GRR: North Carolina
The chase to the top in North Carolina's school season is a tight one with Hough, South Meck, Laney HS, and Marvin Ridge all unbeaten.
Yes, yes, South Meck has a tie, but they didn't lose. Right behind that four is Charlotte Catholic at 2-1-1.
While some of these teams are pretty well established, one of the new kids in town is Marvin Ridge.
Laney HS improved to 3-0 and South Mecklenburg improved to 3-0-1 in North Carolina school action over the weekend, and both are chasing Hough, which also won.
Both Laney and South Meck expected close games and both got them. Hough, meanwhile, won relatively comfortably over Clover HS, as expected, to improve to 4-0.
Well, well ... here we are; the high school season is well and truly engaged with 10 Boys HS games this week and more to come.
The SCIRF in Southern California and the School season in North Carolina are ongoing. In a week the SoCal Youth Rugby kicks off with their school-oriented season (before, like North Carolina, they switch to club), and a week after that Florida gets going.
After the Winter Break the North Carolina school league comes back with six games this weekend.
North Carolina's single-school team league kicked off this past weekend as the league of 13 teams is in action.
Not all the teams started the season ready to go, as Clayton/Corinth and Caps/Broughton both won via forfeit. Meanwhile, South Mecklenburg and Charlotte Catholic ran out to a 21-21 tie.
The two winners in actual results were Hough and Marvin Ridge.