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The New York Knights will meet the Connecticut Wildcats in Norwalk, CT.
This weekend marks the halfway stage of the AMNRL regular season and both teams go into the contest sporting records of 2-1, and both are gunning for the postseason.
The Cats, who are the two-time defending champions, dropped their opening round game but are now right back in the hunt for the playoffs, while the Knights opened the season by going 2-0 before running into a buzzsaw in the New Haven Warriors last week.
Look for the Wildcats to try to make use of their sets of six [tackles] by hitting it up the middle and then spinning the ball out wide, a tactic that has served them well in their last two games. By contrast, New York prefers to grind it up through its big men in the engine room.
Of the other fixtures on the card this weekend, the matchup in New Jersey between the visiting Jacksonville Axemen and the Bucks County Sharks also shapes up as a competitive game. Both teams are sitting on 1-2 records and both will be striving to get back to .500 and keep their playoff aspirations alive.
There are only two rugby union games of note scheduled for this weekend on the North American continent. The main game will see the French Barbarians take on Canada in Victoria, British Columbia, on Saturday afternoon.
The French Baabaas boast names such as ex-All Blacks Anton Oliver and Kees Meeuws, and former Argentina captain Augustin Pichot, as well as David Auradou, and Ludovic Valbon. Canada is coming off a solid come-from-behind win against the Eagles last week in Chicago and will be aiming to keep the winning streak going.
The curtain-raiser will be between the Classic Eagles and Canadian Classics.
