Easter Weekend and snow in Colorado made things a little slow last week.
But we did ave some big movers in the GRR Boys Single-School rankings nevertheless. Greenwich beat the defending NIT Tier II and New Jersey champs Union, by the score of 101-0. You can't ignore that kind of performance. Greenwich moves up three spots, and could have moved up more except that St. Ignatius went to Texas and beat everybody (so far). St. Thomas Aquinas beat KC Jr. Blues 15-0, and that's an impressive result too. It moves STA up six spots.
At the lower end of the top 50, Neuqua out of Illinois moves in after some solid performances, including a competitive loss to Notre Dame de La Salette, and then two wins over two of the stronger teams in Michigan. And #42 Providence in North Carolina got slammed by Myers Park, and so they drop out and Myer Park comes in.
Fishers, who beat Sparta, who beat West Ottawa, also joins the top 50.
| Goff Rugby Report Boys HS Single-School Rankings 2016 #8 | |||
| Rank | Prev | Team | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Gonzaga (DC) | 3-0 in Spain Tour |
| 2 | 2 | Sacramento Jesuit (Calif.) | Defeated Solo (MS8) |
| 3 | 3 | Herriman (Utah) | Defeated Utah Lions |
| 4 | 5 | Xavier (NY) | Idle |
| 5 | 6 | Penn (Ind.) | Swept Penn Invitational |
| 6 | 7 | St. Ignatius (Ohio) | Defeated St. Thomas (29), Cy-Fair, Westlake (11) |
| 7 | 10 | Greenwich (Conn.) | Defeated Union (NJ) (MS31) |
| 8 | 4 | Kahuku (Hawaii) | Idle |
| 9 | 8 | St. Edward (Ohio) | Idle |
| 10 | 9 | Mira Costa (Calif.) | Idle |
| 11 | 11 | Westlake (Texas) | Lost to St. Ignatius (7) |
| 12 | 13 | Georgetown Prep (Md.) | Florida trip |
| 13 | 14 | Lake Travis (Texas) | Defeated Rock Rugby (MS13) |
| 14 | 12 | La Costa Canyon (Calif.) | Idle |
| 15 | 21 | St. Thomas Aquinas (Kan.) | Defeated KC Jr. Blues (MS10) |
| 16 | 15 | Snow Canyon (Utah) | Forfeit Win |
| 17 | 16 | Charlotte Catholic (NC) | Idle |
| 18 | 17 | East HS (Colo.) | Snowed out |
| 19 | 18 | Brownsburg (Ind.) | Idle |
| 20 | 19 | Wando (SC) | Idle |
| 21 | 20 | Jesuit New Orleans (La.) | Idle |
| 22 | 22 | Regis Jesuit (Colo.) | Snowed out |
| 23 | 28 | Jesuit-Dallas (Texas) | Idle |
| 24 | 23 | St. Paul's (La.) | Idle |
| 25 | 24 | Torrey Pines (Cailf.) | Idle |
| 26 | 25 | Cathedral Catholic (Calif.) | Idle |
| 27 | 27 | Union HS (Ore.) | Defeated Prairie |
| 28 | 26 | Riviera Beach MA (Fla.) | Idle |
| 29 | 29 | St. Thomas (Texas) | Lost to St. Ignatius (7) |
| 30 | 30 | Unionville (Pa.) | Idle |
| 31 | 31 | Pelham (NY) | Defeated Cape Pirates |
| 32 | 32 | St. John Bosco (Calif.) | Idle |
| 33 | 33 | Olympus (Utah) | Idle |
| 34 | 34 | Cumberland Valley (Pa.) | Idle |
| 35 | 35 | South Doyle (Tenn.) | Idle |
| 36 | 36 | Ravenwood (Tenn.) | Idle |
| 37 | 37 | ND de la Salette (Ill.) | Idle |
| 38 | 39 | Bixby (Okla.) | Defeated Yukon |
| 39 | 38 | Greenville HS (SC) | Idle |
| 40 | 40 | Edina (Minn.) | Idle |
| 41 | 41 | View Park Prep (Calif.) | Idle |
| 43 | 43 | Union (Okla.) | Idle |
| 44 | 44 | Capital (Idaho) | Idle |
| 45 | 45 | Rocky Mountain (Idaho) | Idle |
| 46 | 46 | Highland (Utah) | Idle |
| 47 | 47 | Fairfield Prep | Defeated Darien |
| 48 | Unr | Myers Park (NC) | Defeated Providence (42) |
| 48 | 48 | BC High (Mass.) | Idle |
| 49 | Unr | Neuqua (Ill.) | Defeated Grandville (49), W. Ottawa |
| 50 | Unr | Fishers (Ind.) | Lost to Penn (6), Bt. Sparta |
So many saints. St. Thomas Aquinas was a 13th-century friar who was a genius of a writer, thinker, and philosopher and is one of the great influences in the Catholic Church's tradition of teaching. Notre Dame de la Salette isn't a person, it's a vision. Two children in La Salette, France in the 19th Century reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary weeping bitter tears. St. Thomas Houston is (we think) named after Thomas the Apostle, the famous "doubting Thomas" who was unwilling to believe Christ resurrected until he had seen the evidence himself. St. John Bosco was a priest, educator and writer of the 19th Century. He founded a movement dedicated to bringing education to the poor. St. Paul was one of the 12 Apostles. He traveled throughout Asia and Europe founding churches and writing letters (epistles) that have been memorialized in the New Testament of the Bible. St. Ignatius was a Basque knight who founded, in the 16th Century, the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits, the organization, along with the Christian Brothers and Brothers of the Holy Cross, to have founded and run most of the Catholic schools around the world.) St. Edward is named after Edward the Confessor, King of England in the 11th Century, and (almost) the last of the Anglo-Saxon kings before William the Conqueror showed up. Gonzaga is St. Aloysius Gonzaga, who was one of the early Jesuits. He died at 23 caring for victims of a plague in the 16th Century.
