High School Boys
Championship games are on the horizon in Northern California, with two tight rivalries on the slate.
Northern California PremierSFGG hadn’t played De La Salle in the regular season, the game had been postponed and never made up. But the result turned out OK as those two teams ended up #2 and #3 in the semifinals and played each other anyway.
Well we have to apologize for the lateness of these rankings.
We had to make a lot of moves, and that included working closely through the teams in and around Connecticut, forcing us to throw out one result to make it work. That, along with a little bit of your editor being under the weather, it took a while.
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.