The Warsaw Girls Rugby team is now champions of two states. On Sunday November 1st the Warsaw Lady Tigers traveled to Grand Haven Michigan to play against Traverse City for the Michigan girls rugby state championship and won 14-12. Warsaw made a strong start pushing Traverse City back into their half. After some back and forth play Warsaw was able to maintain possession near to the Traverse try line. This enabled Tight head prop Sherlin Zaca to crash over the try line. The tray was converted by Luciana Viera giving the Tigers a 7 point lead. Just before half time Traverse City scored a try and conversion leveling the score to 7 each at the half. The second half started with Traverse city pushing Warsaw back but some good defense stopped them scoring, After some continued pressure the Traverse city took the lead scoring an unconverted try to leady 12 to 7. With only less than 30 seconds left to play the Tigers got a penalty and kicked to the sideline at the resulting line out the Tigers lost the ball. However, the Traverse team continued to play and infringed at the ruck giving the Tigers another penalty. Again the Tigers kicked to touch but regained the ball at the line out. They moved the ball wide to the left and Ruby Orozco came within a few feet of scoring. At the resulting ruck Luciana Viera picked the ball from the base of the ruck and dived over to score the tying try. She then calmly kicked the conversion to end the game with Warsaw winning 14 to 12. photos thanks to Angela Price