High School Boys
The Pelham boys U18 rugby team in West Chester County, NY is now a varsity program.
The decision was made Monday night, March 16, in a meeting of the Pelham, NY school district Board and was the culmination of a long (eight years) development of the program and a short (two months) process within the school district.
Jesuit of Sacramento improved to 5-0 in their defeat of one of their chief rivals in Northern California, Dixon.
Dixon dropped to 4-3.
The latest Boys single-school rankings sees a small shift up top as Gonzaga, having beaten the #2 club team, Royal Irish, edge up past Penn, who did just fine in beating a tough St. Ignatius team.
Orlando has replaced Kahuku HS in the Boys National Invitational Championship after Kahuku opted to play in a west coast invitational instead, and the move is, in the end, jut reward for an improving Orlando team that earned some measure of revenge this past weekend over Daytona.
Last week's rankings were bad - we made several errors in identifying teams and players and as a result the entire effort was substandard. We've done a better job this week.