High School Boys
St. Thomas HS of Houston took a trip to Louisiana to play Brother Martin, and came back with a massive victory.
St. Thomas is returning 13 starters from last year, and their cohesiveness showed as they put Brother Martin to the sword 98-0. Senior captain Josh Pane scored four tries and junior openside flanker Griffin Maat scored four, including runs of 40 and 70 meters.
Phoenix Rugby wrapped up a successful weekend with a league win over Titans United and then a victory over visiting South Doyle, the defending Tennessee state champion.
St. Paul’s moved to 2-0 in the Deep South HS league with a 29-14 defeat of NIceville out of Florida’s panhandle.
Niceville had beaten Brother Martin the previous week and gave the defending regional champs some trouble, and even led early in the game.
“We had difficulty reading the ref and figuring out his calls,” said captain Christian Jarrett.
Point Loma has clinched 1st in the Southern California Varisty Blue San Diego conference with a 36-27 defeat of Valhalla.
The victory put Point Loma at 5-0 and Valhall finished 4-2.
La Costa Canyon defeated Cathedral Catholic 15-12 Saturday to improve to 4-0 Southern California’s Varsity Red Division.
Previously undefeated Cathedral drops to 3-1. The game was very tight all the way through, with both sides getting chances to score. The different, said LCC Head Coach Michael French, was that his La Costa players’ made decisions that worked.