For Collingwood, speed thrills! Cavaliers find bounty of offence to top Brentwood College and win first B.C. title since 2013
VANCOUVER — If Ethan Lucke had picked another sport to make his specialty, you could quite easily picture him suiting up in any number of different roles.
Perhaps anchoring a defensive backfield in football as a strong safety?
Certainly crouching into the blocks awaiting the starter’s pistol in the 100-metre sprint.
And definitely using that foot speed and anticipation with a glove on his catching hand in centre field.
Alas, football, track and baseball did not end up winning Lucke’s heart.
Rugby did, and on Saturday, as one piece of a total team effort that saw West Vancouver’s Collingwood Cavaliers beat Brentwood College 45-31 for the B.C. Double A Tier 1 provincial title, the easiest way to define how speed set the Cavs apart from the rest of their competition this season was to start with the effort of the team’s Grade 12 back.
Oak Bay coach Atkinson: “I’m almost speechless…” Barbs first public school in a decade to win B.C.’s top-tiered rugby crown!
LANGLEY — When you spend your entire high school rugby career growing up in the shadow of Goliath, finally getting a chance to step out into a spotlight of your own can be a little blinding.
“For all these years, Shawnigan Lake has been like a super-hero,” Oak Bay Barbarians’ senior Nick Carson explained on Friday evening. “Just unbeatable. So this means a ton. I knew since the beginning of the season that we could do it. But now that we’re actually here? It’s pretty surreal.”
They’d already beaten the Stags once this season, 20-15 in the Vancouver Island Quad-A final.
Yet taking down the single most reliable program in all of B.C. high school sports in the provincial championship game environment they have come to call their very own by winning it all in eight of the previous nine seasons?
Stadium Series – Round Two 2018
Vancouver Island, Kelowna, Abbotsford, Surrey and North Vancouver
Stadium Series Round 2: Friday, May 4th and Saturday, May 5th, 2018
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Date |
Away |
Score |
Home |
Score |
Venue |
KO |
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Thursday May 3 |
R.A. McMath (LM) | 48 |
D.W. Poppy (FV) | 3 | D.W. Poppy | 4:00 PM |
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Date |
Away |
Score |
Home |
Score |
Venue |
KO |
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Friday May 4 |
Rockridge (LM) | 0 | Brentwood College (VI) | 61 | Shawnigan Lake | 1:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
South Delta (FV) | 22 | Claremont (VI) | 18 | Shawnigan Lake | 1:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Lord Tweedsmuir (FV) | 72 |
G.P. Vanier (VI) | 5 | Shawnigan Lake | 2:30 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Langley (FV) | 28 | Glenlyon Norfolk (VI) | 10 | Shawnigan Lake | 4:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Sir Charles Tupper (LM) | 17 | Nanaimo District (VI) | 5 | Shawnigan Lake | 4:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
St. George’s (LM)* 1st St. George’s (LM)* 2nd St. George’s (LM)* Jr’s |
12 20 27 |
Shawnigan Lake (VI)* 1st Shawnigan Lake (VI)* 2nd Shawnigan Lake (VI)* Jr’s |
36 50 45 |
Shawnigan Lake* | 4:00 PM |
|
Friday May 4 |
Elgin Park (FV) | 28 | Kelowna (OK) | 50 |
Kelowna Secondary | 2:30 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
G.W. Graham (FV) | 24 | Clarence Fulton (OK) | 5 | Kelowna Secondary | 2:30 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Gleneagle (FV) | 92 | Penticton (OK) | 10 |
Kelowna Secondary | 4:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Handsworth (LM) | 20 | W.J. Mouat (FV) | 36 | Rotary Stadium | 4:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Sentinel (LM) | 10 | R.E. Mountain (FV) | 17 | Rotary Stadium | 5:30 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
West Vancouver (LM) | 12 | Robert Bateman (FV) | 51 |
Rotary Stadium | 7:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Lord Byng (LM) |
52 | Semiahmoo (FV) | 10 |
SSAP Field #1 | 2:30 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Argyle (LM) | 15 | Fleetwood (FV) | 7 | SSAP Field #2 | 2:30 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Belmont (VI) | 41 | Sardis (FV) | 28 | SSAP Field #1 | 4:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Yale (FV)** | 15 |
Earl Marriott (FV)** | 24 | SSAP Field #2** | 4:00 PM |
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Friday May 4 |
Oak Bay (VI)* | 40 | Carson Graham (LM)* | 22 | Klahanie Park* | 4:00 PM |
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Date |
Away |
Score |
Home |
Score |
Venue |
KO |
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Saturday May 5 |
Collingwood (LM)*** | 34 | St. Michael’s University (VI)*** | 6 | St. Michael’s University*** | 3:45 PM |
LM = Lower Mainland
VI = Vancouver Island
FV = Fraser Valley
OK = Okanagan
KT = Kootenays
Premier League Match = *
FV AAA Tier 1 Playoff Ranking Match = **
SMUS Alumni Celebration weekend = ***
High School Rugby to Honour Don Burgess
Lower Vancouver Island Senior Boys Rugby will honour the late Don Burgess with the establishment of a memorial trophy in his name. The trophy will be presented for the first time in May of this year, and recognize the most outstanding local high school player from the 2018 season.
