GRR: Northern California
Excitement all-around in the Northern California single-school league as we had four games this past weekend.
Jesuit vs St. IgnatiusJesuit held off St. Ignatius 29-26 in a dramatic one. Coming off a nice win on Week 1, St. Ignatius got three tries from No. 8 Flynn O'Connell and gave thr Marauders trouble.
Northern California HS rugby just had its busiest weekend of the New Year, with the single-school competition kicking off its opening weekend.
The Marin Highlanders opened their Northern California season with a fairly emphatic 54-5 win over Elsie Allen.
This wasn't an easy outing by any means but it was made a bit easier thanks to some impressive finishing from fullback Zach Frender.
The Lamorinda club pulled off an impressive win this weekend, beating Bishop O'Dowd 34-19 in Northern California.
Northern California took both the U19 Boys and U16 Boys trophies at the Great Northwest Challenge state-based select-side tournament this weekend in Missoula, Mont.
Hosted by the Montana Youth Rugby Union and signaling a return to the old-style state-organization select-side event. In fact, The GNC did not allow anything other than state or regionally-based SRO teams.