High School Boys
This is our opening attempt at the Boys Single-School Rankings.
For the most part this ranking reflects how 2018-19 ended. However, we've made a few changes at the top. With a coaching change and some player losses at Jesuit, we're bumping Gonzaga up to a preseason #1. This is speculation, to be sure, but a sign that just because you won last year doesn't mean you win this year.
It was a very weird weekend in the CIF league in Southern California.
Defending champion St. John Bosco not only lost, they forfeited. Mira Costa, which had pulled off that impressive win over Bosco last week, lost big and was shut out by a really strong Torrey Pines team.
Here's the latest from the Southern California Boys Varsity White.
Warren defeated California HS 52-12 to improve to 2-1 (1-1 in conference play). But Wilson is the team that is in control of the LA Division, holding off Saint Anthony’s 32-22 to improve to 2-0.
A high school select-side 15s tournament independent of the USA Rugby RCT system is going to be held this coming June.
Set up and run by Eagle Impact Rugby Academy, but open to all select-sides (pending acceptance of an application), the EIRA National Invitation All Star Tournament will be held June 20-21 at the Moose Rugby Grounds in Elkhart, Ind.
In something of a barnburner in Southern California high school action, Wilson High School held off a determined and very skilled Saint Anthony's HS 32-22 Friday night.
Both teams are under the umbrella of the Belmont Shore Rugby Club, and will forward players to the Belmont Shore HS Club, and so this game showed that Belmont Shore will likely be formidable later this spring.