Wake Forest showed brilliance at times but sturggled at times en route to a 2-1-1 opening day at the Atlantic Coast Rugby Sevens Championship. Wake opened the day with a mistake filled first half against Maryland and found themselves down 19-0 at halftime. Some personnel changes sparked a furious second half comeback and tries from Ryan Tacon, Tommy Kinzer, and Matt Storck allowed Wake to salavage a 19-19 tie.
Wake rested some key players for its second match against Duke and was lucky to escape with a 19-12 win. Duke played inspired rugby and are much improved from last year. Tries from Bryce Lambert, Tommy Kinzer, and Tim Bishop saw wake to the victory.
Wake's third game of the day was against the Virginia Cavaliers. After falling behind 5-0, Wake scored a brilliant 100 meter try by Ryan Tacon to go up 7-5. Virginia scored again to make it 12-7 and although Wake dominated the seond half, they were unable to capitalize on a few key opportunities and ended up with a disappointing loss.
Wake went into the final game of pool play against North Carolina, who had sailed through the day unbeaten. A loss would mean that Wake would have to play Sunday morning in a playin game. After falling behind 7-0 within the first minute, Wake turned in the performance everyone had been waiting for, running in 29 unanswered points in an almost flawless performance. Ryan Tacon, Jack Zimmerman, James Watson, Brendan Shea, and Tommy Kinzer all scored tries in the win.
Wake finishes 3rd in their pool and will play defending champs North Carolina State in the quarterfinals tomorrow at 10:50am.
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