GRR: Granite Bay
The Jesuit HS and Granite Bay HS rugby teams practiced together over the weekend in order to prepare for the Boys HS Rugby National Championships.
Jesuit will be in the single-school bracket, and Granite Bay will be defending their HS Club title. The two teams, who are both based in the Sacramento area, trained together to get ready.
Jesuit HS of Sacramento closed out the regular league season with a road victory over Granite Bay.
It was a tight, contentious, and ultimately intriguing day in Northern California HS rugby Saturday.
Jesuit, Danville, and Granite Bay won in the Northern California Premier league, and two had kind of a rough time of it.
Granite Bay moved to 3-0 in the Premier League with a tough 26-19 victory over Mother Lode.
Granite Bay logged an important victory in Rugby NoCal's Premier League this past weekend, defeating the Solo Falcons in a curtain-raiser for the Cal v UBC game.
Playing at Witter Rugby Field was an experience for all of the players, but this was also an important league game for both.