Two blowouts and one game that was closer than expected made up the New England DI club games this weekend.

Mystic River had to work for it in a 25-15 victory that Head Coach Nick Murphy said was a function of his team’s inexperience.

“New Haven played well, but I don’t think we played very well,” Murphy said. “We got the win and the bonus point, but we ran into a lot of penalty trouble and didn’t adjust to the referee. We got some tries just before halftime and one right after, and that kind of put the game away, but we are still a young team.”

Mystic rested a few regular starters in anticipation of next week’s match against unbeaten Boston.

Meanwhile Boston pushed aside Amoskeag 71-3. Head Coach Mike Diamantopoulos said the story of the match was like many of the games his team has played – very competitive for 25-30 minutes, and then a blowout after that.

Boston Irish Wolfhounds kept pace with a 67-6 win over winless Hartford that was very similar to the Boston v. Amoskeag game. The teams changed ends with the score 17-6, but after that it was all Wolfhounds.

“We had a rough second half last week so we really worked at that this week in training,” said BIW Coach Fergal Hehir. “They really competed with us in the forwards, but once we got the ball out wide we were very dangerous.”

Center Steven Frey continued his solid run of form, and wing Matt Leonido and fullback Kiwa Oakes also played well as the Wolfhounds improved to 4-1.