Life University Athletics

PROVO, Utah ---- The Life University women's rugby team ran to a 59-20 road victory at BYU Saturday afternoon as Autumn LoCicero finished with a career-high four tries during the match.

LoCicero scored in the eighth minute as Nina Mason added the conversion. Four minutes later, Susan Adegoke added her first try. LoCicero picked up her second of the day in the 20th minute as Mason added another conversion to put the Running Eagles ahead 19-0.

BYU scored its first points of the match 10 minutes before the half on a penalty kick as Life U led 19-3 at the break. Mason scored a try of her own a minute into the second half and added her own conversion. Jess Keating added a try three minutes later to give the Running Eagles a 31-3 advantage. BYU managed a try with a successful conversion and another penalty to cut the score to 31-13. Brooklyn Vaifanua scored a try in the 61st minute as Keating took over kicking duties with the conversion.

BYU scored its last points of the match in the 65th minute with a try and conversion. LoCicero added two more tries in the final 13 mintues as Adegoke added her second of the match. Keating converted on all three of the conversions for the final score of 59-20.
 
Head coach Rosalind Chou shared her thoughts after the match stating, "It was our first time out to the beautiful state of Utah and it was great to have such a big crowd of BYU and Life supporters. We have quite a few student-athletes from the west, so we saw support from families coming from Utah, California, and Oregon. BYU is such a great team and we knew we'd be pushed to play a full 80 minute match with their tenacity and work rate."
 
She continued, "We got to play a variety of team to continue to build depth for our season culminating in the spring. Jess Keating was great as the field general, precise in the set piece, and great with her kicks as well. She had a tremendous, well rounded match. Another great showing with Nina Wilson as she continues to improve and settle in at scrumhalf and our speed and ability to work the ball to the edges produces some very exciting rugby. We have another tough week ahead of us as we travel to Missouri and then varsity gets a bit of a break while we focus on our NCR squad for their post-season."

The women's rugby team will return to action on Saturday, November 6, when they travel to St. Charles, Mo. to face Lindenwood University in a rematch. The JV will kickoff at 5 PM as the varsity will play after at roughly 7:30.