Thanksgiving Weekend: UVic Defeat TWU in Coastal Cup Match 54-10
UVic should maintain their #3 national university ranking after a comprehensive win over TWU on Saturday. Robb McCaghren was on hand capturing it in photo and video. He caught one of the Vikes tries in slow motion. It was scored by #8 Robert Reid, nicknamed the baby rhino by UVic announcers. I believe it’s his second year and he’s one to watch. Last season, as a rookie, he played both hooker and loose forward for the Vikes. He’s out of Oak Bay high school and made Phil Smith’s Island XV list as the best high school #8 on the Island in 2025.
The video is below or watch the longer version with music on Robb’s Instagram account.
It’s Thanksgiving weekend and hence no BC Premier league action taking place. The only Premier team in action was UVic taking on TWU at Wallace Field at 2:30pm in the three university Coastal Cup competition. After this weekend UBC are 3-0, UVic 2-1 and TWU 0-4. In terms of qualification for the University Championship hosted in November by TWU this match won’t have a bearing, TWU as host get a berth automatically. The winner of the UVic vs UBC home and away series determines BC’s other berth. Currently UBC lead that head to head by +10. The latest men’s University rankings have Guelph #1, UBC #2, UVic #3. It indicates how broken the current qualification system is when either the #2 or #3 ranked team will miss the 8 team national championship.
PREGAME
As far as today’s match UVic should have the upper hand but TWU are improving each game since their opening 66-0 loss to UBC. UVic are missing Cooper Coats, Michael Oughtred, Muiredach Casey, Josh McIndoe. They do have Alex Gamage back in the roster.
TWU aren’t in the BC Premier so we haven’t been following their rosters but there are some familiar names Tim Zimmer, son of MP Bob Zimmer from the Prince George area. Dallin Westerlund who was on the Canadian Howlers tour and played for BC U19 this summer.
The match is live streamed by UVic, link below.
Coastal Cup Results
UBC 66- TWU 0
UVic 45 – TWU 24
UBC 42 – TWU 21
UBC 36 – UVic 26
UVic 54 – TWU 10
UVic Roster
1 Jack Marshall
2 Jeffery Young
3 Brendan Kim
4 Carter Ebrahim
5 Alex Gordon
6 Jaxson Jones
7 Aiden de Wit
8 Robert Reid
9 Reece Thompson
10 Jack Driscoll
11 Alex Gamage
12 Grady Watt
13 Lockhart MacGregor
14 Keegan Neary
15 Greg Leitch
16 Grady Curran
17 Kale Jones
18 Brendan Christian
19 Seb Isherwood
20 Gavin Kelly
21 Lachlan Crooks
22 Luke Hamilton
23 Thoran Koyote
TWU Roster
1. Tim Zimmer
2. José Maria Galicia Guasch
3. Santiago Acuña
4. Tristan Walde
5. Dallin Westerlund
6. Caleb Whitton
7. Benard Bjorndal
8. Caleb Graham (C)
9. Colton Boychuk
10. Bernabé Sosa Rey
11. Liam Olafsen
12. Jacob Goroza
13. Ken Paul
14. Beckham Dickie
15. Liam De Goede
16. Adam El Arnaout
17. Joe Goroza
18. D’Angelo Bothma
19. Martin Zubiri
20. John Paterson
21. Brady Howlett
22. Cayden McCullough
23. Tyson Brice
University Rankings
