College Premier Division - Week 8 Scores and Stats
With eight weeks in the books, the CPD regular season is coming to an exciting finish.
In Pacific play, Cal wrapped up their regular season with a convincing victory over Cal Poly while Central Washington bounced back from a tough loss last week to St. Mary's with a decisive win over UCLA.
In the Rugby East Division, Rutgers received their first points in CPD play with a 15-13 victory over Kutztown while Army and Navy remained undefeated, thus setting the stage for the final week's Barnburner.
In the Barnburner for this past weekend, Air Force traveled to Tempe, Arizona to take on the Arizona State Sun Devils in a match that proved worthy of the Barnburner tag. Travis Hughes, Arizona State's season-long leader, scored three tries to record his second hat-trick of the season while Carson Cleveland of Air Force recorded 16 points of his own in a valiant effort that fell just short; ASU won 23-21.
CPD Statistical Leaders for Week 8:
Tries: Ben Leatigaga, Army; Don Pati, Utah; 5 tries each
Conversions: Sione Lauti, Utah; 11 conversions
Penalty Kicks: Tyler Harrison, UC Davis; Sean Peterson, Notre Dame; 2 Penalty Kicks each
Total Points: Sione Lauti, Utah; 35 points
Boxscores:
| Utah 74 | Colorado State 19 |
| Tries: Loser (2), Metcalf, Pati (5), Palamo, Lauti, Jenkins | Slinkard, Karas, Vieira |
| Conversions: Lauti (8) | Walker (2) |
| Penalty Kicks: Lauti | none |
| Bookings: none | none |
| Arizona 36 | Colorado 26 |
| Tries: Mayer, Samons, Tiberio, Arnold, Naber | Brennan, Bei (2), Lahman |
| Conversions: Getzler (4) | Kilfoyle (3) |
| Penalty Kicks: Getzler | none |
| Bookings: Tiberio, Getzler (yellows); Dvorak (Red) | none |
| Arizona State 23 | Air Force 21 |
| Tries: Sandstrom, Hughes (3) | Cleveland (2), Griffin II |
| Conversions: none | Cleveland (3) |
| Penalty Kicks: Bulkley | none |
| Bookings: Bulkley (yellow) | none |
| Utah 97 | Wyoming 0 |
| Tries: Peterson, Trowbridge, Pati (2), Hafoka, Tuineau (2), Lomu, S. Lauti (3), T. Lauti, Loser, Miller, Burd | none |
| Conversions: S. Lauti (11) | none |
| Penalty Kicks: none | none |
| Bookings: none | Brennaman, Davidson |
| CWU 55 | UCLA 29 |
| Tries: Stanfill (2), Farrell (2), Gordon, Harb (2), Nichols, Harriage | Parr, Martini, Bailey, May, Paxton |
| Conversions: Hamilton (3), Lee (2) | Pritchard (2) |
| Penalty Kicks: none | none |
| Bookings: none | none |
| Cal 79 | Cal Poly 26 |
| Tries: Anderson, Braun, Coleman, McTurk (3), Ring, Westerman, Wrobel, Lombardo, Hodson (2), Gallinger | McNeal, Gersh, Nasser, Ferri |
| Conversions: Gallinger (6), Harrington | Ferri (3) |
| Penalty Kicks: none | none |
| Bookings: none | none |
| UC Davis 20 | Claremont 5 |
| Tries: Silva, Harrison | Astor |
| Conversions: Harrison (2) | none |
| Penalty Kicks: Harrison (2) | none |
| Bookings: none | Singh (yellow) |
| Notre Dame 20 | Oklahoma 0 |
| Tries: O'Connor, Herlihy | none |
| Conversions: Peterson (2) | none |
| Penalty Kicks: Peterson (2) | none |
| Bookings: none | Immel (yellow) |
| Arkansas St. 52 | Texas A&M 17 |
| Tries: Z. Mizell, Bates, Oliver, Sullivan (2), Gragg, Swanepoel, | Gessner, Guillen |
| Conversions: Sullivan (7) | Mills (2) |
| Penalty Kicks: Sullivan | Mills |
| Bookings: none | none |
| Rutgers 15 | Kutztown 13 |
| Tries: Rubenstein, Malanka | Jessell |
| Conversions: Beal | Acker |
| Penalty Kicks: Beal | Acker (2) |
| Bookings: none | Lawrenson (yellow '26, Red '39); Tracey (yellow) |
| Navy 32 | Delaware 19 |
| Tries: Byrne, Siefring (2), Retter, Bova, Varvoutis | Kowalski, Vannoy, Tapp |
| Conversions: Arnsberger | Kowalski (2) |
| Penalty Kicks: none | none |
| Bookings: none | none |
| Dartmouth 33 | Ohio State 5 |
| Tries: Jarvis (2), Fish, Scott, Burbank | Walsh |
| Conversions: Fish (4) | none |
| Penalty Kicks: none | none |
| Bookings: none | Cochran (yellow) |
| Army 50 | Penn State 26 |
| Tries: Leatigaga (5), Holder, Moten | DeFalco (2), Datz, Saint |
| Conversions: Holder (6) | Baker (3) |
| Penalty Kicks: Holder | none |
| Bookings: Moten (yellow) | none |
CPD Week 9 Schedule (all times local to site)
Rugby East
Rutgers at Ohio State (noon)
Delaware at Penn State (1 pm)
Kutztown at Dartmouth (1 pm)
Navy at Army (5 pm)
Mid-South
Life at Oklahoma (1 pm)
LSU at Texas A&M (2 pm)
Tennessee at Notre Dame (1 pm)
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