High School Boys
Touring for rugby teams is one of the sport's great traditions, so over Easter break, 39 players and six coaches headed across the pond from Xavier in New York City to the ancestral home of rugby, the United Kingdom.
The team left hoping to improve skills and play top-level matches, and they were not disappointed.
Games remain very tight among the top teams in the Northeast.
Fordham Prep defeated Rye 30-28 over the weekend, scoring in the dying moments to secure the win. Cian O'Flynn, Patrick Kusic, David Holohan, and Tadhg O'Neill all scored tries, with O'Neill providing the rest of the points with his boot.
We're entering playoff time for a number of leagues and it's interesting to see the ranked teams do well.
While we at GRR World Headquarters are perfectly willing to admit when we've got it wrong, this time of year much, much more often than most, the rankings do pretty well.
Notre Dame de la Salette won the Boys Midwest Championships over the weekend, defeating Penn HS, St. Edward, and, in the final, Bishop Dwenger to take the trophy.
Georgetown Prep took home its first ever victory over Gonzaga, winning 18-5 Friday evening on the Prep South Field.