Delta Rugby News

The Rich-Lions had a free weekend but the Senior Men were on the road away to Kelowna. Kelowna will finish this season top of Division 2 and they look a good bet to win the BC Final. Our  Men are at the opposite end of the table this year. We have a least fulfilled all of our games, there are a number of teams above us in the standings that have not played all of their games on the road this season and defaulted games. 

We travelled up with 20 players and the intention of putting in an improved performance after our home game against Kelowna a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, we found out that we were up against a stronger team than in the previous game. We started the game fairly well, with an organized defence and running several multi-phased attacks but an unfortunate lapse inside our own 22m resulted in a cheap score for the home team. From that the wall had been breached and we allowed another 6 tries before half-time. We re-grouped and went again for the second half. We attacked several times running multiple phases but we could not breach the Kelowna defence and turn overs and penalties allowed the home team to keep their score ticking over. We never laid down and kept playing as hard as we could. Finally, after a quick tap penalty by Joe, Malcolm followed the run and took the offload to score our only try. The first try that Kelowna has conceded at home since November last year. With 70 minutes played it looked like we were going to better our previous result against Kelowna but unfortunately the last 10 minutes did not go well and the home team ran up the score on us. The game finished a very one-sided 93 to 5 win for Kelowna.

You cannot fault the bravery and effort that our young team puts into every game, we are just competing at a level that we are not ready for this season.

No games are scheduled for April 4th, have a Happy Easter long weekend.

The last games for the 2025-26 season will be,

Saturday, April 11th the Rich-Lions  will travel to Chilliwack for a 11.15am game.

Saturday, April 11th the Senior Men will travel to Ridge Meadows for a 1.00pm game.