Week 9 Results: San Diego, Toronto, Austin, Atlanta, LA and DC Claim Wins
A few Canadian highlights in the wins this week. For San Diego, Michael Smith helped his national selection chances with a strong 80 minutes at openside flanker in their strong win over NOLA. For Toronto, Will Kelly put his hand up for consideration as he got his first start at #10. At LA Corey Thomas continues to impress going a full 80 in the engine room and scoring a try. At DC, Doug Fraser marked his return to the lineup at #13 with a try.
Week 10 sees LA @ Austin for a short turn around match on Wednesday evening 5pm PT. On Saturday it’s Utah @ NOLA 5pm PT and DC @ Houston 5pm PT. On Sunday it’s NE @ NY 11am PT and Atlanta @ Seattle 5pm PT.
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*Week 9 Matchups: NOLA @ SD; Toronto @ Houston; NY @ Austin; New England @ Atlanta; Utah @ LA – Sunday Seattle @ DC*
There are 5 games on Saturday and one on Sunday this week. Action starts at 1pm PT on Saturday with NOLA @ San Diego. We’ll update this article as rosters are made available.
NOLA @ SD 1pm PT
San Diego are notoriously late with their rosters but NOLA have their roster published already and 3 Canadians are starting. Eric Howard at hooker, Kyle Baillie in the second row and Lockie Kratz at #13. Update: Michael Smith gets the start at openside with San Diego.
TORONTO @ HOUSTON 5pm PT
Toronto features 11 Canada-eligible players in their starting XV, a season high. Will Kelly gets his first start at #10 as does Spencer Jones at #12. Ciulini and Wadden get the start in the second row. Tyler Rowland starts at tighthead. Houston sees Robbie Povey starting at #10.
NEW YORK @ AUSTIN 5pm PT
Quinn Ngawati starts on the outside for New York and Cole Davis and Moe Abdelmonem are on the Reserves for Austin.
NEW ENGLAND @ ATLANTA 5pm PT
Josh Larsen will lead the New England team at second row. Atlanta haven’t published their roster yet. Update: Matt Heaton starts at openside for Atlanta with Conor Keys in the Reserves.
UTAH @ LA 7pm PT
LA features Corey Thomas starting in the second row, DTH is on the Reserves. There’s no sign of Lindsey Stevens the Canada-eligible hooker in the LA 23. Utah haven’t published their roster yet. Update: Fraser Hurst is in the Reserves for Utah.
SEATTLE @ DC 9am PT Sunday
Luke Campbell gets the start at blindside for DC with Doug Fraser at centre. Seattle only has one Canadian in the roster, Jake Ilnicki, as reserve prop.
