High School Rugby Updates – March 2025
In Touch Newsletter Issue 3 – Public puts Private on Notice
Quw’utsun shocks Shawnigan, Claremont Rattles SMUS
Phil Smith has come up with a great resource for high school rugby on the Island and in BC. It’s a newsletter “Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia”. We’ve included a link below to download the full .pdf version which is formatted and includes photos. We’ve also copied some of the text below for a quick read.
BC Rugby Weekend of March 15th 2025
BC Premier Week 13 Results: Lomas Edge Burnaby, UVic Fall to CW, Pride Overcome Westshore, Bays Lose to UBC, Ravens Top Caps – Women’s Premier CW Lose in Seattle, Thunderbirds Defeat Burnaby
Only 3 more weekends of regular season play after this weekend, time is running out for teams trying to capture the last playoff spot while near the top of the standings UBC and Lomas battle for the #2 playoff ranking and a quarter-final bye.
BC Youth Rugby Updates – March 2025
BC Rugby Announces Changes to PRC Tournament and Selection of BC U19 and U17 Coaches For This Summer
A couple of recent announcments from the BCRU this week. They’re changing the Provincial Regional Championships (PRCs) to make it a higher level competition. They’re reducing the competition to 4 regions, basically Island, Vancouver, Valley, Interior. In previous years each region would put in multiple teams from sub-regions diluting the talent from each region. In order to facilitate full participation and create a selection tool they’ve created a new tournament, the PRL (Provincial Regional League) which would include the sub-regions within the regions. It will also act as a selection tool for the PRC teams. The PRL takes place in June and the PRC in July.
UBCOB Ravens – March 2025
Ravens Edge Lomas in the Rain Ravens 27 – Lomas 19: Report by Peter MacDonald
On a cold, wet, windy day at Connaught the two west side clubs gathered at midfield for a moment’s silence to honour long time Meraloma member Chas Teeple who recently passed away. Chas was a skilled flyhalf, a class guy and a lover of rugby and of the camaraderie that surrounds it. I recall watching him play in the late 1960s when he led the St Georges backline and later when he manned the #10 jersey with the Lomas. Looking around the sidelines at the game on Saturday there were Bobby Brown and referee assessor on the day Al Hudson who were Chas’s teammates and friends back in the day. Raven Rick Bourne was a high school rival and later a friend. There’s a long BC rugby through line from those days to today.
High School Rugby Updates – March 2025
In Touch Newsletter Issue 2 – Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia
Phil Smith has come up with a great resource for high school rugby on the Island and in BC. It’s a newsletter “Covering High School Rugby on Vancouver Island and British Columbia”. We’ve included a link below to download the full .pdf version which is formatted and includes photos. We’ve also copied some of the text below for a quick read. His contact information is in the .pdf and he’s looking for story ideas for the next issue.
BC Rugby League Standings – March 8th 2025
BC Rugby League Standings for Men’s Premier, Div 1, Div 2, Div 3, Women’s Premier, Div 1, Div 2
Thanks to Peter Muirhead who put together these league tables for the weekend of March 8th 2025. He’s included a playoff “snapshot” which will be updated each week as the standings change.
MLR 2025 – Round 4
MLR Round 4 with 24 Canadians in Action: San Diego Only Undefeated Team Tops West Conference and Chicago Tops East Conference
There were 24 Canadians in action this weekend in MLR, 13 starting and 11 in the reserves. San Diego remains the only undefeated team and tops the West Conference, Chicago tops the East Conference.
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