New London Captures Impressive Victory over MIT
Waterford, CT- The New London County Rugby Football Club bolted out to an early lead and never looked back as they defeated MIT, 47-12, on a classic October day.
New London quickly showed MIT they were here to play as they slammed through MIT’s defense on a series of heart-pounding ferocious rugby play. New London established field position after their Fly-Half, Tim Johnson, demonstrated pristine kicking accuracy off a penalty, giving New London unbelievable field position for a line-out. When the line-out was received in New London’s favor, New London and their powerful backline quickly thrashed through MIT. New London’s Inside Center, Eric Booth, saw an opening, and quickly darted through the try zone giving New London’s first score. With the converted kick by Johnson, New London was on top by a score of 7-0.
MIT never backed down, but after multiple opportunities hinting towards New London’s side of the field, MIT couldn’t break into any sort of scoring rhythm. With every dropped pass, or missed timed ball by MIT, New London sent kick after kick deep into MIT’s zone, giving New London excellent field control much throughout the first half. New London capitalized on their field control, and scored multiple tries, by Booth, Ken Laverty, Nick Anderson, and Louis Zubek. At the end of the first half, New London was up 40-0.
New London entered the second half with the same expectations of the first, but couldn’t match MIT’s revamped attitude. MIT scored twice in the second half on the notion that New London wasn’t spreading their defense wide as they did in the first.
“We ended up watching the ball,” said New London’s Full Back, Richard Dickinson. “We have to watch where they position their players when we’re on defense. MIT is smart team, and read our overload, and we got burned.”
Other than some slight defensive errors, New London showed great promise in this victory, and hope to obtain the same explosive scoring atmosphere as they face the North Shore Rugby Football club, who remain undefeated, next week in Lynn, Massachusetts.