PacCoast Playoffs

This past weekend, Stanford entered into their first post-season play, with a match versus BYU. With the final score being 33-12, Stanford had a number of lovely plays, with the majority of the lovely plays being scored upon. That being said, it is likely that Stanford would have done better to play more of the game in BYU's half. One highlight of the game, not to be overlooked, were Stanford's scrums! The scrummies really got their sink on as they pushed back BYU's pack. Even if not stealing the ball a large amount, the push was enough to put BUY's backs on the back track before coming forward. Other players of notable play were Ono Nseyo, who caught a number of balls, and Jessica Watkins, who skidaddled on towards the goal line for a handful of touch downs.

The Saturday day win brought a Sunday game of fire versus Chico State. As always, the Cougars brought a lot of forward movement, with a penetrating pack flocking to the skirts of breakdowns for A-B punches. Despite this, however, Chico through down only one try in the first half, with a couple of potential trys being held up in the try zone. The first half score was 12-7. Then, after being on the receiving end of finger-pointed motivation, Stanford got it together and started making plays. Opposing line-outs were sacked, the scrums continued to be contested with vigour and vim, and the backs finally began to settle down and administer play-calling techniques to the game. With some outrageous runs from Ono Nseyo and Jessica Watkins, as well as a bit of forward glory from Janae Grijalva and Victoria Whittaker, tries populated the scene, giving much excitement to members of USA Rugby. The final game score was 52-5. With this win, Stanford's will go into the Round of 16 competition with the #1 seed and will face off against UCLA. The game will be taking place in Miami on April 18th.