Defense, Captain's Big Day Leads South Meck to Win
Defense, Captain's Big Day Leads South Meck to Win
South Meck moved to 2-0 and made an early statement in North Carolina's single-school league with an emphatic victory over Marvin Ridge.
There is still plenty of rugby to be played, but it's a solid start for South Meck as the Sabres beat Marvin Ridge 22-3.
Marvin Ridge kicked off the scoring with a 30-meter penalty kick. But South Meck answered fairly quickly.
Quinn Miller captained the side on the same day he learned he would be studying and playing rugby at Brown next fall, and he celebrated all of that with a try off a maul. That made it 5-3,
The teams battled on through the first half; it was a tight game and no one was able to score.
After halftime, South Meck’s Nick Flemmings scored a try with Brody Evans kicking the conversion to make it 12-3 and that kind of ensured the momentum was in the Sabres' favor.
Mac Howell scored next for South Meck off of a 22-meter run to make it 17-3. And finally Miller capped off a good day for him a hard-nosed rumble in from five meters out.
Overall it was a good showing for a South Meck team that won by the maximum against Corinth last week. Marvin Ridge slips to 1-1 while another first-week winner, Charlotte Catholic, didn't have a game. Hough won by forfeit, and frustratingly the Huskies have not officially taken the field yet.
"Our defense was phenomenal," said South Meck Head Coach Rock Norvell. "Marvin Ridge was only able to get the ball to the edge three times the entire game as we cut off the 12/13 channel by coming up fast and hard all night."
Next weekend is the final weekend of action until January 9. Marvin Ridge plays Hough in a big game for both, while Charlotte Catholic plays Corinth and South Meck faces Ardrey Kell.
