GRR: Rugby Texas
Rugby Texas's Boys HS league started this weekend, although several teams will wait until next week.
Cy-Fair started off their official league campaign with a 45-7 defeat of Memorial.
Head Coach Kenneth Hepburn has a high percentage of players returning from last year, and in fact a core of players who have been with the program since its inception.
St. Thomas HS of Houston took a trip to Louisiana to play Brother Martin, and came back with a massive victory.
St. Thomas is returning 13 starters from last year, and their cohesiveness showed as they put Brother Martin to the sword 98-0. Senior captain Josh Pane scored four tries and junior openside flanker Griffin Maat scored four, including runs of 40 and 70 meters.
Houston, Texas will play hoist to Ruggapalooza, a preseason high school rugby tournament for teams in Texas.
The tournament, invoking ten teams, including one new to play this season, will be belt at the Houston Sports Park, the practice facility of the Houston Dynamo soccer team.
The Texas Boys HS season begins January 9 and spans four exciting months with the final on May 1.
St. Pius hosts Alamo Heights in a non-league game this coming weekend, and in fact it will be non-league games for a couple of weeks until the league play behind on January 29.
Lake Travis is playing Katy Friday Saturday night in the final of the Texas State 6A D2 football championship, and Westlake will play North Shore in the 6A D1 final.
While we don’t normally cover high school football in these pages, it’s worth noting that several key players on both Lake Travis and Westlake are from their very strong rugby programs.