Wake Adds Fall Match with Clemson

A match with Division I Clemson has been added to the Wake Rugby fall schedule. The match will take place at Clemson on Friday night, Nov. 9. The following day the Wake Football team takes on the Clemson Tigers in an ACC showdown in Clemson.This match will be a huge test for Wake, as Clemson is a perrenniel powerhouse in the South Division I competition and has advanced to the USA Rugby Division I Round of 16 for the last three years.

Fall Schedule Announced

The Wake Forest Rugby team's fall schedule is as follows:

Sept. 8- A-side v. UNC-Wilmington A; B-side v. UNC-Wilmington B and Guilford A (Away- all games at Wake)
Sept. 15- A-side v. Alumni; B-side v. UNC-Greensboro A (Home)
Sept. 22- A and B sides v. East Carolina (Away)
Sept. 29- A and B sides v. Longwood (Away)
Oct. 6- A and B sides v. Georgia Tech (Home)
Oct. 13- A and B sides v. Furman (Away)
Oct. 20- Fall Break
Oct. 27-28- State Tournament (Away- either in Danville or Greensboro, location TBA)

Wake Forest Rugger Makes Select Side

Wake Forest prop Kenton Forte, a rising sophomore, was selected to the North Carolina U-19 team this past weekend. Forte, who only began playing rugby last September, worked his way into the Wake first side by mid-spring and was voted the team's most improved player by his teammates for the '06-'07 season. This makes the second consecutive year that a Wake prop has been selected to this side, as current club president Matt Gottbrecht made the team last year. The Carolina U-19s will travel to Baltimore later this month to take part in the U-19 Challenge Cup against other LAU select sides. Also participating in the Challenge Cup will be David Walsh, a Wake recruit who is currently waiting to hear if he has been let in off the admissions waiting list. Walsh, from Staples, CT, is the starting flyhalf for the Met-NY U-19 select side.