UMaine Rugby Team in Playoff Action Saturday

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571

ORONO — The University of Maine’s rugby team will take on Hamilton College in a Saturday Nov. 1 playoff game on Lengyel Field.  The game is scheduled to begin at 12 noon.

The team that wins will advance to the Northeast Ruby Union’s U.S. Regional Finals at West Point next weekend.  This is the UMaine team’s third playoff game this season, following a win over Brown University and a loss to Middlebury College.

Prof. George Criner, director of UMaine’s School of Economics, coaches the team along with Mark Grimes, a 2007 UMaine graduate who is a project engineer for Barr & Barr Inc. Builders.