Delta Rugby News

On Saturday, the Rich-Lions played against Kelowna in Richmond. The Kelowna team are quite dominant this season and even though the Rich-Lions carried a lot of the play they couldn't cross the try line in the game. Kelowna won the game 44 to 0.

The Senior Men had a home game against the Meralomas. It was a cold and wet day for our last game of this half.  Injuries and players not being available meant we only had 15 players suited up to play a home game. This was an end to end type of game, Lomas scored then we scored and just when we could have taken the lead we missed an easy 2 on 1 for a try that ended in arms swinging, a penalty against us and soon after another try for the Lomas. We kept in the game and managed to score 4 tries to pick up a bonus point, but the big city team had the bench to keep the pressure on our 15 players and opened up a gap we couldn't get back. The final score was 48 to 28 for the visitors. This young Brit-Lions team is learning game by game and improving every week but we need the extra players on our bench to limit the injuries and keep the pressure on the opponents in our games. Hopefully we can get a few more players back and kick on in the second half of the season.

The U16 & U18 boys both had semi-final playoff games on Sunday. Both of our teams played against the North Shore Capilano rugby club. 

The U16s managed to field a full 15 team this week. The U16 team started the game really well again, they played with structure and jumped on the chance to open the scoring. The score was close for a while but our player size and organization was wearing down the young Caps players. Even with a yellow card we kept on running at the visitors and the score started to open up in the second half. There were some great individual runs from our forwards and backs but the support was always there to help finish off the play. We are definitely fitter than most of the teams we have played this season. The final score was 61 to 12 for our Brit Lions. They have now made it to back to back U16 finals.

The U18's played against a different looking Caps team from the one that we saw a few weeks ago. Our team was lacking the bomb squad bench we have had recently but we still had enough to get the job done. We opened the scoring early again but the Caps were a good test and countered us with their own scores. The game was well controlled by the referee and chances for both teams were lost to penalties or knock ons when scores could have been made. The game was tied at 12 -12 then we jumped on a couple of turnovers to open up a 14 point lead. The visitors came back at us and from a clearing kick, and then from a very risky miss pass wide on our own 5m line we quickly found ourselves only up by 4 points with 10 minutes left to play. We got our composure back and went back to our game plan to finish off the game. This of course resulted in us marching up the field and scoring the final try to push the gap back to 11 points. The final score was 33 to 22 for our Lions. The U18s have grown into an exciting team this season. We have a good base of returning players from last season and with the former U16 division winning players that came up they have developed into a well rounded group that can defend and attack for 80 minutes.

The Rich-Lions next game is against Langley at Crush Crescent, at 11.15 on Saturday.

The Senior Men are finished until January.

The U16 Boys final is against the Surrey Beavers at Sullivan Heights, 12.15pm on Sunday.

The U18 Boys final will be against United at John Oliver Park, 1.30pm on Sunday.