Club rugby plays GVSU in last game of season

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The Central Michigan Exiles look to finish the season with a bang on Satuday.

CMU’s club rugby team plays its last game at 1 p.m. against Grand Valley State at the Intramural Fields.

“Practice has been great this week — all of the guys have been coming out even though we know it’s our last game,” said team co-captain Tim Kane. “We are working hard but also trying to have fun.”

GVSU, known for its size and physicality, rounds out a schedule for the team that has included games against rival Western Michigan, Davenport, Michigan State, Ferris State and Michigan.

The Exiles are confident going into the game this weekend and look to end the season with their best game of the year.

“We may have had our best practice all season on Tuesday,” Patrick Keady said. “We made sure we worked on tackling, the main thing we failed to do against Michigan State (two weeks ago).”

CMU had a bye last weekend, giving it enough time to forget their game against Michigan State from two weeks ago and focus on Grand Valley.

“The game wasn’t the best we’ve had,” Kane said. “Michigan State is very good team, they just came out and straight up beat us. It wasn’t good, we did not play well.”

With this being the last game of the season and no hope for a postseason, some teams would be lackluster at practice and not really care. Not the Exiles, though, Keady said.

“We worked on fundamentals and made sure are team was ready for our last game of the year against Grand Valley,” Keady said. “They are a hard team but we know we can come up and beat them.”

“They’ve kind of been laying low on the radar this year for everyone,” he added, “and no matter the record they always play hard.”