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Canada Women’s XVs – October 2026 Updates

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Kevin Rouet Names 31 Players for England Matches – Rori Wood, Caroline Crossley, Piper Logan Added

Coach Kevin Rouet has named 31 players for the two match series with England taking place in Toronto on October 16th and then Ottawa on October 23rd. There are a few new players coming in, Caroline Crossley as a loose forward, Rori Wood returns from injury and becomes another option at prop, Piper Logan in the backs gets her first chance at a XVs cap. Brittany Kassil who received a red card and suspension after the Scotland match is now back available to play. Some players missing from the Europe tour include Claire Gallagher, Maya Montiel, Cassandra Tuffnail, Sarah-Maude Lachance, Taylor McKnight.

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U20 Challenger Cup 2026 – Canada vs Belgium

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Belgium 41-14 Canada: Canada Crash in Second Half

Canada were leading at the half 7-6 but came off the rails in the second half as they left their focus in the change room at halftime. Two yellow cards and a slew of mental errors made it difficult to get any momentum in the second half. It started with a casual wave at a pass from a defender that led to a yellow card, then defenders forgot to focus on the ruck and the Belgium player said, thanks very much, picked the ball up untouched and jaunted in for a try. Next was a penalty awarded to Canada at the Belgium 22, the kicker put the ball directly into goal and a key possession was lost. It was mental error after mental error leading to penalties for Belgium, tries and another yellow card for Canada. Then panic mode hit as the scoreline increased and time ticked away, more errors, running the ball out from the 22 instead of clearing it, a double skip pass that’s intercepted and run back the length of the field for a try. It wasn’t that Belgium was a much better team, Canada self-inflicted much of the pain on itself in the second half. It will be interesting to see how they come out against Portugal in their next match, the championship is gone, but they can battle for a 3rd place finish. Canada face Portugal on Monday, October 12th.

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BC Rugby League Updates – October 5th 2026

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Overview of League Standings from Premier to U18

Peter is on vacation this week so I’ll just do a run through on the leagues from Premier to U18. The scores and tables are on the PlayHQ system, that’s the system that BCRU and Rugby Canada have switched to this season. The BCRU tables aren’t always up to date, for example in men’s BC Premier they still have the Ravens at 14 points instead of 15, we keep an accurate men’s BC Premier table here. The PlayHQ system can be accessed here.

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Kamloops Rugby Updates – October 2026

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Kamloops Match Reports by William Shaw: Senior Women Secure Road Win in South Surrey Against the Sharks

The early morning travels have started for the Senior Women from the Kamloops Rugby Club.

A 5:30 am meet up saw the Raiders load up and head to the South Surrey Athletic Park to go Shark hunting. The Bayside Sharks kicked off to the awaiting Raiders, and for the opening 5 minutes the two sides traded possession. This was due to a combination of great tackling from Kayla Comeau, jackling from Thea Flundra and poor execution at the hands of both squads.

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BC Rugby Weekend of October 3rd 2026

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BC Premier Week 4 Results: Westshore Clobber Bayside, Capilano Fall to JBAA, Ravens Fly Past CW, Burnaby Stunned by Meraloma, UVic Outlast Rowers

It was a week of high scores, comebacks and one upset. We had four of the five winners picked, the spreads weren’t that close and one upset. In total there were 419 points scored over 5 matches with the average winning margin 37 points.

Week 4 has arrived before the Thanksgiving break on October 10th. There are three undefeated sides and the JBAA v Capilano match will be one of the highlights this week. Westshore visit Bayside, Ravens visit the Island to take on CW, Burnaby travel to the Lomas and the Rowers host UVic.

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BC Premier Schedule 2026-27

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Men’s Premier 2026-27 Schedule, Results and Week 4 Standings

The BCRU have posted the 2026/27 schedules to PlayHQ, the new registration system. This is the schedule for the men’s Premier, there are 11 teams, 21 Rounds including bye weeks, each team plays 18 games, there are 99 matches in total. The season starts September 12, the winter break occurs between Round 11 on November 28th and Round 12 on January 16th, the regular season ends on April 10th.

During the season check the BCRU site for any last minute changes. We’ll also keep this post on the front page and updated with scores and standings.

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U20 Challenger Cup 2026 – Canada vs Namibia

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Canada Crush Namibia 95-6 in Opening Match of U20 Challenger Cup

It was one way traffic for most of the match as Canada ran in 15 tries and added 10 conversions. It was 52-6 at the half and Canada kept Namibia off the score sheet in the second half. There were a lot of positives from the match, Canada were winning the collisions, the off load game was working well and there is obviously some strike power in the starting back three as they scored seven tries. Perhaps the most satisfying is they kept Namibia out of the try zone, Namibia did have some possession inside the Canada 5 metres but strong team defence and some stellar individual defensive efforts kept Namibia from scoring a try.

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Kamloops Rugby Updates – October 2026

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Kamloops Match Reports by William Shaw: Senior Women and Men Kick Off Season With Wins

The Kamloops Rugby Club Senior Women and Men kicked off their season this past weekend at Exhibition Park in Kamloops. There was moody skies to start the morning, but the clouds burnt off and provided a sunny and warm day for watching and playing rugby, which was welcomed by the many KRC Alumni out in support of the Senior Squads on Alumni Day.

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Players in the News – September 2026

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Phil Mack to be Inducted into Victoria Sports Hall of Fame – Dinner and Ceremony on November 7th, 2026

There’s a certain amount of irony in posting about one of Canada’s greatest 7s players getting inducted into the Victoria Sports Hall of Fame a day after posting about Rugby Canada bringing someone over from Scotland to coach the Canada 7s team, but here we are. The induction ceremony is being held November 7th at the Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort, the HoF announcement is here, tickets can be purchased here. Phil not only had an outstanding career as a national team XVs and 7s player, a UVic and JBAA player, he had a remarkable record coaching. He led BC to a national title as a player/coach then went to the MLR and led the Seattle Seawolves to two back to back championships as a player/coach. He was part of the Rugby Canada coaching team first with the Pacific Pride academy then as Attack Coach with the senior XVs team. We’ve put a few photos from our archives below, also appended is the Greater Victoria Hall of Fame announcement.

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UBCOB Ravens – September 2026

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Second Half Déjà Vu Ravens 40 UBC 25
Report by Peter MacDonald

High level rugby was on full display at UBC on Saturday as five national team players returning from defeating the USA in Japan split and filtered into both teams joining strong squads, with the Ravens featuring some recent UBC grads and UBC a few former Ravens’ juniors.

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