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A Player’s Perspective: Canada to NZ – Part 3

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From Canada to New Zealand – Playing Rugby Abroad in Taranaki Part 3: Noah Interviews Callum Botchar

by Noah Bain

Hello again, and thanks for tuning in to BCRN. Congrats to those named for the BC Bears squads and good luck in your comps this summer. I am excited to watch from afar! Another congrats to the many of those being named to PR 7’s squads. That is huge accomplishment and is sure to be an action packed few weeks of competition with many Canadians going. Lots of North American Rugby to look forward to this summer, exciting times! Moving forward, this article is going to be formatted a little differently than previous ones.

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MLR 2023 – Week 17

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MLR Week 17 Recap: One Week Left in Regular Season; New England and San Diego Top Conferences; Seattle, Houston, NY, DC in Post Season

There’s one week left in the regular season and the only question that remains about post-season play is who will have home field advantage in the East in the first round of the playoff, Old Glory (38) or New York (42). Old Glory hosts Atlanta in the final weekend while New York visit Utah. A win by NY will guarantee home field advantage. The East conference winner New England will host the winner of Old Glory v New York, while in the West San Diego will host the winner of Seattle v Houston.

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From the Editor’s Desk – June 2023

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Is a Canada Summer XVs Tour to Tonga in the Works for August; Coast to Coast Cup Starts Saturday

Tonga?

RNZ, Radio New Zealand, ran a story on Tongan rugby that states they’ll play a 2 game series against Canada after the Pacific Nations Cup and before leaving for the World Cup in France. Tonga play their final PNC match August 5th in Samoa, that leaves 3 weekends of pre-World Cup action remaining, August 12, 19, 26, to fit in a 2 game series. There’s been no corroboration from Rugby Canada or World Rugby yet.

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Canada U20 – June 2023

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Canada Lose Game #2 39-14 and Series on Aggregate 82-35: FULL MATCH REPLAY

It was 22-14 for USA at the half and they did all the second half scoring to win 39-14 and win on aggregate 82-35.

The USA opened the scoring 5 minutes in when their blindside flanker, Cameron McAlpine, beat three would be tacklers and scored. It was a try that shouldn’t have happened at this level and as the 82 point aggregate hints, defence was an issue for Canada. Noah Flesch saw a gap and tied the score up at 7 minutes, it was converted and Canada had a 7-5 lead. USA kicked a penalty at 30 minutes and were in the lead 8-7. Canada took back the lead with a score out wide by Craig Mitchell-Herman at 32 minutes, 14-8, and there was a glimmer of hope as the aggregate was now reduced to 16 with the conversion.

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Bayside Sharks – June 2023

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Bayside Sharks Senior Men’s Coaching Search:Extended to June 9th

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

– Lead the senior men’s rugby team and coaching staff on and off the field.
– Implement thorough practice plans (Tuesdays/Thursdays).
– Develop scalable individual player and team goals throughout the season.
– Proven ability to create a vision, establish buy-in, execute and drive performance to achieve results.
– Build and maintain strong and supportive relationships with the players, coaches, and managers.
– Work collaboratively with the club Executive, Director of Rugby, Senior Men’s Director, and Rugby committee.
– Where assigned, support the appointed Team Manager with all relevant off-field matters.

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MLR 2023 – Week 16

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MLR Week 16 Review: 37 Canadians in Action, 25 Starters, 12 Reserves – New England, San Diego, Old Glory, Seattle Clinch Playoff Spots

In the East New England (58) have clinched top spot and Old Glory (38) have clinched a playoff spot. New York (37) looks certain to claim the other playoff spot in the East with 2 weeks remaining. Atlanta (27) have a slim chance of catching NY. In the West it’s still a battle between San Diego (64) and Seattle (58) for top spot with San Diego having the lead. Seattle have clinched a playoff spot and just need a point in their remaining two games to ensure home field in the semi-finals. Houston (48) are leading the race for the final playoff spot with Utah (44) still in contention.

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BC High School Rugby – June 2023

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St. George’s Wins Boys AAA Title, Collingwood AA; Yale Wins Girls AAA Title, Shawnigan AA

The BC Provincial XVs wrapped up today with St. George’s winning the AAA, Collingwood the AA in the boys tournament, and Yale winning the AAA, Shawnigan the AA in the girls tournament.

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BC Bears Trial Match – June 2nd 2023

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BC Gold Defeat BC Blue 36-33: First Half Notes

BC Blue led 21-5 just before half time then the live stream went dead. Below are our notes from that time period. BC Gold obviously turned it around in the 2nd half, the BCRU might have an archive of the match they’ll upload to their YouTube channel. It’s wait and see.

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BC Players in NZ/Australia – Summer 2023

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BC Based Players Competing in the Southern Hemisphere This Summer: Sixteen and Counting – Also Match Report on Gabe Casey and Merlin M’Cloud at Sumner RFC

[ed. we’ve updated the list to 16 now since we’ve had new information come in, details below. Also add Brady Reeleder from UBC who is in Japan playing rugby for Tokyo Koryo RFC this summer.]

There are at least 13 BC based players who are playing rugby in NZ right now. There’s a few in Australia as well, three that we have listed. If you have a chance, follow their clubs on social media, we’ve included the links below. We’ll update this article with new info as it becomes available.

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