High School Boys
Having toured both London and Bath, the Marin Highlanders are on to their second game of their tour of England and Wales.
With some of the played a little under the weather, this game might be a tough one, with some second-team guys being moved up. But that's the thing about a tour, too—you never know who will be asked to make an impact.
We were waiting on Allen to see how they might start, and now on further reflection are pretty sure they should basically take the Dallas Quins Colts old spot near the Top 10.
On tour in Italy, the Mystic River U19 team spent the first couple of days in training with two different clubs in Milan.
The players will be playing three games through their ten-day tour, but before they started playing, they needed some time to warm up after getting out of the Massachusetts winter. They went through training sessions with Cus Milano and then the Colorno club.
OK so what to make of the Florida high school season.
Preseason games seemed to vault some teams into the mix, and then when the league stared, there was trouble.
Defending champs Jacksonville started off shakily with a preseason loss to Georgia’s Phoenix Alpharetta, but then has gone from strength to strength.
Tennessee’s Germantown HS team capped off a three-game tour of Louisiana with three victories.
On Saturday, Germantown defeated Brother Martin 57-10 and the Bayou Hurricanes (ranked #22 among HS Clubs by GRR) 59-19.
On Sunday, Germantown beat Jesuit of New Orleans (ranked #46 by GRR among single-school teams) 50-7.