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Senior Women’s XVs – April 2022

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Top 40 List Published by Rugby Canada – Training Camp on Vancouver Island

[ed. I remember when Francois Ratier ran the women’s XVs, he would always get in touch when holding a camp on the Island. His open style of communication was refreshing and of course Canada went on to win silver at the 2014 World Cup under his direction. Now it’s more of a closed shop, no training schedule, no advance notice to media, no photo ops.]

from Rugby Canada

Rugby Canada’s Senior Women’s 15s squad is currently in the midst of a week-long Top-40 training camp on Vancouver Island.

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Canada U18 – April 2022

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Rugby Canada Lists 58 Players at U18 Camp in Guelph: A Breakdown of BC Numbers by School and Club

Rugby Canada released their 58 player list for the East v West camp taking place this week in Guelph, Ontario. The RC press release is appended below. It’s interesting to breakdown the BC numbers.

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BC Rugby Playoffs – April 2022

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BCRU Clarifies Playoff Scenarios Across All Divisions

from BCRU

The final round of regular season fixtures now played, close to 30 Clubs have booked their spots in the BC Rugby Senior League Playoffs with some mouth-watering clashes coming up over the next few weeks.

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Rugby Canada Coaching News – April 2022

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Sean White Named Assistant Coach of Men’s Seven’s Team

In the “about time” department, a Canadian player and coach has been named to the senior men’s coaching team. It’s as assistant coach but hopefully it’s just a matter of time before he takes over the top job in sevens. Next step will be to name an assistant XVs coach to take over Kingsley’s job when he leaves.

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MLR 2022 – Week 10

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MLR Week 10 Results: Wins for Toronto, New England, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, LA: VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

April 9

Toronto Arrows 32 v Old Glory DC 27 @ York Lions Stadium 9am PT

Toronto are 4th in the East at 4-4. It’s an all Canadian front row this week with Keith, McRogers and Rowland. Second row is Mike Sheppard and Paul Ciulini, loose forward Kyle Baillie and James O’Neill. Riley de Nardo starts at scrum half, an all Canadian backline with du Toit, Richardson in the centres, Voralek and Sheridan on the wings and McCann at fullback. A season high 13 Canadian starters. On the bench Quattrin, Rumball, Nott, McRorie, Jones, Kelly.

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Singapore 7s 2022

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Canada Finish Tied for Last in Singapore: Vancouver Pool C Canada, South Africa, Australia, Spain – Match Videos

Canada ran out to their worst result this season finishing last, tied with Scotland for 15th/16th place. They receive only one series point. Fiji won the tournament defeating NZ in the final.

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BC Rugby Weekend of April 9th 2022

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BC Premier Results: Caps Top Rowers, Ravens Edge CW, UBC Drop Lomas, Pride Defeat Burnaby, Vikes Eliminate Bays

This is the final week of the regular season and the quarter-final matchup possibilities are coming into focus. UBC will finish #1 and will host either JBAA or Lomas. The 2nd/3rd place battle is a little more murky as the BCRU has CW and Ravens tied on Points Ratio .833 [ed. BCRU have now removed the standings table] but CW listed at 24 points and Ravens at 21 points apparently due to a points reduction in a Ravens match, an action that’s being contested by the Ravens. It’s likely the winner of the CW v Ravens match will finish in 2nd pending any competition committee decisions. Burnaby and Capilano are vying for 4th/5th, again complicated by the uneven schedule. UVic looks good for 6th, Rowers 7th and Bays and Lomas battling it out for 8th.

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Burnaby Lake – April 2022

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Burnaby Weekend Match Reports: Wins in Men’s Premier, 1st Div, 3rd Div and Women’s 1st Div

from Mike Devlin

BLRC on the road to Kamloops by Simon Smoldon

This past Saturday the 1st Div Men & Women of the BLRC boarded the 6am bus to Kamloops for 2 highly anticipated games of rugby at the fantastic new clubhouse & fields that the Raiders have set up. For many of our new players this was a 1st time experience & many were in awe at the landscape & vistas that the locals take for granted…

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UBCOB Ravens – March 2022

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Ravens Fortunate To Win: Ravens 24 – Pacific Pride 17

by Peter MacDonald

A tough game against the Pride went the Ravens’ way at the end but the Pride gained big respect for taking the game to the Ravens all day long. With the score tied 17-17, and five minutes left, the Ravens’ fullback Aaron McLelland was served up a room service high clearing kick which he fielded centrally 35 metres out from the Pride line. Moving right and scanning things he made a gap and it was sayonara as he took a direct line at top speed to score the winning try. The Pride could have tied it up three minutes later but for a saving tackle by fly half Jesper Mellish so the Ravens ran out winners in a game that the Pride controlled for much of the day.

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MLR 2022 – Week 9

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MLR Week 9 Results with Canadian Stats: Tries by Andrew Quattrin, Foster Dewitt, Ben Lesage; Michael Smith Top Tackle Stat

April 1

Utah Warriors 25 v San Diego Legion 40 @ Zions Bank Stadium 7pm PT

Utah in 6th place in the West have no Canadians in the roster.

San Diego, second in the West, feature Michael Smith as starting openside with Jason Higgins as reserve scrum half.

Michael Smith was the top tackler in the game with 22 tackles made.

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