{"id":149420,"date":"2026-03-02T04:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149420\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:24:05","slug":"queens-to-face-bonnies-in-di-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149420\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens to face Bonnies in DI National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens fought hard against Belmont Abbey, earning them a spot in the Division I championship after their 19-15 win. The final will be held against St. Bonaventure in Houston on Saturday, December 13 at 6 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>\u200d<\/p>\n<p>The match started off with a penalty kick for Belmont Abbey\u2019s fly-half Harrison Tu\u2019isila, earning them a 3-0 lead. Ten more points came their way after a try by second row Joaquin Oddone and conversion from Tu\u2019isila, increasing their lead 10-0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6935167e5c4ea8320a258f53_Screen Shot 2025-12-06 at 11.53.12 PM.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200d<\/p>\n<p>Queens fired back with a try by center John Steel and a conversion by scrum-half Hinton Olivier, ending the half 10-7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200d<\/p>\n<p>Center Oliver Fussell captured the last points for Belmont Abbey with a try, resulting in a 15-7 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200d<\/p>\n<p>Queens finished off the match strong with two tries from second row Simon Hanks and hooker Joshua Schwartz, followed by a conversion from Olivier to win the match 19-15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/693516b96171d3ce941abdbd_Screen Shot 2025-12-06 at 11.53.32 PM Large.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Queens will play St. Bonaventure for their DI National Championship Saturday, December 13 at 6pm EST. <\/p>\n<p>\u200d<\/p>\n<p>All matches will be streamed live on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tv.ncr.rugby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tv.ncr.rugby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u200d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens fought hard against Belmont Abbey, earning them a spot in the Division I championship after their 19-15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-149420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}