The A team was making its first playoff appearance for 3 years and with the practice sessions having gone well the 2 weeks prior we took the field against Nova on a sunny Washington D.C Saturday afternoon.  The game start poorly for us, having to play constant defense for the first 10 minutes, the forwards tackled well limiting Nova to a penalty.  Martiano responded with a penalty for us within a minute to level the scores, the following period of play was very stop start on a poor pitch with neither side able to make an impact.  In the twentieth minute, a good back row move put Brett Willis in to score; Martiano converted the try.  Nova’s response was 2 penalties making the score 10 – 9 to Mystic River.  The first half scoring was completed by the first Nova try and another penalty by Martiano, making the score at the half 13 – 14 to Nova.

The second half started with us playing into the wind, we opened the half very poorly lacking focus, this absence of concentration allowed the Nova backs to score 2 converted tries in the first 6 minutes making the score 28–13 to Nova, they followed up with a penalty after 15 making the score 31–13.  Substitutes Brad Dzierzak and Jason Ruel came on for Richie Sullivan and Mike York at the twenty-minute mark giving the forwards a lift.  The game plan was starting to work, we showed what we could achieve as a team, good interplay, rucking and communication allowing us to close the gap to the final score with a second try from Brett Willis converted by Martiano and a forward push over scrum touched down by the number eight Declan O'Riordan.

The B Team losing in a badly executed match 12 – 17 completed a poor weekend.  The scores coming from Jason Ruel and Jeff Blue, one being converted by Rodney Eddy.