GRR: Southern California
Los Angeles and Back Bay will play for the Southern California HS club title next week after both teams won nailbiting semifinals on Saturday.
Back Bay (ranked the #7 multi-school team by Goff Rugby Report) defeated #4 single-school team Fallbrook in overtime.
Southern California’s second HS season comes to a close over the next three weeks, with two divisions of quarterfinals starting this week.
The SoCal U18 club season has been split into Gold and Green conferences, with the Tri-Counties conference straddling the two.
Fallbrook clinched the South Gold conference in Southern California with a 43-20 defeat of the San Diego Young Aztecs Saturday.
Fallbrook was just coming off an instructive loss of 71-7 to Westlake HS of New Zealand, a game that had its positive moments but was a humbling experience to the Southern California team.
Fallbrook continued their run with an impressive 40-22 defeat of the San Diego Mustangs to move to 2-0 in the SoCal Club South Gold conference.
Here’s a quick look at Boys HS rugby along the West Coast.
It’s spring break in Oregon, so there’s only one round-robin, and that’s in the Varsity division. But there is more action elsewhere.