High School Boys
Rugby New York's Boys High School season starts this coming weekend.
Met NY will see all teams play in the same division, with seven teams in action:
Fordham Prep
New Rochelle HS
Pelham HS
Playrugby ACADEMY
Rockaway Club
St Anthony's HS
Rye HS
(Xavier HS is playing an independent schedule)
This was a very weird HS Club Rankings week.
While the top six remain unchanged because they all performed as expected, and perhaps even a bit better than expected, the rest of the Top 50 got a shakeup for a number of reasons:
1. Teams that have been idle a relatively long time lose traction.
This week sees massive changes in the Boys School rankings.
First of all, we've got to acknowledge that a couple of teams we'd been ranking as school teams are actually clubs and we're moving them over —Layton Christian and St. Charles Prep. We know, the names indicate they are single-school teams, but they're not.
Northern California's first step into competitive HS rugby this year was a tentative one, but it still happened, and that's a little victory in and of itself.
West Houston is for real; that's the likely conclusion after the team beat #3-ranked school team Strake Jesuit Saturday in Texas league play.
After starting the season with a tie to Strake and a loss to St. Thomas, West Houston won two games by identical 40-12 scores to set them up for a rematch with a very tough Strake team.
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