sentences:  Fairfield fended off Brooklyn, North Jersey, and Rockaway to take home the Empire GU Title; the Yankees then faced MIT, in the NERFU-EGU crossover game, to advance to the quarterfinals, despite losing long-time scrum half & play-maker, Austin Ryan, to a season-ending injury early in the game.Hosted in Pittsburgh, the Yanks put away Rocky Gorge in the quarterfinals, and then the Bremer County Bucks in the semifinals, to go on to the National Championship game.At Infinity Park in Denver, Fairfield met a much bigger, undefeated, Euless Texans side.