BC Premier Week 16 Results: Pride Fall to Burnaby, UBC Soar Past Capilano, Meraloma Humbled by Vikes, Westshore Dominate Bays, CW @ Ravens Cancelled – Women’s Premier Thunderbirds Fall to Meraloma; CW Pummel Ravens

It’s Week 16 with most teams just having two more matches after this weekend, the exception UVic who will have three more matches. CW defaulted/conceded their match to Ravens due to injuries. We’ll see how the BCRU classifies this as it determines how many points are awarded to the Ravens, at the present it just says the match is “Cancelled”. UBC, Burnaby, UVic, Westshore were all winners this weekend. UBC and Westshore remained tied for 2nd/3rd behind Ravens. Burnaby and UVic continue battle for final playoff spot with head to head matchup next weekend.

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BC  Premier Make-Up Weekend Results: Vikes Edged by Caps, Pride Fall Hard to UBC

This is a make-up weekend which is why there are only two Premier matches. After this weekend all but two teams will have reached 14 games played with 3 games left, the exceptions are UVic who still have one extra match left and the Lomas who have already played 15 and are out of playoff contention. The Pride aren’t included as they only play a single round and aren’t playoff eligible.

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BC Premier Week 15 Results: Ravens Edge Capilano, Westshore Thump CW, UVic Lose to JBAA, UBC Pummel Meraloma – Women’s Premier Burnaby Defeat Abbotsford, Westshore Overcome CW, Ravens Fall to Meraloma

Week 15 has wrapped with most teams only having 3 matches left in the regular season. Next weekend is the Vancouver 7s so there will be a break in the action before Week 16 resumes on March 14th. Ravens maintain their lead at the top, Westshore and UBC remain in a battle chasing 2nd place and a quarter-final bye. Capilano and James Bay remain in 4th and 5th place respectively and Burnaby reclaim 6th place with UVic having work to do in order to make the post season. In women’s Premier Westshore closed the gap on 1st place Lomas while CW dropped to 5th and Burnaby rose to 3rd with very little separating the top 5 teams.

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Ravens Edge UBC in Classic Battle: Ravens 33 – UBC 29
Report by Peter MacDonald

Three weeks after an epic game at UBC these same teams took it up a notch at Jericho producing as good a regular season game as you will see in BC. The Ravens prevailed with five tries to UBC’s four but truly the teams are evenly matched and may be heading for a final meeting come playoff time.

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BC Premier Week 14 Results: Westshore Upset by Lomas, Bays Victors at Burnaby, UBC Fall to Ravens, Pride Pummel CW – Women’s Premier Ravens Defeat Seattle, Thunderbirds Soar Past Burnaby, Abby Crushed by CW, Westshore Upset Lomas

Week 14 has wrapped up, the Ravens remain top of the table with Westshore, UBC and Capilano in pursuit. In Women’s Premier some mismatches as UBC hit their title defending form but Lomas still top the table. There were numerous national team and MLR level players in the rosters this week Andrew Coe, Josiah Morra, Reegan O’Gorman, Callum Botchar, Noah Flesch, Mason Flesch, Emerson Prior, Mark Balaski, Guiseppe du Toit and more.

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Ravens and Rain Torrential: Ravens 55 – Burnaby 7
Report by Peter MacDonald

Much like the heavy rains that soaked the Jericho pitch before easing as the game wore on, the Ravens laid a deluge of first half tries on Burnaby before the play evened out in the second half.

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BC Premier Week 13 Results: Caps Upset UVic, Burnaby Fall to Ravens, Lomas Lose to Westshore, Bays Clobber CW; Exhibition TWU Trounced by Pride, Cal Bears Maul UBC – Women’s Premier Lomas Defeat Westshore, Seattle Crushed by CW, Burnaby Beat Ravens

It’s getting down to the last third of the season, most teams have 5 games left with 12 played. Burnaby and Lomas only have 4 games left and UVic and UBC have 6 games left. CW and Lomas are effectively eliminated from post season play and only UVic now has a chance to catch the top 6 going to the playoffs. In women’s Premier the Lomas show they’re deserving of the #1 ranking, impressive considering they’ve come up from Div 1 last year. There’s no rugby next weekend, Family Day weekend, but play resumes February 21st.

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Ravens Play to Their Strength for Late Win Ravens 24 – UBC 23
Report by Peter MacDonald

On a wet day at UBC it was another great game between these two fraternal clubs and it was the big brother that came away with the win despite being clearly outplayed for the first 60 minutes.

When UBC centre Alistair Marshall from first phase ball easily passed through the Raven backfield at 3 minutes to score from 40 metres out UBC took a lead they did not relinquish till the game’s last second. Then, with the Ravens’ Jake Ikeda off on a yellow card, UBC at 15 minutes tallied again with Stephen Webb stepping in and wrestling the ball down from close range, 12-0 UBC. The students’ fitness, speed, structure and ball movement had the Ravens stretched and taking on water but with Joe McNulty off on a yellow the Ravens had a moment of sustained attacking pressure and hooker Jake Tieney dove in, and with the easy conversion missed it was 12-5 UBC at 25 minutes.

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BC Premier Week 12 Results: Burnaby 24 – CW 12, Pride 26 – Lomas 26, Ravens 25 – UBC 24, UVic 40 – Westshore 19, Bays 39 – Caps 17; Women’s Premier Thunderbirds 27 – Ravens 10,  Burnaby 22 – CW 14, Westshore 94 v Seattle 0, Lomas 61 – Abby 0

The Ravens have gone top of the table with a comeback win over UBC combined with a Westshore loss to the Vikes. The Vikes and Bays both won which keeps the race for 6th place, the final  playoff spot, within a fraction, the Vikes at 2.8 points per match and the Bays at 2.73. Each team has a 17 game schedule so most teams have 6 games left to determine their final standing, Burnaby and Lomas have 5 games left, UVic has 7.

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