Monday, April 21, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
DI: San Diego Aztecs handily defeat OMBAC DI
On Saturday, at Robb Field in Ocean Beach, the San Diego Aztecs DI side pummeled OMBAC's DI side 51 - 12. Most of the scoring occurred on break-aways and OMBAC seemed to have no idea how to shut down the Aztec's style of open play. In the set pieces and phase play, the OMBAC team appeared to be better coached and technically very competent. The OMBAC players also appeared to be more disciplined and, by a small but certain margin, more fit than the Aztecs. But in the open play, OMBAC's players were clearly unfamiliar with how to mount an adequate tackling defense or how to better control the ball and keep it unavailable to the Aztec's halfbacks. Equally, OMBAC's players appeared unable to execute their own coherent back play attacks out of phase play. Despite playing hard and working at the game, this group of OMBAC players looked like a hastily assembled group of second and third string players that have been working on conditioning and game fundamentals but not playing together in significant competitions.
The Aztecs hard work and constant opportunistic play, on the other hand, seemed to come from being very familiar with each other and having drilled together on sophisticated second and third phase play formations.
I can only guess from this lopsided score that OMBAC has taken too many of their DI players off their DI side (in order for them to play well in the PRP), leaving them unable to consistently field a competitive team in the DI environment of SCRFU.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Upcoming Games
Upcoming Local Rugby Games:
FORMAT NOTE: HOME TEAM
TIME AWAY TEAM
Saturday Mar 22, 2014
DI
San Diego Old Aztecs 2:00pm Old
Mission Beach
Athletic (Robb Field)
DII
Huntington Beach
Unicorns 1:00pm North County Gurkhas (away)
Santa Barbara
Grunion 1:00pm Oceanside Chiefs (away)
DIII
Riverside 1:00pm Temecula Mountain Lions (away)
DIV
South Orange County
Gators 1:00pm San Diego Armada (away)
Women's
Santa Monica 2:00pm San
Diego Surfers (away)
College
USD vs CSUF (at CSUF) - TIME TBA
SDSU RFC vs ST. MARY's @ 1:00 PM at SDSU ENS 700
Saturday Mar 23, 2014
College
Pacific Lutheran U. Rugby - NSCRO Playoffs
(California Maritime Academy, Vallejo, CA?)
Saturday Mar 29, 2014
DI
Old Mission Beach Athletic 2:00pm Santa Monica Dolphins (Little
Q)
Las Vegas
Blackjacks 2:00pm San Diego Old Aztecs (away)
DII
Back Bay Sharks 1:00pm
North County Gurkhas (away)
Ventura
County Outlaws 2:00pm Oceanside
Chiefs (away)
DIII
San Luis Obispo 1:00pm
Imperial Beach Stingrays (away)
Las Vegas
Blackjacks D3 2:00pm San Diego Old Aztecs D3 (away)
Temecula Mountain Lions 2:00pm
Riverside (Temecula)
DIV
Godzilla 2:00pm San
Diego Armada (away)
Saturday Apr 05, 2014
DI
Los Angeles 2:00pm Old Mission
Beach Athletic (away)
Belmont Shore 2:00pm
San Diego Old Aztecs (away)
DII
North County Gurkhas 1:00pm
Ventura
County Outlaws (N. County)
Kern County 2:00pm
South Bay Rhinos (away)
DIII
Los Angeles
D3 2:00pm Temecula
Mountain Lions (away)
Orange County Ravens 2:00pm
Imperial Beach Stingrays (away)
Belmont Shore D3 2:00pm San Diego
Old Aztecs D3 (away)
DIV
Eagle Rock 2:00pm San
Diego Armada (away)
Women's
San Diego Surfers 2:00pm Tempe (San
Diego)
College
UC San Diego 2:00pm Santa
Barbara City College
Saturday Apr 12, 2014
DI
San Diego Old Aztecs 2:00pm Los Angeles
(Robb Field)
Old Mission Beach
Athletic 2:00pm Las Vegas
Blackjacks (Little Q)
DII
North County Gurkhas 1:00pm
South
Bay Rhinos (North County)
Oceanside Chiefs 2:00pm Huntington
Bch Unicorns (Camp
Pendleton)
DIII
Temecula Mountain Lions 2:00pm
Las Vegas Blackjacks D3 (Temecula)
Imperial Beach Stingrays 2:00pm Beaumont Bluehawks (IB)
San Diego Old Aztecs D3 2:00pm Los Angeles D3 (Robb
Field)
DIV
Women's
Belmont Shore 1:00pm San Diego
Surfers (away)
College
SDSU Rugby vs Cal Poly SLO @ 1:00 @ SDSU ENS 700
Saturday Apr 19, 2014
DIV
San Diego Armada 11:00am
South Orange County Gators
(San Diego)
Saturday Apr 26, 2014
DIV
Santa Monica
Fighting Kelp 2:00pm San Diego Armada (away)
Pacific Rugby Premiership
Since the creation of the Elite Cup Division and Championship series, seven western clubs have formed of the Pacific Rugby Premiership, apparently not affiliated with USARFU:
| Team | City / Metro Area | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Olympic Club | San Francisco, CA | 1860 |
| Old Mission Beach A.C. | San Diego, CA | 1966 |
| Denver Barbarians R.F.C. | Denver, CO | 1967 |
| Santa Monica R.C. | Santa Monica, L.A., CA | 1972 |
| Belmont Shore R.F.C. | Long Beach, L.A., CA | 1974 |
| San Francisco Golden Gate R.F.C. | San Francisco, CA | 2001 |
| Glendale Raptors | Glendale, Denver, CO | 2006 |
Elite Cup Division
As you are probably aware, USARFU Super League has been Replaced with the Elite Cup Division.
These are the current teams.
| Team | Pool | Stadium (capacity) | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | East | Franklin Park (500) | Boston, MA |
| Denver Barbarians | West | Shea Stadium (Denver) | Denver, CO |
| Glendale Raptors | West | Infinity Park (4,000) | Glendale, CO |
| Life | East | Life University Rugby Complex | Marietta, GA |
| New York Athletic Club (or NYAC) | East | Travers Island | New York City |
| Old Blue | East | Columbia Soccer Stadium (3,500) | New York City |
| Old Puget Sound Beach (or OPSB) | West | Magnuson Park | Seattle, WA |
| San Francisco Golden Gate (or SFGG) | West | Ray Sheeran Field | San Francisco, CA |
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