PRC NSCRO Final 4 Details

The Potomac Rugby Conference NSCRO semifinals and final rounds are on Saturday-Sunday, November 9-10 hosted by Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD.  All games are on Echo Field in front of the Seminary.

 

 

KICK-OFF TIMES:

Saturday, November 9

Semifinal Game 1 at 1:00PM: Mount St. Marys (#1) vs. American (#4)

Semifinal Game 2 at 3:00PM: Catholic (#2) vs. Loyola (#3)

 

Sunday, November 10

Final at 1:00PM

No consolation game

 

Winner will advance to Regionals in march 2014

 

 

DIRECTIONS:

16300 Old Emmitsburg Rd Emmitsburg, MD 21727

VENUE: Echo Field in front of the Seminary.

 

1. Take 495 North to I-270 North towards Frederick

2, At Frederick city, stay to the left lane and it becomes US-15 North.

3. Stay on US-15 North for 20 miles until you see the Mt. St. Marys campus on the left side.

4. Turn left into main campus and take a quick left on John Walsh Way.

5. Drive past the Knott Auditorium towards Memorial Gym.

 

PARKING: Parking is available in lot #10 around Memorial Gym.  Game is on Echo Field in front of the Seminary

 

 

CHECK-IN:  Players will check in about an hour before kick-off by verifying the USA Rugby CIPP Roster and their college picture ID.

 

 

ALCOHOL POLICY: 

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE NOT ALLOWED by ANYONE at the venue.  Teams are responsible for their players, coaches and their fans.

 

 

CONDUCT:

Collegiate rugby players represent their universities and are ambassadors of United States collegiate rugby. Collegiate rugby players, their team and supporters should not tolerate obnoxious, impolite or antisocial behavior of any sort which could adversely affect the image of collegiate rugby as a serious and disciplined athletic endeavor.  Teams are responsible for the behavior of their players, coaches and their fans.

   

RED/YELLOW CARDS:

The issuing of any red or yellow cards will be carried into the following day or longer.  That is, if you are issued a red card and removed from the match, you are suspended for the finals match and additional penalties provided by the Disciplinary Committee.

 

 

OVERTIME PROCEDURES:

- If the match is tied in regulation, then there will be a 5 minute water break followed by overtime.

- There will be a coin toss during the water break to determine side and kickoff. Teams will alternate side and kickoff at the start of every overtime period.

- Overtime begins with TWO 10-minute periods. BOTH 10 minute periods will be fully played, regardless of scoring.

- There is a 2-minute water break at the end of every overtime period.

- If one team is ahead at the end of the second overtime period, then they are the winner of the match.

- If the match is still tied after two overtime periods, the match will proceed to sudden death.

- Sudden death consists of 10-minute periods with a change of sides and kickoffs after each period. Note: the teams merely switch sides and kickoff to the begin the 3rd OT period which begins sudden death; there is no additional coin toss.

- The first team to score in sudden death is the winner of the match.

- There will be a 5 minute water break after each 40 minutes (4 periods) of overtime play.

PRC Week 8 Results

NSCRO
Loyola 29, American 22

PRC NSCRO Regular Season Standings:

PRC D2 Final 4 Results

Saturday, November 2
Semis 1: Towson 36, Georgetown 5
Semis 2: Salisbury 76, Johns Hopkins 10

Sunday, November 3
Finals: Salisbury 32, Towson 19

Salisbury will automatically qualify for the National Sweet 16 on November 23rd.

PRC Division II Final 4 Details

The Potomac Rugby Conference semifinals and final rounds are on Saturday-Sunday, November 2-3 hosted by Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD.  All games are on Echo Field in front of the Seminary.

 

 

KICK-OFF TIMES:

Saturday, November 2

Semifinal Game 1 at 2:00PM: Towson (#2) vs. Georgetown (#3)

Semifinal Game 2 at 4:00PM: Salisbury (#1) vs. Johns Hopkins (#4)

 

Sunday, November 3

Final at 1:00PM

No consolation game

 

Winner will advance to Nationals

 

 

DIRECTIONS:

16300 Old Emmitsburg Rd Emmitsburg, MD 21727

Echo Field in front of the Seminary; parking is available in lot #10 around Memorial Gym.

 

1. Take 495 North to I-270 North towards Frederick

2, At Frederick city, stay to the left lane and it becomes US-15 North.

