The marquee game for this week is probably Gonzaga at St. Ignatius.
This is a longtime rivalry where each team provides the other with one of their biggest challenges in the regular season.
This week Gonzaga comes in on a bit of a high, ranked #1 and unbeaten so far with a victory over a very strong Charlotte Cardinals team. St. Ignatius appears to be a work in progress, as they have a couple of big wins under their belts, but also a somewhat humbling loss to Pendleton which pointed directly to issues in finishing off scoring chances.
Still, it promises to be a good contest.
Old Rivals Gonzaga and St. Ignatius Meet in Cleveland
Oddly, GRR will not be there as we'll be in St. Louis for the All-Catholic tournament held at SLUH, where we get to see some flyover country talent. There's another tournament going in, as well, with Fairfield Prep hosting a Jesuit tournament that include Massachusetts power BC High. Good to see the Massachusetts teams cross a border.
Other games of note: San Diego Mustangs and SOC Raptors clash in a game that controls seeding to HS Nationals (we're pretty sure both have been invited at this point). In Pennsylvania Cumberland Valley takes on GGA and St. Joe's plays La Salle. All of those teams won last week.
Time for a Rant
OK so we try really hard to give you all the HS games this week. We miss games all the time. There's a reason for that—almost every league or state uses a different system. USA Rugby's Xplorer App has a really good (if you use it) system for tracking leagues and games. You can have scorers and scoring timelines in there, which any league should be tracking and, of course, saves us time. Several states use it, although some use it differently than others. Some have each round of competition listed separately for each weekend. Some list every game of the season under one round, so you have to scroll down.
That's not much a big deal, but it just goes to show you how people can use even a standard interface differently.
A second issue within Xplorer is when people don't use it completely. No lineups. No scorers. Here's a scoring summary from one game from last week in RugbyPA:
That's not helpful.
Our other issue with Xplorer is how leagues name their leagues. Few think of it in terms of those who follow more than one competition.
Here's a look at a screenshot of part of our competition list on Xplorer:
Well that's not very specific. "Boys Single School Varsity" is ... where?
This is better:
Much, MUCH more specific. Kudos.
And then we've got the leagues that track their results via Google Sheets, the ones that track them privately and then post a PDF with their standings ... if they remember, the leagues that rely on referee scheduling to track scores, and the leagues that use Matchfacts. Don't have much against Matchfacts, except that the individual scorers aren't recorded ... it's just that it's yet another thing to track. Can't we all just use Xplorer?
03.21.2024HS Boys
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Check back for scores:
3/20
Faith Family Academy
7-74
Dallas Jesuit
Texas
3/21
Loyola Blakefield
at
Calvert Hall
Md. IAA
3/22
Neuqua
44-12
Fox Valley
Illinois
3/22
Raptors
35-0
Spring Hill
Tennessee
3/22
Gonzaga Black
at
Good Counsel
MAVRC
3/22
NOLA Jesuit
19-49
Lake Travis
La./Tex
3/20
Four Points
17-40
Woodlands
Texas
3/22
HCYA
22-24
St. Pius X
Texas SS
3/22
Bend Blues
0-32
Summit
Oregon
3/22
San Diego Mustangs
31-21
SOC Raptors
SoCal
3/23
St. Edward
40-19
Moeller
Ohio
3/23
Pelham
Ccld
St. Augustine
Non-Conf.
3/23
Rockford MI
at
Chicago Lions
Non-Conf.
3/23
St. Louis Jets
5-12
901
Non-Conf.
3/23
Gonzaga
21-27
St. Ignatius Cle.
Non-Conf.
3/23
Gonzaga Black
0-47
St. Ignatius Varsity Blue
Non-Conf.
3/23
Corning HS
7-45
St. Ignatius Varsity B
Non-Conf.
3/23
Vienna
21-14
Aspetuck
Non-Conf.
3/23
Granite Bay
0-21
Eastside Lions
Non-Conf.
