GRR: All-Stars
Eagle Impact Rugby Academy, (EIRA), a network of development academies set up by Salty Thompson (HSAA Head Coach), and Michael Engelbrecht, (HSAA and U20s assistant coach), is beginning to make a difference in high performance age grade rugby.
The Washington state Loggers Boys select side split their two games with visiting Down HS from Northern Ireland Saturday.
In a tense Varsity game, the Loggers aged Down 15-12, while in the JV game, Down’s ends emerged victorious 20-12.
Down moves on to the Canadian leg of their trip, as they travel to Victoria BC.
Paced by the play of Mateo Gowland, Yoh Nakayama, No. 8 Jack Weigold, and center Michael McTiernan, Greewnich/Fairfield County won the Boys Varsity bracket of the New England Regional All-Star Tournament (RAST) Sunday in Devens, Mass.
The Vermont Youth Rugby girls team won the Northeast Regional All-Star Tournament Sunday, beating Massachusetts and Connecticut in a round robin.
London Wasps Academy staff member was in attendance at the Great Northwest Challenge this past weekend scouting talent, and has been in consultation with High School All American Head Coach Salty Thompson about bringing young US-based to the UK.
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