GRR: Richmond
The Richmond Strikers won the Rugby Virginia championship defeating Fort Hunt 45-39 Saturday.
This capped off a very good season for Richmond in which they love to play fast—a 45-39 scoreline is definitely a Strikers-like scoreline.
The Richmond Strikers defeated Vienna 33-17 over the weekend, making for a very close league in Rugby Virginia.
With Richmond having dropped a 24-14 decision to Fort Hunt the week before and in March Vienna beat Fort Hunt 19-12, this is a wide open league.
Rugby Virginia U18 League Results and Standings:
The #47-ranked HS Club Richmond Strikers defeated the #32 Charlotte Tigers on a hot Saturday in Virginia.
From the opening kickoff, It was a very intense hard hitting game. Both teams showed solid skill with ball in hand and with their kicking games to keep pressure away from their goal line.
High School boys teams in Virginia got rugby started this weekend and one team got a bit of a rough reawakening.
A high-level invitational comes to Virginia with the Mid-Atlantic Youth Rugby Festival.