3. Stay on US-15 North for 20 miles until you see the Mt. St. Marys

campus on the left side.

4. Turn left into main campus and take a quick left on John Walsh Way.

5. Drive past the Knott Auditorium towards Memorial Gym.

 

 

PARKING: Parking is available in lot #10 around Memorial Gym.  Game is on Echo Field in front of the Seminary

 

 

CHECK-IN:  Players will check in about an hour before kick-off by verifying the USA Rugby CIPP Roster and their college picture ID.

 

 

CONDUCT:

Collegiate rugby players represent their universities and are ambassadors of United States collegiate rugby. Collegiate rugby players, their team and supporters should not tolerate obnoxious, impolite or antisocial behavior of any sort which could adversely affect the image of collegiate rugby as a serious and disciplined athletic endeavor.  Teams are responsible for the behavior of their players, coaches and their fans.

 

 

ALCOHOL POLICY: 

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE NOT ALLOWED by ANYONE at the venue.  Teams are responsible for their players, coaches and their fans.

  

RED/YELLOW CARDS:

The issuing of any red or yellow cards will be carried into the following day or longer.  That is, if you are issued a red card and removed from the match, you are suspended for the finals match and additional penalties provided by the Disciplinary Committee.

 

 

OVERTIME PROCEDURES:

- If the match is tied in regulation, then there will be a 5 minute water break followed by overtime.

- There will be a coin toss during the water break to determine side and kickoff. Teams will alternate side and kickoff at the start of every overtime period.

- Overtime begins with TWO 10-minute periods. BOTH 10 minute periods will be fully played, regardless of scoring.

- There is a 2-minute water break at the end of every overtime period.

- If one team is ahead at the end of the second overtime period, then they are the winner of the match.

- If the match is still tied after two overtime periods, the match will proceed to sudden death.

- Sudden death consists of 10-minute periods with a change of sides and kickoffs after each period. Note: the teams merely switch sides and kickoff to the begin the 3rd OT period which begins sudden death; there is no additional coin toss.

- The first team to score in sudden death is the winner of the match.

- There will be a 5 minute water break after each 40 minutes (4 periods) of overtime play.

PRC Week 7 Results

NSCRO
George Mason 17, Georgetown 15
George Washington 48, UMBC 17
Salisbury 26, Towson 7
BYE: Johns Hopkins

NSCRO
Mt. St. Marys 44, Frostburg 28
American 46, Maryland C 17
Catholic36, St. Mary's 22
Loyola, Navy

PRC Week 6 Results

Division 2
Georgetown 27, UMBC 14
George Washington 39, Johns Hopkins 0
Salisbury 64, George Mason 0
BYE: Towson

NSCRO
American 17, St. Mary's 0
Mt. St. Mary's 41, Catholic 17
Navy C v Maryland C
BYE: Loyola,

PRC Week 5 Results

Division 2
Salisbury 47, Georgetown 15
Johns Hopkins 25, George Mason 15
Towson 44, UMBC 14
BYE: George Washington

NSCRO
Frostburg 17, Maryland C 12
Navy C 30, St. Mary's 12
Catholic 22, Loyola 14
BYE: American, Mt. St. Mary's

PRC Week 4 Results

Division 2
Georgetown 17, George Washington 17
Salisbury 95, Johns Hopkins 12
Towson 20, George Mason 0 (forfeit)
BYE: UMBC

NSCRO
Mt. St. Mary's 51, Maryland C 10
Loyola 23, Frostburg 19
American v Navy (postponed)
BYE: Catholic, St. Mary's

PRC Week 3 Results

Division 2
Towson79, Johns Hopkins 3
UMBC 38, George Mason 22
Salisbury 20, George Washington 0 (forfeit)
BYE: Georgetown

NSCRO
Frostburg 17, St. Marys 3
Maryland C 20, Loyola 19
Catholic 17, American 10
Navy C 48, Mount St. Marys 26

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PRC Week 2 Results

Division 2:
Georgetown 24, Towson 22
George Washington 24, George Mason 13
Johns Hopkins 17, UMBC 10
BYE: Salisbury

NSCRO: 
American 14, Frostburg 0
Mount St. Mary's 43, Loyola 20
Navy C 74, Catholic 0
St. Mary's 55, Maryland C 5


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PRC Week 1 Results

Division 2

Georgetown 40, Johns Hopkins 19

Towson 41, George Washington 10

Salisbury 79, UMBC 14

BYE: George Mason

NSCRO

St. Mary's 18, Loyola 17 

Mt. St. Mary's 70, American 12

Navy C 17, Frostburg 0

Catholic 61, Maryland C 7

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CIPP, P2P, PRU Funds, Listserv, Referees

College Men,

 

Reminder to complete these administrative tasks before your first game this weekend, if you have not done so.  All information is important especially submitting the online form by the end of September to receive PRU reimbursement.

