GRR: All-Stars
The Boys all-tournament team has been named for the New England Regional All-Star Tournament held this past weekend.
Not surprisingly, several players from the Greenwich program, which won the Boys Varsity, are on the list.
Eagle Impact Rugby Academy, (EIRA), a network of development academies set up by Salty Thompson (HSAA Head Coach), and Michael Engelbrecht, (HSAA and U20s assistant coach), is beginning to make a difference in high performance age grade rugby.
The Washington state Loggers Boys select side split their two games with visiting Down HS from Northern Ireland Saturday.
In a tense Varsity game, the Loggers aged Down 15-12, while in the JV game, Down’s ends emerged victorious 20-12.
Down moves on to the Canadian leg of their trip, as they travel to Victoria BC.
Paced by the play of Mateo Gowland, Yoh Nakayama, No. 8 Jack Weigold, and center Michael McTiernan, Greewnich/Fairfield County won the Boys Varsity bracket of the New England Regional All-Star Tournament (RAST) Sunday in Devens, Mass.
The Vermont Youth Rugby girls team won the Northeast Regional All-Star Tournament Sunday, beating Massachusetts and Connecticut in a round robin.