In a dramatic overtime dame, the View Park Prep team frm Los Angeles defeated previously 5-1 Dana Hills to advance in the Southern California Youth Rugby Varsity White playoffs.

In a wild game, View Park led 17-13 at halftime, scoring three tries through their forward pack, with No. 8 Tay Braggs leading the charge, while Dana Hills scored a try and two penalties.

View Park extended their lead with two tries in the second half, with Charles Farrar powering through at center and Elisha Jones following it up. That made it 29-13, or so they thought. However, as it turned out, the referee Bert Moeller had ruled the conversion View Park thought they'd kicked, a miss. It was actually 27-13. That means Dana Hills needed to score twice to tie the game, and they did, scoring two impressive tries, both converted, to tie the game. Flyhalf Anton Grigoriou, a HS All American camp invitee, was brilliant with his kicking, converting all three Dana Hills tries and adding two penalties. 

The whistle went for full time, View Park celebrated, and then were informed that the game was tied, and they needed to play a ten-minute overtime.

In the overtime, View Park dominated, scoring a converted try through flyhalf Jabari Fernandes and then adding another when Braggs pounced on a loose ball. View Park won 39-27, and their coach, David Hughes, acknowledged that his team was fortunate to emerge victorious without a consistent goalkicking threat on the team.

"It has hurt us all year," he said, looking back at his team's four-try, 26-22 loss to Dana Hills in the first week of the season. 

Still, the LA team advances, and Dana Hills, after an very strong debut season in Varsity White, is done.