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Finals Weekend in Several States This Week

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Finals Weekend in Several States This Week

Xavier pictured, faces Gonzaga. Photo Frank Ancona.

It's playoff time around the nation. 

While we've already established some champions we've got more to find.

Tempe Wins Arizona, Capping Five-Peat

Brother Martin Holds Off Jesuit New Orleans to Win Louisiana

We didn't file a stand-alone report but F5 won Oklahoma over Bixby 35-15 marking only the second time in 26 years that a team not from Tulsa has won the state title.

Trevor Besabe, Ryan Martindale, Destry Lujan, DeShawn Tate, and Lukas Willette all scored tries for F5 and Jonny Haxton added 10 points from the boot.

Seniors Martindale and Colin Raynor led the way while Parker Stone in the forwards and Destry Lujan in the backs were very good.


Utah crowns state champs in their top tier, Tier 2, and Tier 3. The Tier 1 final is also a crucial game for seeding the Club division in the HS National Championships as both LCA and Cavemen are attending. Southern California sees San Diego Mustangs and Belmont Shore face off in the final (also a key seeding game for Nationals). Interestingly, San Diego has a team in the D2 final and the U16 final also.

Okapi and Key Biscayne play for the florida final ... and the U16 final ... and the U14 final. So they seem to have figured something out. This has become an intense rivalry and was a close game (KB winning) the last time they met.

Northern California has their finals in Premier and Gold divisions. Colorado has their final with Valor vs Denver East HS; Clayton plays Charlotte Tigers in the North Carolina final. 

All to Play for in NorCal

St. Thomas Aquinas won a fairly cose game over St. James to make the Kansas final.

"We've still got just a lot of things to fix, rugby IQ things like that," said Head Coach Tim Kluempers, who got some big work from No. 8 Carson Patrick and skipper Trevor Mogren as forwards while Carson Miller fixed some problems in the backs and Harrison Power was strong at scrumhalf. 

St. Martin's Kingfishers looked a bit more dominant in their semifinal win 36-12 over Wichita. 

Will Van De Ryt was excellent for Kingfishers as he led as a scorer, distributor, and goalkicker.


Meanwhile, we've got some weird things going on in Missouri. The original plan was to have a final this weekend between the top two teams. But, perhaps because of the uneven split between the teams in St. Louis and the teams in Kansas City, that got changes last-minute ... really last minute. So now we have St. Louis Jets vs Independence and SLUH vs Eureka as opposed to Jets vs SLUH with a final later in the day. It's caused some rankling, that's for sure.


Some other big games include Xavier vs Gonzaga, which is another Nationals seeding game, and ... St. Ignatius vs Charlotte Cardinals.

This happens periodically, but not often. This is the top-ranked HS Club team vs the top-ranked HS School-team. Why? Because they wanted to. They wanted to test themselves against the best. Yes there's a risk of injury but, hey, in the end this is about playing tough competition. Ignatius has played a variety of previous state champs. The Cardinals have played the 2024 defending school champs (Gonzaga) and Tier 2 champs (San Mateo). This is where the top teams roll.

Check back for scores:

