High School Boys
The Charlotte Cardinals won the Florida Invitational Rugby Showcase, beating Jacksonville in the final.
The Cardinals ran out an A side and a B side and on Saturday—the Cardinals A side beat the Jaguares 17-7 and Wando 24-0, while the B Side beat the Eastside Lions 17-14 and lost 12-3 to Jacksonville.
Having been ranked #1 for much of the season, St. Ignatius rolled into Elkhart, Ind. with a massive target on their backs and even more massive expectations.
The comeback didn’t happen this time.
Granite Bay ran out to an early lead and held on against the cardiac kids from Belmont Shore, capping a 12-week run as the #1-ranked HS Club team with a 29-9 victory in the national championship final.
The big favorites and rivals will meet for the Boys HS National Championship school-team championship, but we also saw some surprises on Day Two.
The word after Day One in the HS Club at the Boys HS Nationals was actually two words: “close” and “posts.”
The games were all close on Thursday, and the lesson, especially from the SOC Raptors vs Granite Bay game was, go for posts when you can—the winner has the most points, not the most tries.
Well, as one SOC player said, “lesson learned.”
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