High School Boys
There's some movement in the Boys Single-School Rankings, with Penn edging up despite Herriman's excellent 7s performance, on the basis of a pretty great 15s performance in Lindenwood.
St. Thomas Aquinas won 26-17 over Cardinal Gibbons this past weekend in Florida, cementing the team’s position as the DII Boys HS team in the state.
Nash Bash proved a good opening run-out for St. Xavier, as the Kentucky high school
The defending Kentucky state champs finished 3-0 at the Nashville, Tenn. tournament, barely getting by Harpeth 6-5, beating Clarksville 35-12, and finishing off the weekend with a 19-12 win over the Chiefs out of Illinois.
When the Florida Youth Rugby Boys DI league merged all of its pools to form on conference, the conventional wisdom was that the season would make going undefeated very difficult - travel, injury issues, and various other distractions would all have an influence - and in fact that wisdom was correct.
Archbishop Moeller enjoyed a good weekend at Nash Bash in Tennessee, going 3-0.
Moeller defeated the Chiefs out of Illinois (29-5), Clarksville out of Tennessee (38-7), and Harpeth, also out of Tennessee, with a much closer score of 7-5.