Date Away Score Home Comp.
5/6 Brighton 12-81 Detroit Cent. Cath. Michigan
5/7 Xaverian Bros. 50-31 Milton HS Mass. IAA
5/7 St. John's Prep 15-49 BC High Mass. IAA
5/7 Ridgefield HS 33-58 Staples HS Connecticut
5/7 Pendleton 38-5 Westfield Indiana D1
5/7 McQuaid Jesuit 45-10 CNY Silverbacks Rugby NY
5/8 Weymouth 41-17 Brookline Mass. IAA
5/8 Glen Ellyn 17-31 Stallions Illinois
5/8 West Suburban 28-0 Thundercat Illinois
5/8 Christian Bros. 17-26 St. Augustine New Jersey
5/9 Trumbull 24-20 Greenwich Connecticut
5/9 Pulaski Roos 120-0 Green Bay 2 Wisconsin
5/9 Verona 3-42 North Shore Wisconsin
5/9 Eastside Exiles 14-10 MARC Palm Beach Wisconsin
5/9 Oshkosh 10-65 Green Bay Wisconsin
5/9 Oregon 0-28 Waukesha Wisconsin
5/9 De Pere 24-70 Fond du Lac Wisconsin
5/9 Chargers 0-28 Marquette Wisconsin
5/9 Pulaski Joeys 0-28 Fox Cities Wisconsin
5/9 Elkhorn 10-11 Muskego Wisconsin
5/9 Minetonka at Edina Minnesota
5/9 Fordham Prep 78-0 Play Rugby USA Rugby NY
5/9 Chaminade at Mt. St. Michaels Rugby NY
5/9 Pelham HS 3-29 Rye HS Rugby NY
5/9 Withrow 12-66 St. Xavier Ohio
5/10 CRC Berserkers 25-19 Crystal Lake Illinois
5/10 Payton Grizzlies 0-75 South Suburban Illinois
5/9 New Trier 26-0 Predators Illinois
5/9 Eagan 5-39 East Metro Minnesota
5/9 Delbarton 21-59 Union New Jersey
5/9 Chicago Lions 19-25 Naperville Illinois
5/9 Fenwick 6-57 Marist Illinois
5/9 St. Rita 41-0 Brother Rice Illinois
5/9 Neuqua 73-19 Taft Illinois
5/10 901 10-41 Raptor Tennessee Final
5/10 Xavier NY 30-21 Gonzaga Cross Border
5/10 St. Thomas Aquinas 0-50 St. Martin's Kansas Final
5/10 Freetown 31-5 Red River Minnesota
5/10 Detroit Cent. Cath. 47-5 St. Edward Cross Border
5/10 Georgetown Prep 33-12 Staples HS Cross Border
5/10 Chargers 14-19 Marian Indiana D1
5/10 Westfield 28-53 Bishop Dwenger Indiana D1
5/10 Brownsburg 29-39 Louisville Crash Indiana D1
5/10 St. Ignatius 12-43 Charlotte Cardinals Non-Conference
5/10 Fort Hunt 38-37 Richmond Strikers Virginia Final
5/10 Camas 20-32 Eastside Lions Wash. SF
5/10 Liberty 43-30 Rainier Highlanders Wash. SF
5/10 Summit 17-42 Eastside Tsunami Oregon SF
5/10 Bend Blues 43-38 Beaverton Oregon SF
5/10 Owyhee 31-29 Eagle HS Idaho Final
5/10 Thunder 7-25 SOC Raptors SoCal 3-4
5/10 Clayton 17-53 Charlotte Tigers NC Finals
5/10 SoPi vs Rattlesnakes NC T2 Final
5/10 Belmont Shore 24-27 SD Mustangs SoCal Final
5/10 Santa Monica vs SD Mustangs 2 SoCal D2 Final
5/10 SFGG 32-21 Granite Bay NorCal Prem. Final
5/10 Lamorinda 30-36 San Mateo NorCal Gold Final
5/10 Moscow at Ellensburg E. Wash.
5/10 Pendleton Ore. at Liberty Warriors E. Wash.
5/10 Flathead Valley 25-17 Yellowstone Montana
5/10 Missoula 28-0 Cascade Montana
5/10 Okapi 20-12 Key Biscayne Florida Final
5/10 St. Louis Jets 29-19 Independence Missouri SF
5/10 SLUH W-L Eureka Missouri SF
5/10 SLUH 26-14 St. Louis Jets Missouri Final
5/10 ND de la Salette 66-0 Morton Illinois
5/10 Orchard 26-18 Fairport Rugby NY
5/10 Grand Island 0-74 CNY Silverbacks Rugby NY
5/10 Canisius 0-45 McQuaid Jesuit Rugby NY
5/10 Cache Valley 10-70 Olympus Utah T3 Final
5/10 Provo 46-29 South Davis Utah T2 Final
5/10 LCA 31-36 (OT) Cavemen Utah Final
5/10 Valor 25-26 Denver East HS Colo. Final
5/11 Doylestown 47-0 Malvern Prep RugbyPA D1
5/11 Gregory the Great W-L St. Joseph's RugbyPA D1
5/11 Montgomery Co. vs Downingtown RugbyPA D2
5/11 Moon Area vs Elizabethtown RugbyPA D2
5/11 Corning at Kenmore Rugby NY
5/12 Taft at Saints Illinois
5/13 Chaminade at St. Anthony's Rugby NY
5/14 Weymouth at Milton HS Mass. IAA
5/14 BC High at Belmont HS Mass. IAA