Burgess, who passed away February 6 at the age of 85, was an absolute legend of the game, as a player, coach, administrator and innovator.
Educated at Vic High and then Western Washington University, Burgess went on to teach and coach at both Mt. Newton JSS and then Parkland SS for 32 years. He made a hugely positive impact on literally generations of students and players.
An outstanding rugby player himself, Burgess toured the UK with Canada in 1962, winning headlines in the British press for his superb performances. Two years later, he was part of history, with his contributions critical in British Columbia’s famous 8-3 win over the touring British Lions.
At every level, including with his beloved Oak Bay Wanderers, he was renowned for his side stepping ability, deadly accurate kicking and crunching tackles.
Obituary: Rugby legend Don Burgess was inventor of the Burge tee
Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist
There wasn’t a pair of uprights Don Burgess couldn’t clinically slice right through the heart.
Burgess, one of Canada’s greatest rugby kickers, influenced hundreds of young players as a coach and invented the Burge kicking tee. He died Tuesday at age 85.
He competed at the club, Island, provincial, national and international levels and was inducted into both the B.C. and Victoria sports halls of fame. He played 17 games for Canada and was the national team fullback through much of the 1960s, when Test matches were rare.
Brent Johnston, manager of the Castaway Wanderers club and former national team manager, said Burgess “was as good, if not better, in his era” than D.T.H. van der Merwe, the all-time Test tries leader for Canada.
Scrum Fest 2018
Claremont Secondary School in Victoria is hosting the 10th annual Scrum Fest exhibition rugby tournament on April 12-14. This event is open to school teams in the following categories:
- Sr. Boys 15’s (Grades 11 & 12)
- Jr. Boys 15’s (Grades 9 & 10)
- Mixed Grades Girls 7’s (Grades 9 -12)
- Download Tournament Registration and Information
Tournament Contact: Phil M Ohl
BC High School 7’s Championship Results
BC High School 7’s Championship
June 9 – 10, 2017
Brentwood College School
Tier 1
1) Shawnigan Lake
2) Oak Bay
3) Brentwood
4) St. George’s
5) SMUS
6) Earl Marriott
7) Mt. Boucherie
8) Aberdeen Hall
Tier 2
1) R.E. Mountain
2) Elphinstone
3) Argyle
4) Reynolds
5) Cowichan
6) Belmont
7) Ballenas
8) Edward Milne
9) Esquimalt
10) Sa-Hali
11) G.P Vanier
12) Brentwood B
13) Earl Marriott B
14) Burnaby South
15) Rutland
16) Charles Hayes
Scores and Updates – Provincials 2017
If you are looking for all the latest scores during the 2017 tournament please visit the Scores and Update page here.
Game Day Schedules – Provincials 2017
Don’t miss any of the action, you can live stream games at the link below.
http://sportscanada.tv/bcss/2017-bcss-boys-rugby-championships
Junior Boys and AA Day Three Schedule
AAA and AAAA Day Three Schedule
BCSSRU 2020 Annual General Meeting
To: All Sr. Boys Rugby Coaches
In preparation for the upcoming AGM on Saturday please review the meeting Agenda. The AGM will take place at the Sr. School Campus of St. George’s School, which is located at 4175 W.29th Ave in Vancouver. The meeting will take place in Room # 103 from 12:15 to approximately 2:30 pm.
Download Agenda of 2020 AGM (pdf format) 
Thank you,
Walter van Halst
Commissioner, BCSSRU