GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Down 19-10 at halftime, the Glenwood Defiance rugby team needed some big plays to come back for a victory in its home finale against the Gentlemen of the Blue Goose on Saturday.

Greg McCorkle and James Robertson delivered with back-to-back 70-meter runs that resulted in tries, and Morgan Harris scored 24 second-half points as Glenwood rallied back to defeat the Blue Goose 41-29, avenging an early season loss and ending Breck's season at 6-7.

"It our last home game and we wanted to go out with a bang. We have been playing well, but it has just been close but no cigar," said Harris of his team, which hadn't won a Mountain Rugby League match since downing Aspen on June 23.

Harris opened Glenwood's scoring in the second frame with a dummy pass that spit two Blue Goose defenders as he sneaked through for a 30-meter scoring run trimming the Breck lead to 2.

Then, with a heads-up play instigated by Defiance flanker Ike Fitzgerald, Glenwood took the lead. Acting quickly before Blue Goose had set up for a lineout, Fitzgerald threw the ball in to McCorkle who sped down the right side line for a long-distance try. Harris hit the conversion and Glenwood went up 24-19.

"We were just sitting and watching," said Blue Goose head coach and player Peter Shafroth of the play. "A lot of those tries, they did very well because they were awake and caught us totally sleeping. That was probably the biggest difference in the game."

Defiance eventually built its lead to 34-19, but the Blue Goose wasn't ready to concede yet, as Patrick Stotter, who scored three ties on the day, recorded back-to-back tries to put Breckenridge back in the match.

"We came back with two tries to make a game of it again and that's kinda the way we have been all season long," said Shafroth. "We've been down, but we've never been out."

Breckenridge couldn't hit either of the conversion kicks after Stotter's tries, so Glenwood hung on to the lead at 34-29 with 10 minutes to go. Defiance later added one more try to seal it.