UPDATE: The Pride look destined to repeat as Coastal Cup champions this year with a resounding win over a young UBC side, 80-19. At Trinity Western it was UVic pulling away at the end to win 45-14. The TWU match was live streamed on the Rugby Network and was well done, congrats to TWU on the production.
The Pride went 2-0 on the season with a dominant 52-12 win over the home side UVic. In other action UBC went to 1-1 with a 61-22 victory over TWU. Traditionally UBC start slowly and pick up momentum as the season progresses.
BC Rugby Season Kicks Off with a Pacific Pride vs UBC Match at MacDonald Park on Saturday: Team Rosters – SCORE UPDATE
[ed. the Pride won the match 42-19. Those at the match report Noah Flesch, Cody Nhanala and Sam Mace had strong games for the Pride and Takoda McMullin and Relmu Wilson-Valdes were outstanding for UBC.]
The BC Rugby season kicks off tomorrow with a Coastal Cup clash UBC visiting the Pride, game at MacDonald Park at 2:15. The season will get into full swing the following weekend September 9th.
This wraps up the BC Premier Regional season, the BC Premier kicks off next weekend. We believe the Pacific Pride won the Coastal Cup even though they lost the match today to UBC, both teams have 21 points but the Pride have the better point differential both in the league and head to head. We’ll check with the team coaches and verify that later.
Week 5 of the BC Premier Regional competition is in the books. On the Island, the Bays claimed the Barnard Cup. Westshore and CW will battle next week to determine the runner up. In the Coastal Cup it’s all to play for between the Pride and UBC next weekend. The Pride are at 4-1 (20 pts) and UBC are 3-2 (16 pts). On the Mainland, teams take next week off in preparation for BC Premier Week 1 on October 29th.
Week 4 has wrapped up. In the Barnard Cup, the Bays can be announced as winners even though there’s two weeks left in the competition, their 3-0 record with 14 points is beyond the reach of CW and Westshore. Congrats to them. In the Coastal Cup it’s still a battle with the Pride at 3-1 leading, UVic and UBC at 2-2 and TWU at 1-3. On the mainland the Ravens (4-0) continue as the only undefeated side. A reminder there’s no Premier action next weekend, Thanksgiving weekend. Action resumes October 15th.
The following are match reports from 3 of the 4 Coastal Cup teams, UBC, TWU and UVic. The only match report missing is from the Pacific Pride, the Rugby Canada Academy team.
There were two draws this week, and a couple of return to form performances from UBC and Pacific Pride, the Ravens continue to roll and Seattle notch a road win.
from TWU Media
LANGLEY, B.C. It was a massive 37-26 victory over Pacific Pride for Trinity Western at the Willoughby Community Park on Saturday. Tamilore Awonusi (Dublin, Ireland) led the Spartans with two tries while Matthew Willemse (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) converted on all four TWU tries to go with three penalties for a team-high 17 points.
From TWU Media
VICTORIA The Trinity Western men’s rugby team lost a nail-biting season-opening match against the University of Victoria, as the Vikes slotted a penalty at the death to secure a 42-39 win at Wallace Field.