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Show StatesmanSports Monday, April 2, 2012 Page 9 MEN'S RUGBY UTAH STATE AND PARK CITY SCRUM during the match Saturday on the HPER Field. The Aggies lost to the Haggis 80-0. DELAYNE LOCKE photo Aggies lose big to Park City Haggis BY ERIC JUNGBLUT staff writer The Utah State men's rugby team was defeated 80-0 by the Park City Haggis Rugby Football Club on Saturday afternoon at the HPER Field. Haggis scored in the opening minutes of the game and didn't stop from there, shutting out a USU team that was significantly younger than its opponents. "Haggis has some players that used to play professional rugby," said Austin Cloward, a freshman on the USU team. "We have like 10 freshman — they are all 18 and 19. They were a bunch of 30- and 40 -yearolds on their team." "It's fun playing against old men," said Michael Paskett, Cloward's freshman teammate. "They have a 65-year-old guy on their team. Some of them played professionally." USU freshman Max Jorgensen said he felt size also played a part because many Haggis players were larger in weight and height than their USU counterparts. "They had us out-scaled — they were just the better side," Jorgensen said. "We had some good moments, but we just OFrom Page 8 Weber no match for USU From the beginning, USU's improvements began to pay off, as better passing and defensive plays kept the game under control, Linder said. The Aggies utilized their speed to gain ground against WSU. "We have some good, fast players," Lambert said. "We had some great defensive stands today. The passing was much better, as a whole we played much better as a team today we had all season." King also said she saw several positives from the game. "We were a lot more aggressive with our rucking today, and our back line winged it out," King said. "It was better support." The quickness of the Aggies kept the Wildcats off balance and diving. Though this was their best game, Lambert said the young squad has many things left to work on. "We are going to focus on end of run, controlling the ball, those kinds of things," Lambert said. "We have to be able to control the ball when going into tackles." King said controlling the ball has been something the club needs to improve on. "We need to work on our ball control," King said. "If someone gets tackled, we have a hard time cleaning that up." Senior Kylee Griffen, who has been with the team for three and a half years, said the younger players pulled it together. "Today it went really well, we are all improving. The rookies have improved a lot," Griffen said. "The support was the biggest positive, whether it was for the forwards, backline or in the rucks." Senior day was a success, but losing several seniors' experience will be difficult, Lambert said. "They worked hard, we are sad to see them go. They are a big part of the team," Lambert said. "They have worked their butts off and have worked hard all season — couldn't ask for a better showing from our seniors today." Utah State takes on the Slugs on April 28. couldn't pull through. They are just an older, more experienced team." In the several scrums between the two clubs, the larger Haggis players almost always came out with possession, and USU was often pushed back by the size and strength of its opponents. The Aggies made several long runs but failed to score on any of them. Many of these runs resulted in rucks that turned possession over to Haggis. Haggis plays its first playoff match April 14. "If we go into that game two weeks from now playing like we did today, we will win, but it will be a hard fight," a Haggis coach said to his players after the match. "We can't make the same mistakes we did today." Despite the loss, Jorgensen said he was optimistic about his team's future. "We did really good for the amount of talent that they've got," Jorgensen said. 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