Northern Colorado Vs University of Wyoming
The Flamingos will be playing the University of Wyoming at Timnath this weekend. Grab your friends and family and join the team as we play on our home pitch.
Where: Wildwings Development Timnath (directions)
When: Saturday April 10th
Time: A-side kick off at 12:00pm with B-side to Follow
Upcoming match:
Northern Colorado Rugby at Colorado Springs
Join us as we take on the Colorado Springs Bears, at Bear Creek Park in Colorado Springs.
The A-Side match is on for 1pm in Windsor, instead of Wildwing. B-Side will immediately follow.
Some of you may recall the pitch we used to play CSU last spring. Eastman Park is located on the corner of Seventh Street and Easman Park Drive.
From Fort Collins – Travel South on I–25 to the Windsor exit, HWY 392. Head East into Windsor approximately 6 miles until you reach 7th Street. Head South on 7th Street about 1.2 miles until you come to a 4-way stop. The park is on the Southwest corner of this intersection. Park in the parking lot next to the small soccer pitches. The rugby pitch will be set up just south of the skate park.
From Loveland – The easiest way is to travel North on I-25 to the Windsor exit. Directions are the same as above.
From Greeley – Head West on HWY 34 until you reach the light right before the old Iron Mountain Auto Complex. Take a right at this intersection and follow it about 3 miles until you travel down the hill into town. You will go straight through the roundabout at the 1 mile mark. The park will be on your left right before the 4-way stop.
There is need to line the field and set up temporary posts. Please contact Flowbee if you can help in this area.
Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
Grand Junction vs Northern Colorado Flamingos
On March 20th the Northern Colorado Rugby club will travel to Grand Junction to play the Grand Junction Rugby Club. As always we encourage our our friends, family and fans to make the trip down and cheer us on.
Where: Grand Junction, CO
When: Saturday March 20th
Time: Kick off at 2:00pm
Coming off a great win last weekend against Boulder, Northern Colorado were looking to build and continue to develop against the Colorado School of Mines at home in Timnath. With the Flamingo’s the victor 24 – 10
The game kicked off with Northern Colorado scoring within 10 minutes after some great backline work from Todd Oswald and Drew Grigsby. Grigsby was the eventual Try scorer and the conversion was made
However, the excitement was soon over as Northern Colorado went on to concede several penalties over the next ten minutes in the rucks and mauls to allow CSM to get some great ball movement and eventually score under the posts. With the conversion, the scores were tied up at 7. The game continued back and forth again with the penalty count mounting in the favor of mines and the Flamingos were unable to get any steady momentum because of this and the number of turnovers due to silly passes that were never going to hand. Northern Colorado came close on two occasions to scoring again, but if not for a drop ball and a silly penalty against winger Nate Holmes for pushing a defender while chasing down a clever kick from Graepler of a Well earned tight head scrum. The Clock ticked over and so did the simple mistakes for the flamingos. The Forwards were rumbling forward well but trying to do to much was the issue of the day. Instead of doing the basics and holding onto the ball, the big pack forced to many passes and turned over the ball to much for any real momentum to taken advantage of. If it wasn’t for some quick thinking from Richard Carter, and a quick tap to dart through the scrambling defense to dot a try over, the scores would have been locked at 7 – 7 going into the half.
Half time: Northern Colorado 14 – CSM 7
The 2nd half started much the way the 1st did. The Flamingos came out fired up and through some great forward work set the backs up to allow winger Kyle Hosmer to score his 1st try of the day. But again the drop balls, turn overs and penalties mounted and we were back in the same position as the 1st half. No good ball, and no momentum to build off. CSM took an easy 3 pointer to close the scores. However, through all the penalties and turn overs the Flamingos mounted one last good set of phase work and momentum to allow the backs to work some magic and set Kyle up for his second of the day. The score did not change for the remainder of the game as again, silly penalties and far to many turn overs at the break down cost the Flamingo’s the ball retention they needed to score more points.
Final Score: 24 – 10
Man of the match: Mike Bockelman
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Northern Colorado Vs Mines
Following the recent away win over Boulder rugby, the Flamingos will be looking to put back to back wins together when the play the Colorado School of Mines at Timnath this weekend. Grab your friends and family and join the team as we play our 1st home game of the season.
Where: Wildwings Development Timnath (directions)
When: Saturday March 13th
Time: A’ side kick off at 2:00pm with B’ side to Follow
Spring was in full swing this past Saturday as the Flamingo’s travelled to Boulder to face the Boulder rugby club. Boulder got off to a great start with a converted try within five minutes. But with a shoulder injury to lock Steve Robinson following a great kick off tackle brought on replacement forward Nick O’connell. Nicks impact on the game was immediate as he scored 2 tries in ten minutes. The second of which was created by a great line break by Drew Grigsby from 30m out from his own goal line. Things were looking good for Northern Colorado until winger Nate Holmes was yellow carded for a dangerous tackle. Boulder took full advantage of this scoring twice while in ten minutes (The 1st was off great turn over ball) to put them back in the lead at 17 – 12. However when back to 15 men the Flamingo’s back line fired again and running behind a forward moving pack regained control with a try each to Sol Mascarenas and Bobby Hyatt while another went missing when Nick Flora butchered a sitter while already in the try zone. The half closed out with Northern Colorado leading 17 – 26.
After the half time break the Flamingo’s held on the pressure to score try number five with replacement forward Nick O’connell scoring his 3rd of the day after some more great attacking play by a back line that looked great with the ball in hand all day. Boulder bounced back yet again with another converted try to keep them selves in the game at 24 – 31. With O’Connell off injured and Henry Vancill on causing havoc in the rucks and mauls, the Flamingo backs again broke free and Hyatt crossed over for his second on the 58 minute mark to pull his team away even further. Another try was scored to the flamingo’s and the season was off to a great start with the final score 24 – 41.
Man of the match: Nick O’connell
Starting XV
| 1 | Tom | Forsyth |
| 2 | Mike | Donato |
| 3 | Joe | Papp |
| 4 | Chris | Jessen |
| 5 | Steve | Robinson |
| 6 | Sol | Mascarenas |
| 7 | Terje | Whitmore |
| 8 | David | Luedtke |
| 9 | Richard | Carter |
| 10 | Bobby | Hyatt |
| 11 | Kyle | Hosmer |
| 12 | Drew | Grigsby |
| 13 | Chad | Graepler |
| 14 | Nate | Holmes |
| 15 | Nick | Flora |
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Northern Colorado and Rain Tree Athletic club team up.
I would like to officially introduce you all to our new gym, Rain Tree Athletic Club. Rain Tree is located on the NW corner of Drake and Shields where the old Pulse used to be. The GM, Martin Johns, at Rain Tree has been playing and following rugby since he was 5 years old so he understands what we need as rugby players when it comes to our fitness.
Martin would like to invite the rugby team to an after practice social at his gym this upcoming Tuesday so that he can introduce himself and the gym to the entire team. So on Tuesday the 2nd we will have practice in Loveland at 6pm and have a social at Rain Tree immediately after practice at 8:15pm. There will be a bar and food available within the gym for all your eating and drinking needs.
Guys Rain Tree and Martin are working hard to support the needs of our club. There is going to be a lot more competing for positions this year so it’s time to now take it upon your self to get in shape, Rain Tree is giving us the tools.
This is a required Social Event for this team (first NoCo Rugby T-shirts to be given away at this event to all those that show)
http://www.raintreeathleticclub.com/
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Terje S Whitmore
President
Northern Colorado Rugby
(970) 988-2191