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Boys School Top 50 2024: Week 18

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Boys School Top 50 2024: Week 18

Thanks a lot Fairfield Prep for making it all even MORE complicated. Photo @CoolRugbyPhotos.

We continue to get some really out-of-the-blue results.

Fairfield Prep's dropping out of the Top 50 was the result of a not-great showing at the Gonzaga Classic. But then they come back and beat Greenwich. That's almost part for the course for Greenwich, which beat Xavier bu a lot but lost to Rye, beat Aspetuck but lost to Fairfield Prep, who lost to Vienna and BC High and Staples. 

Xaverian Brothers, who lost to Belmont High, just tied BC High. St. Martin's which lost twice to St. Thomas Aquinas, just beat them on a very strange ending of a game (not to discount the result at all, but it was weird). 

The result is that we have a ranking that could be very different if someone else looked at it. There's every reason to put St. Joseph's, who are into the Rugby PA final but have only a couple of out-of-state results, at, like, 25. Pelham, Rye, Xavier, Greenwich all could be picked at random on any given gameday. STA might well be, most of the time, stronger than St. Martin's.

Rank Prev Team Notes
1 1 Gonzaga (DC) Beat Georgetown Prep (24)
2 2 St. Ignatius (OH) Beat Xavier (16)
3 3 De La Salle (CA) Beat SFGG
4 5 East HS (UT) Beat LCA
5 6 Herriman (UT)  
6 7 St. Martin's (KS) Beat STA (4)
7 4 St. Thomas Aquinas (KS) Close loss to St. Martin's (7)
8 8 St. Edward (OH)  
9 9 Los Alamitos (CA)  
10 10 Torrey Pines (CA)  
11 11 BC High (MA) Tied Xaverian Brothers
12 12 Cathedral Catholic (CA)  
13 13 Greenwich (CT) Close loss to Fairfield Prep
14 14 St. Joe's Prep (PA) Beat Berks
15 15 Pelham HS (NY)  
16 16 Xavier (NY) Lost to St. Ignatius (2)
17 17 Rye (NY) Beat St. Anthony's
18 18 Dallas Jesuit (TX)  
19 19 St. Francis (CA)  
20 20 St. Augustine (NJ)  
21 21 Sacramento Jesuit (CA)  
22 22 Gregory the Great (PA)  
23 23 SLUH (MO) Close loss to KC Jr. Blues
24 24 Georgetown Prep (MD) Lost to Gonzaga (1)
25 25 Moeller (OH) Beat Olentangy
26 26 St. Xavier (OH) Beat Withrow
27 27 ND de la Salette (IL) Beat Chicago Lions
28 28 Hough (NC)  
29 29 Lake Travis (TX)  
30 30 St. Ignatius SF (CA)  
31 31 Strake Jesuit (TX)  
32 34 Eagle (ID) Beat Rocky Mountain (48)
33 35 Bixby (OK) Beat F5
34 32 East HS (CO) Lost to Valor
35 33 Monarch (CO)  
36 36 New Trier (IL) Beat Glen Ellyn
37 37 Marquette HS (WI) Lost to Northshore
38 Unr Fairfield Prep (CT) Beat Greenwich (13)
39 Unr Xaverian Bros. (MA) Tied BC High (11)
40 43 Jesuit New Orleans (LA) Beat Brother Martin (46)
41 38 Weymouth (MA)  
42 40 Marvin Ridge HS (NC)  
43 37 Regis Jesuit (CO)  
44 44 Detroit Central Cath. (MI) Beat Birmingham
45 41 Kahuku (HI)  
46 42 Belmont HS (MA)  
47 45 Medina (OH)  
48 47 Staples (CT)  
49 49 Christian Brothers (NJ) Beat Union
50 46 Brother Martin (LA) Lost to Jesuit NOLA (43)