Our prediction record took a hit this weekend, only going 3 for 5, and putting our season record at 25 out of 29. We went from 92% accuracy to 86%. The Bays’ grizzly decided to roar and they notched their first win over the visiting Lomas, also Caps pounded the undefeated CW team. First Bays win and first CW loss, who would have guessed?
The original RC press release mentioned a trip out east to play the Arrows Academy and the Atlantic Selects but that’s pending budget considerations.
from Capilano Rugby
Saturday March 12 – Results
Premier Women
Capilano 10 – 56 CW
3rd Division Men
Capilano 7 – 38 Brit-Lions
1st Division Men
Kamloops 19 – 24 Capilano
from Mike Devlin
The Palmer Cup is dedicated to the late, great Burnaby Lake Alum Doug The Bear Palmer. Doug tragically passed away in France while on tour with the guys, cheering on Canada at the 1999 World Cup. The Bear also had an affiliation to the Meraloma Rugby Club. The results of the regular season games between Burnaby Lake and Meraloma are tallied to crown the winner. The club with the most wins takes the cup. After almost a decade of dominance by the Lomas, the BLRC have had possession of the Palmer Cup since 2011. The results from the Fall season matches saw the BLRC up 2 wins to 1 draw, meaning that the first Blue + White win of the day would retain the Palmer Cup via tie while a 2nd would win the Palmer Cup and return it to the BLRC trophy case. Burnaby Lake took 3 out of 4 on the day.
There’s a 7s tournament on Friday, hosted at Westshore RFC, featuring high schools from across the Island, competing in four divisons, Senior Boys, Senior Girls, Junior Boys, Junior Girls. Thunder Rugby is also entering an Indigenous team.
It’s shades of the Women’s 7s program and John Tait again. This time it’s Sandro Fiorino who’s getting the axe. Again it appears to be a player led revolt.
Spain last qualified for the World Cup in 1999, congratulations to them. It prompts some self reflection for Canada who won’t be at the World Cup in 2023 for the first time in history.
Matches are streamed live at therugbynetwork.com
March 12
Rugby ATL 29 v Austin Gilgronis 14
@ Silverbacks Park – 12pm PT
The top two teams in the league go head to head.
Atlanta at 3-1 feature Matt Heaton at openside with Conor Keys on the bench.
Austin don’t have any Canadians in the side.
Matt Heaton scored a try in the game for Atlanta.
Burnaby Lake 21 v Meraloma 12 @ 14:30
Referee: Saro Turner Referee 2: Jamie Dopson
Venue: Burnaby Lake Rugby Club
We called Burnaby +5 and it was Burnaby +9. Burnaby go 2-2 for 7th place, Lomas 1-4 in 9th place. Next week Burnaby visit Westshore while Meralomas visit James Bay.
from Capilano Rugby
Thank you to all three of our match report writers this week. Jayne Isherwood, John Langley and Steve Feenstra. All the reports can be found below.