BC Premier Weekend Results: Quarter-Finals Ravens Edge Rowers; UBC Dominate Lomas; CW Rout UVic; Capilano Power Past Burnaby

UBCOB Ravens 19 v Vancouver Rowing Club 10 @ 14:30
Referee: Ryan Alguire Assessor: Michael Landiak
Venue: Jericho Beach Park

Ravens won but it was a lot closer than the +18 we predicted. The Ravens without Aaron McLelland, David O’Donoghue and Brian Moylett didn’t put up the points we expected. The Rowers may have upped their game on defence, we’ll wait for Peter MacDonald’s report to hear his insights. It sets up a Ravens v CW semi-final match at Jericho. Ravens narrowly won that match in the regular season.

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BC Premier Results: Caps Top Rowers, Ravens Edge CW, UBC Drop Lomas, Pride Defeat Burnaby, Vikes Eliminate Bays

This is the final week of the regular season and the quarter-final matchup possibilities are coming into focus. UBC will finish #1 and will host either JBAA or Lomas. The 2nd/3rd place battle is a little more murky as the BCRU has CW and Ravens tied on Points Ratio .833 [ed. BCRU have now removed the standings table] but CW listed at 24 points and Ravens at 21 points apparently due to a points reduction in a Ravens match, an action that’s being contested by the Ravens. It’s likely the winner of the CW v Ravens match will finish in 2nd pending any competition committee decisions. Burnaby and Capilano are vying for 4th/5th, again complicated by the uneven schedule. UVic looks good for 6th, Rowers 7th and Bays and Lomas battling it out for 8th.

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Burnaby Weekend Match Reports: Wins in Men’s Premier, 1st Div, 3rd Div and Women’s 1st Div

from Mike Devlin

BLRC on the road to Kamloops by Simon Smoldon

This past Saturday the 1st Div Men & Women of the BLRC boarded the 6am bus to Kamloops for 2 highly anticipated games of rugby at the fantastic new clubhouse & fields that the Raiders have set up. For many of our new players this was a 1st time experience & many were in awe at the landscape & vistas that the locals take for granted…

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Ravens Fortunate To Win: Ravens 24 – Pacific Pride 17

by Peter MacDonald

A tough game against the Pride went the Ravens’ way at the end but the Pride gained big respect for taking the game to the Ravens all day long. With the score tied 17-17, and five minutes left, the Ravens’ fullback Aaron McLelland was served up a room service high clearing kick which he fielded centrally 35 metres out from the Pride line. Moving right and scanning things he made a gap and it was sayonara as he took a direct line at top speed to score the winning try. The Pride could have tied it up three minutes later but for a saving tackle by fly half Jesper Mellish so the Ravens ran out winners in a game that the Pride controlled for much of the day.

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BC Premier Results: Ravens Edge Pride, UBC Defeat Westshore, Caps Top Bays, Vikes Outlast Lomas, Burnaby Paddle Rowers

We were 5 for 5 on the predictions this week putting us at 31 out of 37 for the season and 84 %, up from 81% last week.

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Burnaby Win Two at Home Against James Bay

by Mike Devlin

BLRC First Division Men 61 – James Bay 6

The Burnaby Lake First Division are really hitting their stride of late.

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Ravens Fall on Last Play: UBC 27 – Ravens 26

by Peter MacDonald

This much anticipated game started off with a bang, actually three bangs, as tries lit up the scoreboard one after the other in the first few minutes. The UBC kickoff went straight out leading to a scrum centre to the Old Boys. From there fullback Aaron McLelland sped through a hole on the right side and fed it back inside to scrum half Alex Ball for a try in the first minute. UBC shook that off a second later when, after the UBC kickoff, flanker Owen Ruttan blocked a clearing kick and Frank Carson chased it down, picked up and touched down for a very quick reply. And, not long after that, UBC added another try as scrum half Jack Carson got away and, keeping it in the family, sent flanker Donald Carson in for the try, 12-7 UBC at 8 minutes.

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BC Premier Weekend Results: Burnaby Edge Bays, Vikes Paddle Rowers, UBC Nudge Ravens

Our prediction accuracy went down from 92% to 86% last week and it may take a further hit this week with 3 close matches. The Ravens v UBC match is a tough one to call, UVic can always surprise and the Bays are starting to turn things around.

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Capilano RFC match reports: CW and Kats at Klahanie

from Capilano Rugby

CW vs Capilano – Premier Men

The undefeated [ 5-0] Castaway Wanderers came to Klahanie park Saturday March 19 for a match against middle of the pack [2-2] Capilano RFC.

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Burnaby Match Reports: Wins Versus Squamish, Westshore and UBC: Match Video

by Mike Devlin

BLRC 3rd Div Men 41 – Squamish Axemen 15

The BLRC traveled to Squamish to take on the Axemen for the first time in decades. There are few pitches in the world more picturesque than Brennan Park.

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