The University of Mary Washington men's rugby team hosted a tough, well coached Ohio State team in a D1A clash in Fredericksburg on Saturday, and came away with a hard earned 25-17 victory.. 

Around five minutes in, after a turnover caused by Nick White, Calum Emmans sent a long pass to Ben Peters who sent a beautiful kick behind the defense where David Fitzgerald chased and finished the try- RJ Berlington had the conversion to make the score 7-0.

After a few penalties and handling errors from the Mothers, Ohio State got on the board to tie it up 7-7 with about 15 minutes left in the half. Quickly following Ohio state's score, Aiden Hayward received a pass from Rhys James to score in the corner making it 12-7. RJ Berlington ended the half with a penalty goal from ~40 meters out to put the score at 15-7.

About five minutes into the second half OSU struck first making the score 15-14. The home side also played down a man for the next ten minutes after some more penalty trouble. 

At about 30 minutes remaining, OSU committed a penalty in their end and RJ Berlington added three more points with penalty kick to make the score 18-14 in favor of the home side. 

The score remained locked for a while until Ben Peters sent a pass to Charlie Platt who broke the gain line and made 20 meters before passing to Tom Howard. Tom ran another 35 meters and popped a pass up to Peters who scored the try under the posts. Jack Joyce added the conversion  to make the score 25-14. 

Shortly after the try the Mother's penalties hurt them again being forced to play down a man for another 10 minutes. OSU capitalized with a penalty kick to get the score to 25-17 but the home side defense did not let up any more points to keep that the final score.

The Mother's final contest of the fall  will be a D1A Fall Classic bowl game in South Carolina on December 7th. 


Second Side
A fast start and all mother's for the 2nd XV match vs OSU.

Jack Joyce kicked an opening kickoff that found space and bounced out in front of Dash Prather-Long who scored the opening try in just under 10 seconds. Joyce converted the try from the touch line to make it 7-0. 

The next score was a good passage of play from forwards that opened up the edge for Joyce to put a cross field kick into the hands of Callum Dodds who finished the try in the corner making it 12-0.

Shortly after that a quick turnover ball was sent wide to see Ace Cooper assist a try to Tom Howard who scored in the corner. 17-0 mothers 

Isaac Hughes had a few big carries and line breaks in this match- off of one he was caught around the 5m line and Max Mckittrick finished the job. Jack Joyce converted to make it 24-0.

The Buckeyes never quit in this one- they got a try shortly after to make the score 24-7.

The connection from Cooper to Howard came up again late in the 1H with Dodds to finish the conversion this time- 31-0.

Just before halftime, a back and forth kick came back to Joyce who ran it up and offloaded to Matthew Clinton. Clinton looked up and saw space behind the defense and put a kick through. Joyce stayed with the play and touched the bouncing ball down in the try zone. 36-7 Mother's at halftime.

In the second half it was the same story as the 1H.

Max McKittrick would have two more try's assisted by Ronan Foley. Dodd's added a conversion for one of them. 

Foley's kicking was very good- he added 3 conversions and a great 50:22 while playing fly half.

Harvey Payne, Oran Ritson and Ruaridh Woodland-Broome would also find the try line in the 2H after some unselfish play from the back line. 

Final score 69-7