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The University of Utah Utes still think they have unfinished business.
After playing in both the DIA and Varsity Cup playoffs - during which they fell in the quarterfinals in both - and after battling back from suspension to finish a solid 2014-15 season, the Utes are thinking 7s.
This week's single-school rankings have been enormously difficult. Sure the #1 team won, so Gonzaga remains #1, but very little else is set. At the bottom of the top 50, we had so many teams vying for just a little bit of a look, that we expanded to 55. We just had to. We might retract to 50 again later, but we're at 55 now.
Beaverton managed to hold off Eastside for the second time in two weeks to win the Oregon state boys HS club championship Saturday.
Beaverton beat Eastside 26-22 on May 1 to ensure an undefeated league season, and then Saturday they held off their rivals 28-25 to win the state title in what Beaverton Coach Nathan Murray called "an epic battle."
St. Mary’s has been just two weeks removed from playing in the DIA 15s final, but this week they will look to pull off a championship double with the USA Rugby Collegiate 7s Championships in Denver, Colo.
It’s tempting to rely too heavily on a scoreline in telling the story of a match, and in the girls high school Oregon state championship, the 38-36 final does say a lot. Yes, the Beaverton vs. Grant was a tight, back-and-forth affair, but it was nearly a blowout.