High School Boys
Flathead Valley's Black and Blue team defeated the Mud Dogs of Missoula 19-12 this past weekend to win the Montana Youth Rugby Boys HS championships.
The Black and Blue ended the season 8-0-1, and held on in a tough, physical match.
Payton Boyce scored three tries for Black and Blue and was named player of the game.
The Rocky Mountain Challenge, one of the oldest HS all-star tournaments around, if not the oldest, is set for another big year.
One of the five Regional Cup all-star tournaments, the event is as big as ever, featuring 16 boys varsity teams, and 12 boys JV teams.
They make no apologies in the high desert.
Out there in the state too many think is actually another country, out there where high school rugby has worked hard, scratching at the sandstone to get a foothold, there is, indeed, rugby for kids.
So it was in May that the Rio Rancho Rebels defeated the La Cueva Bears 22-17 to win the New Mexico Boys HS championship game.
Edina overcame an early deficit to beat Minnetonka 22-10 Saturday and win the Minnesota Youth Rugby Boys HS championship.
Minnetonka did take a 5-0 lead, capitalizing on some Edina errors. And in fact it wasn't really a comfortable run for Edina - last week they needed overtime to get through the semis against Duluth.
The Ohio Celts swept both games in the Boys Midwest All-Star Challenge, a three-team warmup for later Regional Cup Tournaments.
Playing at the Moose Rugby Grounds in Elkhart, Ind., Ohio defeated Illinois 57-0, and then came back from a 17-0 deficit to beat Indiana 24-17.
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