GRR: Gonzaga
Gonzaga HS out of DC comes back to the USA after a successful tour of Chile.
The main Gonzaga varsity team played four games, losing to Catolica U18s 25-19, but betting Grange School 14-10 and also beating Alianza Francesca 32-0 and Sporting Rugby Club 24-0 in shortened games.
The Gonzaga White team defeated Stade Francais U18s 31-19 and Grange School Bs 42-7.
The early-season meeting of the two defending NIT champions lived up to expectations as 2014 single-school champs Gonzaga edged 2014 multi-school club champs Royal Irish 27-25 on the final play of the game.
It’s not often you get two major champions playing each other in a weekend. This weekend, we actually have that happening twice, as the men’s DIA and Varsity Cup defending champs are playing each other, and in Boys HS rugby, the HS Club and Single-School NIT winners face off.
Defending Boys NIT single-school champs Gonzaga HS defeated Charlotte Catholic and the Charlotte Tigers in a preseason two.