MLR Round 6 saw 21 Canada eligible players in action, 10 starting and 11 in the reserves. Tyler Matchem and Kyle Steeves saw their first action in the reserves, Shane O’Leary got his first start, the first time a Canada eligible player started at #10 this season. Andrew Coe, Jack Shaw, Andrew Quattrin and Shane O’Leary scored tries.
Thanks to Peter Muirhead who put together these league tables for the weekend of March 22nd 2025. He’s included a playoff “snapshot” which will be updated each week as the standings change. He’s also added a new column “ROC” to monitor BC Rugby applied sanctions that need to be factored in to make the win/loss/points add up correctly.
There are 2 weekends of regular season left after this weekend, Week 15 and a Make-Up weekend in April. The playoffs start April 12th. A couple of teams are in must win scenarios in order to keep their playoff hopes alive, plus UBC v Meraloma features a battle for a first round playoff bye.
Comox Rapids U18 Girls in Scotland
The Comox Valley U18 girls team, the Rapids, are currently touring northern England and Scotland and doing quite well. They defeated Northern RFC, based in Newcastle, 24-22 in their first match. They then defeated Borders 59-5 in Melrose, Scotland and are finishing their tour up in Edinburgh. You can follow their tour on their Instagram account.
The UBC Thunderbirds finished the final Women’s Rugby 7’s tournament of the year with a 5-0 record to go unbeaten over the 2025 season and win their third straight Canada West championship Saturday afternoon at Willoughby Stadium at the Langley Events Centre in Langley, B.C.
Thanks to Peter Muirhead who put together these league tables for the weekend of March 15th 2025. Tables ordered by points per game. Note these are the unofficial standings, the official competition page is maintained by the BCRU.
There were 25 Canadian players in action in Round 5 of the MLR, 8 starting and 17 in the reserves. It was the first appearance for Kaden Duguid and Gabe Casey in the match 23.
Phil Smith has come up with a great resource for high school rugby on the Island and in BC. It’s a newsletter “Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia”. We’ve included a link below to download the full .pdf version which is formatted and includes photos. We’ve also copied some of the text below for a quick read.
Only 3 more weekends of regular season play after this weekend, time is running out for teams trying to capture the last playoff spot while near the top of the standings UBC and Lomas battle for the #2 playoff ranking and a quarter-final bye.
A couple of recent announcments from the BCRU this week. They’re changing the Provincial Regional Championships (PRCs) to make it a higher level competition. They’re reducing the competition to 4 regions, basically Island, Vancouver, Valley, Interior. In previous years each region would put in multiple teams from sub-regions diluting the talent from each region. In order to facilitate full participation and create a selection tool they’ve created a new tournament, the PRL (Provincial Regional League) which would include the sub-regions within the regions. It will also act as a selection tool for the PRC teams. The PRL takes place in June and the PRC in July.