Mystic River Host Pine Banks NCR Fall XVs Playoffs 2026

Mystic River Rugby · Pine Banks Park, Main Field, Malden, MA · 14 matches, Nov 14 & 20–22

Host: Mystic River Rugby · Venue: Pine Banks Park, Main Field, Malden, MA Site role: East regional host for the NCR men's XVs playoffs (all four divisions). All kickoffs Eastern. 14 matches over four days. Source: NCR 2026 XVs Nationals brackets, revised 9 Nov 2026.

Pine Banks hosts men's matches only. The NCR women's East regional is at Canton, MA (Nov 13–15); no women's playoff match is scheduled at Pine Banks.

Saturday, November 14 — Men's DI & DI-AA first round

Kickoff	Division	Round	Match	Game
11:00 AM	D1-AA	Round of 16 (East)	Boston College vs West Chester	2
1:00 PM	D1-AA	Round of 16 (East)	Northeastern vs St. Joe's	7
3:00 PM	D1	Round 1	Dartmouth vs Kutztown	17

All six teams enter directly — no qualifying match precedes these three.

Friday, November 20 — Men's DII & DIII round of 1

Kickoff	Division	Round	Match	Game
10:00 AM	DIII	Round of 16 (East)	Nichols vs winner of Game 20	21
12:00 PM	DII	Round of 16 (East)	Vermont vs Scranton	25
2:00 PM	DIII	Round of 16 (East)	Franciscan vs winner of Game 12	29
4:00 PM	DII	Round of 16 (East)	Boston vs Rensselaer Tech	33

Path in — the two play-ins that fill the DIII slots (both away from Pine Banks):

• Game 12 — Holy Cross vs Colgate, Sat Nov 14, 1:00 PM, Holy Cross Field 1, Worcester, MA → winner plays Franciscan at Pine Banks, Fri Nov 20, 2:00 PM.

• Game 20 — USMMA vs Middlebury, Sun Nov 15, 1:00 PM, Butler Township Field 2, Butler, PA → winner plays Nichols at Pine Banks, Fri Nov 20, 10:00 AM.

Saturday, November 21 — placing matches and the DI / DI-AA quarterfinals

Kickoff	Division	Round	Match	Game
10:00 AM	DIII	Regional 3rd (East)	Loser G21 vs Loser G29	38
12:00 PM	DII	Regional 3rd (East)	Loser G25 vs Loser G33	43
2:00 PM	DI-AA	National Quarterfinal	Winner G2 vs Winner G7	50
4:00 PM	DI	National Quarterfinal	St. Bonaventure vs Winner G17	53
6:00 PM	DIII	Colonial Bowl	TBA vs TBA	55

• The 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM matches are the consolation ties for Friday's four losers at Pine Banks.

• The 2:00 PM DI-AA quarterfinal is an all-Pine Banks affair: both sides come out of the Nov 14 matches at this ground.

• St. Bonaventure (defending DI national champion) has a first-round bye and enters at 4:00 PM against the Dartmouth–Kutztown winner.

• The 6:00 PM Colonial Bowl sits in the DIII Challenge Bowl bracket; NCR has not yet posted its two teams.

Sunday, November 22 — Men's DII & DIII national quarterfinals

Kickoff	Division	Round	Match	Game
1:00 PM	DIII	National Quarterfinal	Winner G21 vs Winner G29	60
3:00 PM	DII	National Quarterfinal	Winner G25 vs Winner G33	63

Both are all-Pine-Banks quarterfinals: every team in them comes through Friday's round of 16 on this field.

What a Pine Banks win leads to:

Pine Banks match	Winner goes to
DI QF — Sat Nov 21, 4:00 PM (G53)	DI National Semifinal, Sat Dec 5, 2:00 PM, Butler Township Field 2 (Butler, PA) vs winner of Brown–(Queens/Fairfield) at Rock Hill
DI-AA QF — Sat Nov 21, 2:00 PM (G50)	DI-AA National Semifinal, Sat Dec 5, 12:00 PM, Butler Township Field 2 (Butler, PA) vs winner of the Rock Hill quarterfinal (G41)
DIII QF — Sun Nov 22, 1:00 PM (G60)	DIII National Semifinal, Fri Dec 11, 2:00 PM, SaberCats Stadium, Houston, TX vs winner of the Rock Hill quarterfinal (G57)
DII QF — Sun Nov 22, 3:00 PM (G63)	DII National Semifinal, Fri Dec 11, 6:00 PM, SaberCats Stadium, Houston, TX vs winner of the Rock Hill quarterfinal (G61)

Finals: men's DI and DI-AA national championships Sat Dec 12; DII and DIII national championships Sun Dec 13 — all at SaberCats Stadium, Houston.

The other East site

Manchester Meadows, Rock Hill, SC is the counterpart host on the other side of the East/South half of every men's bracket. In all four divisions the Pine Banks quarterfinal winner meets the Rock Hill quarterfinal winner at the national semifinal — at Butler, PA on Dec 5 for DI and DI-AA, at Houston on Dec 11 for DII and DIII.