Ravens Defence the Difference
Ravens 50 – Bayside 17
Report by Peter MacDonald

On a beautiful Halloween day with kids trick or treating in the shops on Broadway, pickleballers out in full force by the pitch and boats on the waters of English Bay, the Bayside prems sailed into Jericho for the first time in many years. With the Ravens lacking drone surveillance of the visitors training sessions, who knew what frights the Bayside men might provide.

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BC Premier Week 7 Results: UBC Edge Burnaby, Westshore Fall to UVic, Rowers Paddled by Lomas, Capilano Top CW, Ravens Fly Past Bayside

It was 4-1 on the predictions, UBC had enough to just get by Burnaby with a +2 win. The rest of the matches went as expected with the winning teams all picking up bonus points.

It’s Week 7 of the BC Premier, JBAA have a bye, Caps, Burnaby, Bayside coming off a bye week. A couple of potential upsets on the cards and a few safe win predictions. Saturday is Halloween, there’s sure to be a few post match parties hosted by the rugby clubs.

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Ravens and Rowers Match Up in Good Spirit
Ravens 47 – Rowers 19
Report by Peter MacDonald

With four weeks and a bunch of turkey, ferry travel and elections since the last home game, it took a while for the supporters to roll in and for the Ravens prems to sharpen their game against a solid Rowers squad who hadn’t visited Jericho for a few years. A light rain contributing to a slick field and ball was another factor limiting crisp execution on the day. But despite some messy early lineouts, a second-best set scrum and some poor handling the Ravens prevailed with good defensive play at the breakdown and a strong forward attack with ball in hand.

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BC Premier Week 6 Results: Westshore Defeat CW, UBC Edged by UVic, Rowers Paddled by Ravens, Bays Conquer Lomas

The Bays remain the only undefeated team in the league at 4-0. A bittersweet day for UVic, they won the match but lost the university championship qualification to UBC, just coming up short on point differential.

It’s Week 6 of the BC Premier, the men’s national XVs team are apparently leaving on Sunday for their November tour, so some names will be missing. The big game is UVic v UBC to determine who goes to the national university championships. They are currently ranked #3 and #2 nationally but due to the current qualifying system, one of them will miss out while an unranked team from Alberta will qualify, two teams from Quebec, two from Ontario, one from Atlantic and host TWU. U SPORTS combines BC and Alberta as one region in women’s rugby.

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BC Premier Week 5 Results: UBC Pummel Sharks, Lomas Defeat CW, Ravens Grounded by Westshore, Burnaby Fall to Caps – UVic @ JBAA Postponed

Week 5 wraps up with one big upset and other results falling into the “as expected” column. Next week a couple of big matches, the UVic v UBC national university qualifier and the undefeated Bays test themselves at a resurgent Lomas. Also CW host Westshore and Ravens host Rowers.

It’s time to wrap up the turkey and get back to action. There are four games on tap, the JBAA v UVic match has been postponed until December 4th, we’ll see if the “super” El Niño brings warmer-than-average winter temperatures to BC as promised. The Rowers have a bye week.

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BC Premier Week 4 Results: Westshore Clobber Bayside, Capilano Fall to JBAA, Ravens Fly Past CW, Burnaby Stunned by Meraloma, UVic Outlast Rowers

It was a week of high scores, comebacks and one upset. We had four of the five winners picked, the spreads weren’t that close and one upset. In total there were 419 points scored over 5 matches with the average winning margin 37 points.

Week 4 has arrived before the Thanksgiving break on October 10th. There are three undefeated sides and the JBAA v Capilano match will be one of the highlights this week. Westshore visit Bayside, Ravens visit the Island to take on CW, Burnaby travel to the Lomas and the Rowers host UVic.

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