GRR: Northern California
This week Northern California gets the games going in earnest, with the DI, DII, and Premier leagues all in full flight.
Northern California’s extensive Boys DII league is offend running.
Winners this past weekend include Bellarmine Prep 40-14 over PITS, Napa 24-7 over Santa Rosa, Buchanan 21-19 over Clovis, and Bishop O’Dowd 59-5 over South Valley.
In a preseason clash between two teams from different divisions, Granite Bay held off the Pleasanton Cavaliers 17-14 this past weekend.
Granite Bay is GRR #4 HS club and finished 2nd in Northern California's club division in 2015 (the region has since realigned). So losing by three for Pleasanton was not a bad result at all.
The Sacramento Valley Rugby Foundation's 32nd Annual Kick Off Tournament (KOT) was yet another successful start to the high school rugby season.
The Kickoff Tournament in Sacramento gets the HS and younger seasons going in Northern California.
The tournament, thanks to grants and donations, has been able to refurbish the fields at Cordova HS in Rancho Cordova, Calif. The fields are in excellent shape and as a result, despite some HS teams holding their own preseason events, the KOT has added teams from last year.