 

Good luck!

 

JP Perez

 

 

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USA Rugby CIPP Registration

 

Here's the CIPP status as of today.  Your club and players must be CIPP registered prior to your league game this weekend.  This is a liability and non-CIPP players are not eligible to play.

 

Complete CIPP at https://www.allplayers.com/g/usarugby_2013/register

 

Catholic, 7 members

Frostburg, no members

George Washington, 2 members

Johns Hopkins, 6 members

Loyola, 4 members

Mt. St. Mary's, no Club CIPP, no members

St. Mary's, 1 member

 

 

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Permission to Play Forms

 

Complete the P2P Forms so I can have your updated contacts -

http://pru.org/myadmin/customdata/form_display.asp?FormDefnID=5078

 

 

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PRU Funds Status by PRU President

 

The PRU has approximately $81,326 in our account for all clubs (Seniors, Colleges). Our current outstanding fees include our disbursement to the CGU for the new Unions seed money and a few other bills we expect to see shortly (web hosting and other miscellaneous fees). After it’s all said and done I believe there will be roughly $60,000 remaining in our account. When we’ve paid our last bill we will be hiring a local accounting firm to perform a final audit of the funds, compute the allocation to each club and to disburse those funds. Our singular goal is transparency with every cent accounted

for.

 

In terms of expectations, do not expect any disbursement until the end of October. While it may be earlier than that, please don’t plan any expenditures until you actually see the money.

 

As no clubs provided the PRU any suggestions or computations as to how to disburse the moneys, the guidelines provided at our last AGM will be used. Those guidelines were:

 

• Identify the join date of all dues paying PRU clubs.

 

• All clubs who have been with the PRU 10 years or longer will receive a full share disbursement.

 

• All clubs less than 10 years will receive a prorated share.

 

• All clubs who have paid less than full shares (colleges, etc…) will also receive a prorated shared.

 

In order to keep track of this information, all clubs are asked to go to the google form found at the following link and to submit the requested information. This is just the preliminary information we

need and we may need additional information in the future:

 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VdWBOaHOzuu5C8-pK4bnu_CnOvTPNk1y1h4L2XHsrl0/viewform

 

Any club that does not submit this information by September 30, 2013 will be assumed to be waiving any request for funds. Sorry, but if we don’t know who to send money to, we simply can’t. Sometime in early October we will send the final account balance, the yearend account reconciliation and the proposed disbursement amounts to the contact person identified in the form above.

 

Questions directed to PRU President - David Hatwell <dhatwell@consultaegis.com>

 

 

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Communication

 

Ensure your club officers join the PRC maillist. This will be our primary source for communication.  Join by sending an email to potomacrugby+subscribe@googlegroups.com

 

As the PRU website will go away soon, the following will be maintained with PRC updates:

 

http://potomacrugby.blogspot.com/

https://www.facebook.com/potomacrugbyconference

https://twitter.com/potomacrugby

 

 

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Referee Requests

 

Home teams are responsible for requesting referee at www.arbitersports.com.  Instructions for entering games can be found at: https://prr.arbitersports.com/front/107639/Site

 

 

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Referee Outstanding Dues

 

Status as of Sep 9: Frostburg, Montgomery.

 

Contact the Potomac Referees Treasurer for the status of your payment.

Riaan van Greuning - riaanvg@gmail.com

 

Rugby Referee Requests, time to enter for fall season

Dear Club Representatives,

It's time to enter requests for rugby referees for the upcoming fall season!

There has been lots of reorganization of the league structures.  We in the Potomac Rugby Referees are largely ignoring that.  If you are in our geographic region (DC, MD, NoVA, and a smidgen of PA), we can supply you with officials.  N.B.: League matches are NOT entered into the system by league administrators (except in some unusual pre-arranged circumstances); clubs must enter their own home matches.

