Torrey Pines Slams Cathedral
Torrey Pines defeated Cathedral Catholic 46-7 in SoCal's Varsity Red league, pulling off an excellent display against a very good Cathedral team.
With an undefeated league record on the line, Torrey Pines needed to play well against Cathedral, and they did, hardly putting a foot wrong against their San Diego-area rivals.
Torrey Pines is a large public school with an excellent sports record across the board. Cathedral is a well-funded private school less than three miles away, and whose football team just won the state championship.
LCC Defeats Cathedral
La Costa Canyon Mavericks hosted the Cathedral Catholic Dons in a Southern California, single school Red division game this past Friday night.
This game promised to be an intriguing matchup, because Cathedral had lost the prior week in a nail biting finish to Saint Augustine, and needed a win or at a minimum, a loosing bonus point to keep their playoff hopes alive. BYU was in San Diego to play SDSU the following day, and head coach David Smyth was on the sideline together with numerous BYU players, to watch the action.
Three of the starters, Sean Lumkong and Justin Petersen for LCC, and Ryan James for Cathedral Catholic, are expected to be on the HS All American team on tour this spring, so this promised to be a quality game.
Ramblin' Jesters Young 7s Player of the Month - Ryan James
With the demands on a high school rugby player’s time, rugby 7s has to work hard to find a place, and certainly that hard work is worth it when you find a special talent.
Cathedral Catholic wing/center Ryan James is certainly one who was identified early as one who could make an impact in 7s as well as 15s, and he will help lead the Eagle Impact Rugby Academy team at the Las Vegas Invitational in March in the opening tournament of the new NAHS 7s Series.
The Ramblin’ Jesters is an elite invitational sevens team in the grand tradition of the Barbarians and other compilation teams, operating out of London in the UK. |
SoCal Varsity Red - San Diego Latest
Torrey Pines defeated Poway 35-7 to move to 2-0 in the Southern California Varsity Red San Diego division.
Torrey Pines joins La Costa Canyon, which beat Del Norte this weekend. Also winning was St. Augustine, which edged Cathedral 28-24. St. Augustine scrumhalf Ethan McVeigh and flyhalf James Downey worked very nicely together and set up center Andrew Alves for some big runs. Alves scored two tries and added a third.
Cathedral Downs Del Norte
The Cathedral Catholic Dons rugby team opened the 2017 regular season with a tough victory over the Del Norte Nighthawks Friday night.
From start to finish both teams displayed extraordinary effort as both teams moved up and down the field on a rainy night in San Diego.
The Del Norte 10-12 combination of Jared Ho and John Hale started the game with a series of intense punches up the middle which the Cathedral defense was able to repel. Del Norte repeatedly executed these moves eventually scoring. Cathedral fought back with outstanding phase play among the forwards, resulting in tries of their own. Both sides moved the length of the field during the first half trading tries allowing Del Norte to be on top at the half, 21-17.
