High School Boys
Tempe built on last week's win over San Clemente with a workmanlike defeat of Salpointe Catholic in Arizona league play.
After a slow start, Tempe started to use its physical and elusive attackers and ran out 51-7 winners.
South Meck won a high-profile clash with rivals Myers Park on Friday evening, shutting out Myers Park 15-0 on a warm and dry, but windy, evening on the turf of the Matthews Sportsplex.
Just over 30 games on the slate this week, weather permitting.
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North Carolina's clash between Myers Park and South Meck, which we previewed a while ago, finally gets played. It's a massive Friday Night rivalry match and should get a big crowd as these two schools are rivals in any sport, and both are having good seasons this winter.
The Long Beach Poly High School girls team is going from strength to strength in the Southern California Girls Open 7s Division.
Most of the group has been playing together since they were in the Belmont Shore Under 10s team, and how they play as a unit continues to owe a debt to that beginning.
The HS club scene is moving slowly, so we took our time going through the Week 3 of the rankings to be sure we didn't overlook stuff—yeah, that seems counterintuitive but it's actually easier to miss results when there are hardly any than when there are a lot.