Beautiful Day 1 at the 2007 Ivies!

For a brief moment Saturday it looked like it was going to be a Dartmouth v. Harvard showdown in both the men's and the women's final of the 2007 Royall Lyme Ivy League Championships.

On the men's side it will be Harvard and Dartmouth --- AGAIN --- as Dartmouth makes their third trip to the finals in as many years. For the women though, the surprise of the day has to be 5th seed Brown. Brown out talented a well coached Princeton side 14-7 to move on to a second round game where they completely annihilated last year's Ivy Champion Radcliffe (Harvard) 42-nil.

Despite the nasty forecast, it turned out to be a beautiful day for rugby at the 39th annual 2007 Royall Lyme Ivy League Championships at Glen Farm in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

This year's event is being hosted by Brown University, title sponsored by Royall Lyme: www.royallrugby.com, Rugby Imports: www.rugbyimports.com and McGrath Clambakes: www.riclambake.com.