High School Boys
Laney HS improved to 3-0 and South Mecklenburg improved to 3-0-1 in North Carolina school action over the weekend, and both are chasing Hough, which also won.
Both Laney and South Meck expected close games and both got them. Hough, meanwhile, won relatively comfortably over Clover HS, as expected, to improve to 4-0.
Well, well ... here we are; the high school season is well and truly engaged with 10 Boys HS games this week and more to come.
The SCIRF in Southern California and the School season in North Carolina are ongoing. In a week the SoCal Youth Rugby kicks off with their school-oriented season (before, like North Carolina, they switch to club), and a week after that Florida gets going.
After the Winter Break the North Carolina school league comes back with six games this weekend.
The applications for the Boys HS National Championships is now open.
The HSNC will be held in Elkhart, Ind. Thursday, May 25 through Saturday, May 27, 2023. The move to the Memorial Day Weekend was made in consultation with HS coaches due to a regional conflict with graduation weekend at the University of Notre Dame.
The SoCal Interscholastic Rugby Federation league has kicked off with two weeks of games leading into the Christmas break, and while there's plenty of rugby to be played, two teams have gotten off to a 2-0 start.