GRR: Utah Youth Rugby
Cavemen defeated LCA 36-31 in sudden-death overtime to win the Utah Youth Rugby Boys Teir 1 championship.
This was a rematch of a game that saw a 5-5 tie the last time Cavemen and LCA played.
In a back-and-forth, wild game, the teams traded tries throughout the first half.
Top Utah HS clubs Cavemen and LCA met Friday night and In a result at once very much expected and at the same time quite surprising.
The teams tied, which is the part that's not surprising, because both sides have shown equal quality this year.
HS rugby was relatively quiet around the middle chunk of the country this weekend as Easter slowed things down.
UtahHowever, we did see Herriman produce an emphatic win over Highland 60-28. Herriman led 60-7 until late. Kaden Sturgis scored two tries, both on interceptions, while Logan Youngblood and Mote Kinikini showed well.
The top two teams in Utah in #7-ranked school team Herriman and #4-ranked Cavemen met up Saturday evening in Utah league play, and it was the Cavemen who came away victors.
It was Senior Night for Cavemen and they were recognizing 21 seniors, most of whom had been with the Cavemen/American Fork program since early middle school.
Two of the top teams in Utah met up this past weekend with LCA beating Herriman 31-22.
Herriman came in a bit beat up, with a few injuries. They also were without their two captains, one with injury and one (Ryker Syddall) with at the Rosslyn Park School Sevens in the UK with the Rebel Rugby Academy.