An excellent end of tour match for the U18 Dog River Howlers as they defeated the German National U18 team 24-15 to finish the tour with 3 wins from 3 games. The team was predominantly a BC U18 team with 23 of the 28 tour players from BC and coaches from St. George’s and Shawnigan schools. The match video can be viewed here.
This year the PRCs have a slight change, less teams, higher quality. The number of teams have been reduced to four representing the four main regions of BC: Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Fraser Valley and Interior. There was an earlier post in March that explained those changes.
The BC Provincial High School Championships wrapped up on Saturday with St. George’s defeating rivals Shawnigan 31-12 to win Gold in AAA Boys. In AA Boys it was Collingwood over Robert Bateman 19-15. In Girls AAA it was G.P Vanier 18-10 over Gleneagle and in Girls AA it was D.W Poppy over Shawnigan 17-7. The full results can be viewed here.
Games This Week
Sr Boys Provincial Championships Wednesday May 28 to 31. Quarterfinal Matchups:
Shawnigan v Abbotsford
Quw’utsun v Kelowna
Oak Bay v Carson Graham
Claremont v Lake City
SMUS v Argyle
Brentwood v Charles Tupper
This week, Shawnigan held off a persistent Oak Bay in their AAA semi-final, while Brentwood made light work of Mt Douglas in the AA semi. In the junior boys, Oak Bay beat Shawnigan to win the Island Championship.
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Belmont, who have a strong synergy between their football and rugby programs, doubled up with both Senior and Junior titles in the boys Island high school rugby 7s championships. The top four teams in the senior bracket will advance to the Provincials in Abbotsford, joining Belmont will be Vanier (2nd), Spectrum (3rd) and GNS (4th).
It was a relatively quiet week for the senior boys, but the huge story was the Claremont juniors defeating Oak
Bay convincingly, 38-22. It was only their second win of the season, but the machinations of playoff seeding
saw them leapfrog Oak Bay and SMUS into the top spot. More details below…
Rugby Canada announced on May 5th a U18 men’s camp to be held in Ontario between July 1st and 7th, their announcement is posted below. Unfortunately long before this announcement there were existing age-grade provincial competitions and an international tour planned and announced.
This week, Shawnigan had a statement win over rivals St George’s and Oak Bay had a similar win against
cross-town rival SMUS to win the 30th edition of the Rees Boot. But Quw’utsun, with their win over Abbotsford,
will likely shoot to number one in the Provincial AAA rankings.