Depleted, Youthful Wake Team Bests Longwood 23-19

With an incredible 11 regular first side players unavailable due to injury, the LSAT, and weddings, Wake Forest travelled to Farmville, VA to take on Longwood University, who last year finished #3 in the country in Division III. Starting a lineup that contained 3 freshmen, 10 sophomores, and a lone junior and senior, Wake got out to a slow start, but managed to go into the half trailing only 12-10, with sophomore fullback Perry Salvagne scoring a try and senior captain and flyhalf Tyler Eure scoring a conversion and penalty. Wake's cohesion was much better in the second half and they dominated possession and territory with Eure adding another penalty and junior flanker Timo Kawira scoring two tries. Longwood scored at the death to make the final score 23-19.

The Wake second side defeated Longwood 8-3. Wake's lone try was scored by freshman hooker Matt Storck, while Sophomore Perry Salvagne, running double duty as second side flyhalf, hit a penalty goal.

Next weekend Wake takes on 2007 South Division II Quarterfinalist Georgia Tech in Winston-Salem.