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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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Atlantic Selects – March 2022

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Atlantic Selects to Face New England Free Jacks Development Team in Boston

[ed. good to hear from Jamie Cudmore again. Also kudos to them for putting out their long list, hint, hint, BC.]

The Atlantic Selects, Atlantic Canada’s renewed high performance Men’s Rugby team, announced today their 2nd ever match. The team was founded in the fall of 2021 to help rebuild high performance Rugby in Atlantic Canada, and travelled to Toronto in October to play the Toronto Arrows.

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Capilano Rugby – March 2022

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Capilano RFC Match Reports: Caps Host Nanaimo

from Capilano Rugby

Caps welcome Nanaimo RFC

Caps always enjoy playing Nanaimo Hornets. The Snowcaps likewise enjoy playing the Yous to Bees over 40’s. The two clubs have much in common and several ex Capilano players have played for the Hornets. Someone said to me yesterday it looks like an inter squad game. Both teams wear similar colours and the rivalry is strong but respectful! Capilanos are sad to see Nanaimo out of the Premier Division and hope to see them back in soon. The last time I remember them visiting they played a great game at the Premier level and the game was won by Caps at the final whistle by a Jeremy Simon drop kick. That was a classic game and today’s first division match was a cracker also! I will defer to my colleague Steve Feenstra to report on that game. Also it is great to have Jayne Isherwood cover the Women’s action as well. It is too big a job for one person and we are far better covered now.

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From the Editor’s Desk – March 2022

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More on the Rugby Canada High Performance Program Review: Letters from Chris Le Fevre and John Lecky

[ed. I’ve added another letter from John Lecky, his comments can be viewed in this .pdf document.]

Not that I particularly wanted to resurrect this as, I think, most have given up on Rugby Canada and just want to concentrate on grassroots rugby, club rugby and supporting provincial rugby. However I did say I would publish this open letter from Chris Le Fevre to the Chair of Rugby Canada, Sally Dennis. Chris Le Fevre is a former Rugby Canada board member and was also on the iRB (World Rugby) Executive Council. The letter is posted below (as an image).

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UBCOB Ravens – March 2022

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Ravens Fall on Last Play: UBC 27 – Ravens 26

by Peter MacDonald

This much anticipated game started off with a bang, actually three bangs, as tries lit up the scoreboard one after the other in the first few minutes. The UBC kickoff went straight out leading to a scrum centre to the Old Boys. From there fullback Aaron McLelland sped through a hole on the right side and fed it back inside to scrum half Alex Ball for a try in the first minute. UBC shook that off a second later when, after the UBC kickoff, flanker Owen Ruttan blocked a clearing kick and Frank Carson chased it down, picked up and touched down for a very quick reply. And, not long after that, UBC added another try as scrum half Jack Carson got away and, keeping it in the family, sent flanker Donald Carson in for the try, 12-7 UBC at 8 minutes.

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MLR 2022 – Week 8

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MLR Week 8 Results: NOLA, New England, Houston, LA, Toronto Claim Wins: Austin and New England Top Conferences – VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

March 26

Old Glory DC 22 v New Orleans Gold 31
@ Segra Field 12pm PT

DC are last in the East at 0-6. Jake Ilnicki starts at tighthead, Luke Campbell at #8, Doug Fraser on the wing.

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BC Rugby Weekend of March 26th 2022

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BC Premier Weekend Results: Burnaby Edge Bays, Vikes Paddle Rowers, UBC Nudge Ravens

Our prediction accuracy went down from 92% to 86% last week and it may take a further hit this week with 3 close matches. The Ravens v UBC match is a tough one to call, UVic can always surprise and the Bays are starting to turn things around.

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