Travers Island, Pelham, NY - The New York Athletic Club raced out to a 33-12 halftime lead over the visiting Dallas Harlequins and then cruised to a 52-19 win. Eight different NYAC players crossed for tries; six of them converted.

Prospects for the Harlequins dimmed considerably after just eight minutes. An outburst by one of the Harlequins following his reception of a yellow card, turned the offense into a red card and the visiting Texans played the remaining 72 minutes of the match with just 14 men.

First Half
NYAC’s scoring parade started in the second minute when Eagle loose forward Lou Stanfill made a long break inside Dallas’s half and then offloaded to No. 8 Al McFarland for a try that wing Rob Johnson converted, 7-0.

Fullback Chris Chapman scored NYAC’s second try on a set play 15 yard’s from Dallas’s line in the eighth minute, 12-0. Flanker Neil McMillan crossed for the host’s third try at the end of a multi-phase, 30 yard movement in the 11^th minute and Johnson converted, 19-0.

A brilliant individual effort by wing Frank Gianchetta in the 21^st minute produced the AC’s fourth try and Eagle scrumhalf Mike Petri scored their 5^th at the end of a multi-phase, length of the field effort in the 24^th.

Wing Rob Johnson nailed both conversions, extending NYAC’s lead to 33-0.

The Harlequins finally got on the board in the 27^th minute when scrumhalf Shawn Begg scored in the corner following a 20 meter run, 33-5. Begg would touch down again in the 39^th minute, following multiple Dallas attacks on the AC line from in close. Shawn Begg’s conversion brought the halftime score to 33-12.

Second Half
The New York AC made multiple substitutions at the break, bringing in replacements for Eagles Petri and Stanfill among them.

Still, it was the hosts who opened the second half scoring in the 10^th minute when NYAC hooker Conor Coyne touched down after multiple close-in attacks on the Harlequins’ line. Johnson converted, 40-12.

Dallas replied three minutes later when Sam Rooke crossed for a try that Begg improved 40-19. But that would be the visitors’ last hurrah.

NYAC added an unconverted try by lock James Denise in the 22^nd minute, a try and conversion by reserve back Max Levine in the 42^nd, bringing the final score to 52-19.

Dallas Harlequins New York AC

Jim Jewison                 1          Nicholas Discala

Zach Rutledge            2          Conor Coyne,

Roberto Hanson          3          Patrick Fiffe

Devin Musick              4          James Denise

Pete Van Scoy            5          Brian Doyle

Matt Welsh                 6          Lou Stanfill

Jimmy Clark                7          Neil McMillian

Troy Liddell                8          Alastair McFarland

Shawn Begg                9          Mike Petri

Tim Moxness               10        Steve Evans

Joshua Downing         11        Rob Johnson

Sean O'Sullivan           12        Toby L'Estrange

Spencer Cameron        13        Steve Annunziato

Leon Guerin                14        Frank Gianchetta

Blake Rodgers            15        Chris Chapman

Reserves

Sam Rooke                  16        Mike Schacter

Max Paganini              17        Ryan McTiernan

Usani Ewah                 18        Seth Cohen

Kevin Becker              19        Colin Murray

Ben Opplinger             20        Marvin Baptiste

Jose Molina                 21        Max Levine

22        Ryan Diehl

23        Mike Lugano

SCORING:

New York AC 52
Tries: McFarland, Chapman, McMillian, Gianchetta, Petri, Coyne, Denise, Levine
Convs: Levine, Johnson 5

Dallas Harlequins 19:
Tries: Begg 2, Rooke
Convs: Begg 2

Halftime: NYAC 33, Dallas 12

Referee: Marc Nelson

Assistant Referees: Julian Bevan, Greg Gilliam.