High School Boys
Penn HS and Royal Irish started the Rugby Indiana Super League on a winning note, as once again the league of four ranked teams kicks off.
Royal Irish played two games, one in-league and one not, beating Brownsburg 25-10 and then on Sunday defeating Ohio-based Archbishop Moeller School 41-9.
It was a good weekend for the defending HS club NIT champs.
The first annual North-East Jesuit Rugby Tournament was played over the weekend of April 16 - 17. Six teams: Boston College HS, Canisius High (Buffalo, NY), Fairfield Prep, Fordham Prep and St. Peter's Prep (Jersey City, NJ) met in pool play. The tournament, hosted by Fairfield Prep, was played on the campus of Fairfield University.
Playoffs, tournaments, and big games - it was a busy couple of weeks, and here are some of the players who were hard at work in Boys HS games:
Dalton Hola
The hard-running No. 8 was a central figure in Red Mountain’s playoff win over the Blackbirds in Rugby Arizona’s semis.
Here's the latest in Boys HS action from Maryland, including the Maryland Area Varsity Rugby Conference (MACRC), All-Maryland club season, and Maryland Independent Athletic Association (MIAA).
Club
In a battle of the unbeaten teams in the Maryland HS Club league, West Carroll bested the Maryland Exiles, 27-24 this past weekend.
Well, we had a nice bunch of games in the Jesuit Rugby Classic, and that, along with the St. Edward win over St. Ignatius, colors much of what our rankings do this week.
We have added some teams - ten in fact - to the rankings to reward some good results in the JRC and elsewhere. East HS out of Utah is the biggest entry, but St. Francis out of Hawaii is another.