The 2006 State Champion, SWARM (Southwest Area Rugby Men), represented by Columbine, Chatfielld and Mullen HS students, hosted Tigers Rugby Football Club (represented by Holy Family, Pomona, Centaurus and Faith Christian Academy students) on April 28. Playing for a place in Colorado Youth Rugby top five rankings, Tigers Rugby pulled off a 10-5 upset with a great defensive effort and controlling, strategic attack.Captain Quincy Anderson put the Tigers ahead 3-0 witha 25 meter penalty goal. SWARM fired back, intercepting a center pass and ran it in from 8 meters out to take a 5-3 lead. Before the end of the half, Markus Harvey ran a penalty in for a try and Quincy Anderson converted the points after kickfor a 10-5 halftime lead. Joe Mack took a dummy straight upfield to move Tigers Rugby Football Club in prime position for the "Kong" penalty play.
Tha second half was at times undisciplined, but the defensive net that the Tigers cast was sufficient to snuff out the SWARM advances. Though there were a number of opportunities created by Tigers Rugby deep in SWARM territory, the second half was a scoreless affair as SWARM held up the Tigers in goal or stopped their poorly supported (close-in) penalty takes to keep it a nail -biter to the bitter end.
Tigers also took the B-side match by a score of 15-5 on tries by Holy Family's Joe Mack, and Pomona's Mike Sadowski and Ryan Torrez.
The win also gave Tigers Rugby Football Club the second straight North Division Championship with a 5-2 league record. Overall, the Tigers move to 20-12-2. For a look at the Colorado youth Rugby Standings and Results, click this link:
http://www.errfu.org/template.php?sid=89#332
The Tigers will be seeded #5 in the playoffs as Colorado Youth Rugby hosts the State Championship Tournamaent at Dick's Sporting Goods Park this Saturday, May 3rd. Tigers Rugby's first match (against #12 Fort Collins Youth Rugby) will begin at 12:00 noon.
For additional information about Tigers Rugby, please click the link to:
http://tigersrugby.com, or call Coach Paul O'Brian at (303) 506-8110.