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UBCOB Ravens – October 2025

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Ravens Defend the Middle Ravens 24 – Caps 20: Report by Peter MacDonald

After two early season losses the Ravens looked like world beaters for the first 20 minutes of this game hopefully bringing a smile to Coach Taylor’s face. Constant possession, long uninterrupted phases of play with quick hands and lots of support led to two tries by the quarter. Wing Cole Keffer scooped up a blocked Caps kick, looked to pass but when a Caps player shot the gap he headed straight north on a hard cut and Joe Locke from Ethan Berry dotted down. A strong run from #10 Andrew Coe put Hamish Janes in at 20 minutes capping the early dominance and bringing the score to 12-0.

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BC Rugby Weekend of October 4th 2025

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BC Premier Week 3 Results: Westshore Topple Bays; Burnaby Defeat Meraloma; Capilano Fall at Ravens; Vikes Lose to UBC – Exhibition Pride Outscore Seattle – Week 1 Women’s Premier Burnaby Stop Seattle, Meraloma Dominate CW

It’s Week 3 of the BC Premier and we see some big names returning to play in the Canadian Winter League, aka BC Premier. Just at #10 we have national team players Cooper Coats, Andrew Coe, Mark Balaski, Ethan Turner all starting this weekend. Lucas Rumball returns to the BC Premier after many seasons away, he’ll be starting as Ravens openside flanker.

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BC Premier 2025-26 – Week 3

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Look Ahead to Week 3 of the BC Premier; Pacific Pride Play Exhibition vs Seattle; UBC v UVic National University Qualifier and Women’s Premier Season Kicks Off

There are four matches in the men’s Premier this weekend, Week 3. The UBC vs UVic Premier match is also a National University Qualifier and part of the Wightman Boot competition between the two universities. The Pacific Pride are playing an exhibition against Seattle. The women’s Premier kicks off with two matches, there was supposed to be three but the Ravens v Thunderbirds match has been marked as cancelled. The Ravens apparently haven’t been able to put together a women’s Premier team at the time of writing. We’ll have our predictions article out tomorrow when we have the rosters for the weekend. The current Week 2 standings are posted below.

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BC Rugby Weekend of September 27th 2025

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BC Premier Week 2 Results: UBC Drop Capilano, Burnaby Edge Bays, Westshore Win at Ravens, CW Fall at Meraloma – Coastal Cup and University Qualifier UVic Dominate at TWU

There are four BC Premier matches this weekend as teams bring back players from last season and introduce new players. The playing strength of the teams for the full season ahead is still fluid and the results this weekend will give a better idea of what lies ahead. Some national team players, XVs and 7s, start to filter in Andrew Coe, Rhys James, Kyle Tremblay, Kaden Duguid, Ethan Turner, Izzak Kelly, Talon McMullin, Jack Shaw, Noah Bain weren’t seen in Week 1. Also the Coastal Cup and University Qualifier between the Vikes and TWU kicks off with Cooper Coats getting his first start with the Vikes.

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BC Premier 2025-26 – Week 2

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A Look at the Matchups for Week 2 and Standings After Week 1

There are four games in the BC Premier this coming Saturday. Hosting will be Capilano, James Bay, Meraloma and Ravens. The Vikes are playing a university championship qualifier at TWU and the Pride don’t have a match scheduled as far as we know.

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BC Premier Week 1 – Feature Players

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Players in the Spotlight from Week 1 of BC Premier: Napolioni Bolaca, Mark Balaski, Brendan Kim, Morgan di Nardo

We had a chance to review the match footage of 3 games that were put up on YouTube, kudos to Westshore and UVic for putting up the live streams and archives of the matches, and to Burnaby for putting up the match video post game. We selected a few screen captures from the videos to highlight some outstanding performances. You can view the timestamp on the screen captures to watch on the videos which are included below. The players featured from Week 1 are Burnaby #10 Napolioni Bolaca, Westshore #10 Mark Balaski, UVic’s second row Brendan Kim and centre Morgan di Nardo. All Week 1 impact players.

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BC Rugby Weekend of September 13th 2025

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BC Premier Week 1 Results: UBC Draw With Burnaby, Bays Ground Ravens, Pride Fall to Vikes, Westshore Defeat CW, Caps Top Lomas

A number of upsets in Week 1 as teams have recruited in the off season and the playing strengths for the new season become apparent. The biggest upset reported by the BCRU was the Bays over UBCOB Ravens. The Bays finished in the cellar last season and the Ravens won the Rounsefell Cup. In another match UVic were down 19 points at the half and upset the Rugby Canada Academy in a close battle. We have the full match video on both the UVic v Pride match and the Westshore v CW match, courtesy of the host clubs YouTube channels.

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BC Premier 2025/26

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Men’s Premier Schedule by Club and Social Media Links

This article contains social media links and schedules for BC Premier clubs, as well as the updated standings.

Standings – April 11th 2026

Team Played Wins Draws Losses BP Points Ratio
Ravens 16 13 0 3 16 68 4.25
UBC* 17 12 1 4 18 64 3.76
Westshore 17 13 0 4 12 64 3.76
James Bay 17 10 0 7 14 54 3.18
Capilano 17 9 0 8 15 51 3.0
UVic 16 8 0 8 15 47 2.93
Burnaby Lake 17 8 1 8 13 47 2.76
Meraloma 17 3 1 13 8 22 1.29
Pacific Pride 9 1 1 7 4 10 1.11
CW# 17 1 0 16 7 7 0.41

* UBC lose 4 points for defaulting Westshore match
# CW lose 4 points for defaulting Ravens match
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BC Premier Schedule

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BC Premier Rugby 2025-26 List of Matches by Club Plus Preview Video

There’s 26 days before the BC Premier league begins on September 13th. The BCRU have the schedule up, we’ve included the link below. We’ve also listed the Premier schedule for each club and a preview video, entirely Ai created from the schedule link.

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