Chico State Earns a Day Off

Chico State Women’s Rugby won over CSU Humboldt, 72-5, at the end of their double header on Sunday, February 25th.

Coming into the end of their double header, tired, and bruised, the Chico State Women’s Rugby Club brought home two wins on their home pitch. Ending their game against reigning national champions, UC Davis, 33-10, Chico still had to look forward to their game with CSU Humboldt.

Four minutes in, outside centre Stefani Bergerhouse scored the first try of the match, marking that the first of the three should score for Chico altogether. Fullback Darby McFall would score shortly after, scoring a conversion along with it.

This half would see McFall and Bergerhouse both scoring once more, along with lock Jennifer Brissenden, prop Andrea Velazquez, and wing Alyssa Pena. Humboldt would score once with five minutes left on the clock, bringing the score at half to 41-5

During the second half, McFall would score twice more, making a total of four tries scored. Bergerhouse would also score again, bringing in a hat trick. Inside Centre Ashley Evans would score her first try of the season this game, and would score again shortly after bringing the score to 72-5 full time.

While Evans made the last try of the match, she did so in rather precarious circumstances. Losing one boot in a ruck, she would recover the ball before launching into the try zone.

“I didn’t know what I should do, like should I keep going?” she said, laughing after the game. While the team on the sides had laughed about the lost boot once it happened, it quickly changed to a roar of support as she scored the game winning try.

After all the hard work and conditioning the team did to prepare for their double header, the team has been awarded a day off by their coaches, Mary and Alex Triantafyllou. After such a long weekend, this team really deserves it. This was the Chico girls last home match, and their seventh game won, in their undefeated streak.

Chico will prepare this week to play in Stanford on Saturday, March 3rd. While they still have one more team to face in the regular season, Chico pulled through this weekend looking towards their next match.

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