GRR: Colorado
Grand Canyon University kicked off their season with a two-game tour of Colorado.
The 'Lopes opened the trip Friday night with a matchup against Colorado University, and Sunday against Colorado State.
The opener was GCU's first runout and it looked it. They were hit with mistakes and committed a ton of penalties.
Rugby Colorado's girls 7s league kicked off this past weekend and we're seeing some significant growth in numbers.
Denver East, Lumberjackies, and Fort Collins Hammers went through their games unbeaten.
East beat Highlands Ranch 26-5, tied Lumberjackies, and beat Valor 33-5.
Colorado girls kicked off their season past weekend with a 7s tournament.
Utah's United joined the Rugby Colorado teams and teams from the Colorado Interscholastic Rugby Association in a multi-bracket competition that, with 2nd squads, featured 22 separate teams in action on Saturday.
Regis Jesuit logged a workmanlike Thursday-night victory over the Palmer Terrors in Colorado despite some pretty brutal weather.
"I am excited for some nice spring weather in May," said Regis Head Coach Ethan Pougnet, who took his side on a March tour to Arizona only to get rained on there.
Colorado HS teams are a hardy bunch and they got going this past weekend despite the snow.
Chief among these are the Castle Rock Pirates, who won their third game in a row in D2. After playing D1 teams East HS and NCOS Falcons in a couple of preseason friendlies, the Pirates came out of the blocks nicely.