS & Boulder get after the pill last match of the season, which could be the title determinant, on April 12 at PleasantView ’ e
last ime’s solu ion:
“It’s absolutely vital to the future of the game in the way that it recognises the safety aspects but also opens the game up and is fair on the par icipa ing teams and especially the fans.” NZABS coach Sco Robinson re: 20-minute red cards
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Neither Women’s D1 nor Women’s D2 data have been updated in Rugby Xplorer, from which we gather a goodly portion of our information. - : (