3/23
EPA
7-38
SacPal
NorCal Gold
3/23
Gridley
14-40
Lamorinda
NorCal Gold
3/23
Monarch
at
Valor
Colorado
3/23
St. Paul
21-7
Warren Easton
Louisiana
3/23
East Jefferson
5-31
Brother Martin
Louisiana
3/23
Camas
52-10
Rainier
Washington
3/23
Eastside
Rscd
Chuckanut
Washington
3/23
Canada
at
Wenatchee
Cascade
3/23
SFGG
26-22
De La Salle
NorCal Premier
3/23
Marin
25-15
Danville
NorCal Premier
3/23
TigersA
7-43
Cardinals Red
NC Tier 1
3/23
Clayton
Ppd
Raleigh Redhawks
NC Tier 1
3/23
Wando
Ccld
Raleigh Rattlesnakes
NC Tier 1
3/23
Tigers B
vs
Cardinals Gold
NC Tier 2/3
3/23
Cardinals Blue
vs
Greer
NC Tier 2/3
3/23
Southern Pines
5-38
Sandhill Sharks
NC Tier 2/3
3/23
Lake Norman
vs
Greensboro Motley
NC Tier 2/3
3/23
St James JV
vs
SLUH JV
SLUH All-Catholic
3/23
ND de LaSalette
0-7
STA
SLUH All-Catholic
3/23
Fr Ryan
10-50
Marquette
SLUH All-Catholic
3/23
SLUH
11-12
St X
SLUH All-Catholic
3/23
St James
7-47
ND de LaSalette
SLUH All-Catholic
3/23
STA
27-14
St X
SLUH All-Catholic
3/23
St. James
vs
Fr. Ryan
SLUH All-Catholic
3/23
Fairfield Prep
10-0
McQuaid Jesuit
NE Jesuit Tnmnt
3/23
Fordham Prep
14-17
Boston College HS
NE Jesuit Tnmnt
3/23
McQuaid Jesuit
0-10
BC HS 2
NE Jesuit Tnmnt
3/23
Fordham Prep
0-3
Fairfield Prep 2
NE Jesuit Tnmnt
3/23
Fairfield Prep
3-0
BC HS 2
NE Jesuit Tnmnt
3/23
Fordham Prep
0-8
McQuaid Jesuit
NE Jesuit Tnmnt
3/23
Fairfield Prep
0-41
Boston College HS
NE Jesuit Tnmnt
3/23
Boston College HS
15-3
Fairfield Prep 2
NE Jesuit Tnmnt
3/23
KC Jr. Blues
22-18
901
Non-Conference
3/23
SLV Rhinos
44-10
Wasatch
Utah
3/23
Murray
36-12
Riverton B
Utah
3/23
Layton Christian
45-17
East
Utah
3/23
Mountain View
12-61
West Valley
Utah
3/23
South Davis
21-64
Caveman
Utah
3/23
Riverton
45-0
Westlake
Utah
3/23
Provo
0-30
TC Fusion
Utah
3/23
Herriman
36-21
Highland
Utah
3/23
Mountain Ridge
0-30
Tribal
Utah
3/23
Herriman B
at
Bear River/Cache
Utah
3/23
Kearns
29-7
Olympus
Utah
3/23
Linn-Benton
15-34
Chinook
Oregon
3/23
Canby
7-24
Newberg
Oregon
3/23
Eastside Tsunami
33-7
West Valley
Oregon
3/23
Santa Barbara
36-12
Hawaiian Gardens
SoCal
3/23
Belmont Shore 2
47-0
Thunder 2
SoCal
3/23
Pasadena
7-33
Santa Monica
SoCal
3/23
OMBAC
7-19
SOC Raptors 2
SoCal
3/23
Belmont Shore
32-12
Thunder
SoCal
3/23
Try Time
38-22
Back Bay
SoCal
3/23
OMBAC
19-7
Rancho Cucamonga
SoCal
3/23
North Central
14-50
Louisville Crash
Indiana
3/23
Xavier HS
31-0
Rye
New York
3/23
Loudoun
19-36
Richmond
Virginia
3/24
St. Louis Jets
24-5
Christian Brothers Tenn.
Non-Conf.
3/24
Georgetown Prep
at
Wasps RFC England
Non-Conf.
3/24
War Eagle
12-48
TigersA
Non-Conf.
3/24
Berks
31-12
Doylestown
RugbyPA
3/24
Cumberland Valley
22-40
Gregory the Great
RugbyPA
3/24
