(Photo Courtesy Bill Croney, Northfield News)

NORTHFIELD, Vt. - The Norwich University women's rugby team raced out to a 90-0 lead by halftime en route to a 152-0 win over the University of Connecticut on Saturday in the Cadets' New England Collegiate Rugby Conference (NECRC) opener.

Freshman center Ally Day (Gorham, Maine) had a career-best day scoring five tries to lead the powerful Cadet offense to a new program record of 24 tries on the day.

Norwich (6-0, 1-0 NECRC) won its 12th straight home match and will look to stay perfect in 2012 when it travels to Northeastern next Saturday.

Quick Box Score:

Tries: Day-5, Bernheim-3, Clark-3, McElroy-3, Blankenship-2, Oor-2, Vogt-2, Weppner-2, Gunn, Inouye
Conversions: Baugus- 16/24
Drop goals: Baugus- 0/3

Line-up: 1-Ferrer, 2-Aye (Whalen), 3-Zaweski (Weeden), 4-Blankenship, 5-Weppner (Campion), 6-Inouye, 7-Bell (Gunn), 8-Champagne (McGuire), 9-Oor, 10-Baugus, 11-Clark, 12-Day, 13-McElroy (Colesworthy), 14-Vogt, 15-Bernheim (Mundell)

Half: 90-0 Norwich
Final: 152-0 Norwich

Full match report to come later.

-CADETS-