On The Road Again: Ravens 33 – Pacific Pride 26

by Peter MacDonald

The Ravens and their west side club mates, the Lomas and Kats, were all sent packing by the Park Board this week to allow some field maintenance to be done so it was off to Langley on short notice thanks to the generosity of Langley RFC and the hard work of Ravens’ club president Frank Fekete. First the Rippers played a hard fought game with Langley ending with a crowd pleasing come from behind win for the home side, 40-33. Next up were the two touring premier sides who put on a top class show before the appreciative sun splashed crowd.

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BC Premier Week 9 Results & Rosters: Pride Edged by Ravens, Caps Top CW, UVic Fall to Seattle, Lomas Defeat Bays, UBC Paddle Rowers, Burnaby Cruise Past Westshore

[ed. note some of these results are from the BCRU, there may be errors.]

A note on location changes this weekend, unfortunately the city parks board wouldn’t give the west side clubs Meralomas, Kats and Ravens permits for this weekend. Lomas have moved their Premier game to Bayside and Ravens have moved their game to Langley.

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Ravens Forwards the Difference: Ravens 31 – Lomas 14

by Peter MacDonald

On a cool day at Connaught the players and supporters were happy to get back to rugby after another long break and they were curious to see how the two long time westside rivals were now stacking up against one another. As it turned out the Ravens still have the upper hand thanks on this day to the strong play of their forward pack.

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BC Premier Week 8 Results: Caps Edge Lakers; Ravens Top Lomas; CW Battle UBC; Bays Fall to Vikes; Pride Blast Westshore; Rowers Sunk in Seattle

BC Premier is back after 3 weeks of down time due to holiday, weather, Canada 7s. Note the rosters are listed to show last roster/change this week.

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Capilano Rugby Club Features in Two North Shore News Articles: Elias Ergas North Shore Player and Black Ferns Visit Club

The North Shore News ran a couple of articles that featured the Capilano Rugby Club. The first one featured Elias Ergas, a North Shore player, the second article focused on the visit to the Capilano Rugby Club by the Black Ferns.

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BC Premier Week 7 Rosters & Predictions: Rowers @ Caps; Bays @ Pride; CW @ Westshore; Lomas @ Seattle; Burnaby @ Ravens; Vikes @ UBC : UPDATE BCRU CANCELS MATCHES DUE TO WEATHER

The BCRU has cancelled all games in the province due to weather. It’s seen as a heavy handed decision by some who were prepared to go ahead with their matches, some fields were open. UBC had their field open and handled similar situations during the University Championships in November/December.

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BC Premier Week 6 Results & Rosters: T-Birds Clobber Bays, CW Edge Pride, Caps Draw With Lomas, Ravens Narrowly Defeat Seattle, Burnaby Sink Rowers, Vikes Pummel Westshore

It’s week 6 of the 11 week regular season, with 3 more weekends of playoff action for the top 6 teams (7 as the Pride aren’t eligible for post season).

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Ravens Dig Hole and Crawl Out to Win: Ravens 27 – Caps 18

by Peter MacDonald

On an intact Klahanie pitch with intermittent very light rain falling the Caps looked in mid-season form to start this game coming out of the winter break. The Ravens not so much. Some credit is due to the Ravens though for keeping the score to 15-0 Caps after 15 minutes as the Caps had all the ball and were firing forward pods and quick ball through the backs at them in waves. A saving tackle by Aaron McLelland and some big hits by centre Sean Pyle kept the Caps onslaught from getting completely out of control.

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BC Premier Week 5 Results & Rosters: UBC Topple Pride in Friday Evening Match; Seattle Fall to Burnaby; Ravens Top Caps; CW Edge Vikes; Lomas Paddle Rowers; Bays Defeat Westshore

The men’s Premier restarts this weekend at Week 5. We have the predictions and rosters below. The women’s Premier starts Week 1, we have the matches listed below and will post rosters if and when they’re made available.

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BC Men’s Premier Resumes This Weekend – Women’s Premier Kicks Off

With the second half of the season starting this weekend, it seemed a good idea to do an early preview/review article. Our usual prediction article will be on Friday once we have the rosters in.

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