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SCRUMMY: Captain Mike Petri, center, and his team won their fi rst game last week on their new home
turf at Coney Island’s MCU Park. Keith Killeen
Rugby by the sea
Major League Rugby debuts at MCU Park
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
It’s a whole new ballgame
for the stadium by the sea.
New York State’s fi rst
Major League Rugby team
recently kicked off its fi rst
full season at Coney Island’s
MCU Park, where
the athletes will face off
against their rivals in
games through the end of
May. Rugby United New
York’s new home in Sodom
by the Sea will allow its
players to introduce their
sport to a new fan base
in Brooklyn and beyond,
according to the team
captain.
“We’re really excited to
bring our sport to Brooklyn,
and share it with people
in Coney Island and
everyone throughout New
York City, from longtime
rugby fans to those who are
new to it,” said Mike Petri,
who lives in Bay Ridge.
Petri led his squad to its
fi rst home-game victory
on March 15, defeating the
visiting Toronto Arrows
24-21. But the team’s season
offi cially started in
January, and the ballers
already won four of the fi ve
games they played across
the country since then.
In the coming months,
Rugby United New York
will battle teams from
Texas, California, Utah,
Washington, and Louisiana
in 10 more games,
seven of which will take
place at MCU Park — a
venue Petri said he and his
teammates look forward
to returning to following
their extensive travels.
“It’s been a tough entry
into Major League Rugby
— we’ve been spending all
of our time away, so we’re
really looking forward to
being home,” he said.
Rugby United New York
owner James Kennedy established
the team last
spring, when the New York
club played a few games in
the distant Bronx as part
of a so-called exhibition
season with nine other
squads, which allowed
players to practice before
they began competing in
offi cial matches.
Rugby United New
York’s 35-member squad
includes full-time professionals
and other semi-professional
players including
Petri, who moonlights
as a teacher and basketball
and baseball coach at Bay
Ridge Prep.
The players practice between
two and four days a
week on Randall’s Island,
where they alternate between
weight-lifting, speed
and endurance sessions,
mental training, and video
analysis of their footwork,
according to Petri. The
training sessions emphasize
a diverse set of skills
because the contact sport
— which consists of two,
15-player teams fi ghting
for control of an oval ball
that they can kick or pass
to their teammates as they
try to score points — is so
unique, he said.
“It’s a cross between a
lot of sports. Unlike football
it’s very much a transition
sport — similar to
soccer, basketball, and
hockey — in the way that
everybody plays offense
and defense,” he said. “It’s
a fast, physical game.”
The local athletes hope
to build upon their early
victories in order to claim
the league’s title this
summer.
“We know in our minds
that we have a very legitimate
chance to be in the
mix at the end,” he said.
“We defi nitely have some
real talent on this squad.”
The New York rugby
team’s fi rst game at MCU
Park came roughly a week
after leaders of the New
York Cosmos soccer team
announced the squad would
stop playing home games at
the seaside stadium, and instead
take the fi eld at venue
in Long Island — a decision
that came a year after Cosmos
executives canceled its
2018 season , when a court
ruled their league could be
forced to play in a lower division.
Catch a Rugby United
New York game at MCU
Park (Surf Ave. at W. 19th
Street in Coney Island,
www.rugbyunitedny.com).
Through May 26. $20–$45.
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