If you have not previously logged onto our system at www.arbitersports.com , your initial PW is your family name all lower case.  You'll need to promptly change it.  Your user name is the email address receiving this message.  Instructions for entering games can be found at: https://prr.arbitersports.com/front/107639/Site .  See the Club Corner, upper left.  If you do get stuck, I can provide telephone assistance most days; mid-morning is best.  However, please actually read the instructions first.  For anything unusual about a match, including an opponent not in our system, add a Note for the match after saving it.

Please remember to treat emails to me as business correspondence.  If you don't sign off with your name and club, don't expect much action.  As much as possible when sending messages to me, include enough information so that I stand a chance of solving your problem with one reply.

When clubs change officers, there is a lot of administrative overhead for us.  We would appreciate if clubs would change their emails to one that stays with the club and just the name of the officers change.  Some clubs have already done this.  Once you create a new email address, you can change this in your profile.  If you have trouble, I can assist.

Let's have a great season!

Tigg

Mark Handel, Allocations
Potomac Rugby Referees
tigg@erols.com
202-363-0349 (mid-morning best)

Potomac Rugby Conference Fall Schedule 2013

College Men,

 

Attached is the Potomac Rugby Conference (PRC) regular season schedule.   The PRU bylaws and competition guidelines still apply though we're in the process of updating our conference bylaws and competition guidelines.  The changes are the conference divisions, playoff qualification, medical trainer requirement, and club dues.  We will also enforce the forfeits regulations for the fall season as well.

 

1. Conference Divisions: The PRC is divided into 2 divisions, which are Division 2 and NSCRO.  The seven teams in Division 2 are George Mason, George Washington, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Salisbury, Towson, UMBC.  The D2 champion will automatically qualify for the national playoffs. The six teams competing in NSCRO are American, Catholic, Frostburg, Loyola, Mt. St. Marys, St. Marys.  Maryland C and Navy C will also compete against the NSCRO teams but will not compete in the playoffs.   
2. Scoring System:  The PRC will use the Super 14 point system already in place. The standings table will be updated weekly to determine the rankings. The change in the tie-breaker is head to head competition instead of point differential.
3.  Playoffs:  The NSCRO division playoffs will consist of the top four teams in the regular season to be held on the weekend of November 9-10.  The winner will advance to the regional competition against the winner of the Cardinals conference in March 2014.  Due to the D2 National Championship moving to the fall season, the Division 2 playoffs will consist of the top four teams in the regular season.   We will not have the quarterfinal round in order to give the winner an extra week to prepare.  We are looking for venues to host the NSCRO or the Division 2 Final 4.
4. Eligibility: Teams must follow the USA Rugby Eligibilty guidelines.  Players must be CIPP registered prior to their first match. Any teams or players not CIPP will forfeit their match.  The coaches must also meet CIPP and course requirements to be fully compliant. Reference http://usarugby.org/college-eligibility 
5. Forfeits:  Teams must notify their opponent if they do not have at least 15 players available.  Not showing up to a game will be an automatic forfeit and the team will be barred from the playoffs.  Disciplinary and/or administrative penalties will apply to the forfeiting team, which may include compensation due to the non-forfeiting team. Forfeits will be recorded as 20-0 win by the non-offending team, and recorded as 4 tries scored and 1 bonus point, per the Super 14 point system.  
6. Promotion and Relegation:  A challenge match is necessary for promotion and relegation.  The NSCRO team may challenge the lowest ranked team from Division 2.  There may be an exception to the relegation when the Division 2 team does not meet the NSCRO eligibility.
7. Medical Trainer:  The host team must have a medical trainer present for all of your home games.
8. Club Dues:  The proposed amount for club dues is $300 for each club, which is more than half the PRU charged in the past.  The PRU and VRU will combine in August 2013 to form the new Capital Geographical Union, and the PRU will determine what to do with the excess funds by the end of the summer.  It was suggested the PRU may send the excess funds back to the clubs.
9.  Communication:

-   Host team must communicate with their opponent no later than a week prior to the match.   Communicate sooner if there are changes to the standard game day and kick-off time, or you will not have a B Side available.   Standard games are on Saturdays at 1:00pm.
-  Host teams are responsible for submitting their referee requests to the Potomac Referees Society.

 

JP Perez

Commissioner

Potomac Rugby Conference

DOWNLOAD: PRC Fall Schedule 2013