WU — Christian Gatica try (conversion missed), 0-5 BAC — Louis Fahey try (Tu’ilsila conversion good), 7-5 WU — Jonty Kimber try (Elliott McKinney conversion), 7-12 BAC — Tu’ilsila penalty conversion good, 10-12 BAC — Jean Teson try (Tu’ilsila conversion good), 17-12 Second Half BAC — Ka’Ron Young try (Tu’ilsila conversion good), 24-12 WU — Gatica try (McKinney conversion), 24-19 BAC — Tu’ilsila penalty conversion good, 27-19<\/p>\n
Here we are eating crow after saying that Belmont Abbey would definitely lose to Walsh over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Of course, when you blurt out something like that, you open yourself up to being very, very wrong, and that’s exactly what happened as Belmont Abbey beat Walsh 27-19.<\/p>\n
The result significantly slowed Walsh’s ARC conference championship aspirations, and put Belmont Abbey …<\/p>\n
For Abbey Head Coach Genaro Fessia, this was a key step in the team’s development.<\/p>\n
“We are a team that seeks to play intelligent rugby that moves the ball and creates options, not just physicality and seeking contact,” said Fessia. But that’s not something that comes quickly and easily at this level\u2014you need games and experience together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s a process that takes time,” added the coach, “but we’re convinced the end result is better.”<\/p>\n
It’s easy to forget that this is only Belmont Abbey’s second year in NCR’s D1. They are still a young team.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Again, remember, this is our second year in D1, and I believe that growth is evident, but it’s not complete yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WU — Christian Gatica try (conversion missed), 0-5 BAC — Louis Fahey try (Tu’ilsila conversion good), 7-5 WU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-246632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}