San Diego Rugby Football

Both the men’s and women’s USD rugby teams went 2-1 in their weekend competition at Wayne State in Wayne, Neb

2014-04-21T22:07:00.000-07:00

USD goes to wayne

OMBAC crushes Santa Monica with PRP record high score (69-32)

2014-03-30T13:38:00.002-07:00

http://www.rugbymag.com/super-league-/10856-prp-latest.html

Denver beats Olympic Club to move to 4-3 in Pacific Rugby Premiership

2014-03-25T11:14:00.001-07:00

Denver moves to 4-3 in PRP

USA Rugby names Marin Pinnell female coach of the year; Fallbrook coach has 3 national championships to her credit

2014-03-25T11:07:00.002-07:00

http://www.thevillagenews.com/story/76939/

DI: San Diego Aztecs handily defeat OMBAC DI

2014-03-23T10:37:00.001-07:00

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.

Upcoming Games

2014-03-18T18:15:00.001-07:00

Upcoming Local Rugby Games:

FORMAT NOTE: HOME TEAM TIME AWAY TEAM

Saturday Mar 22, 2014

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

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

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

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

2014-03-18T17:53:00.000-07:00

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

2014-03-18T17:43:00.000-07:00

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

Small Site update

2013-02-26T14:04:00.003-08:00

Updated Links for San Diego Rugby Clubs (as possible).

If you have a Link for Point Loma, let me know what it is.

Newest Rugby Club for San Diego: Xipe

2011-06-18T09:22:00.000-07:00

Xipe Rugby Club debuts in North County

SDSU falls to Cal-Berkely at home (little Q)

2011-03-09T08:14:00.001-08:00

http://www.dailycal.org/article/112237/bears_regain_dominant_form_in_shutout_of_sdsu

UCSD loses in Fullerton

2011-03-09T08:12:00.000-08:00

story from csuf's campus paper

#4 UCSB to take on our #19 USD team

2011-03-07T17:16:00.001-08:00

ucsb-clash-usd

Rugby World Cup News

2011-02-28T08:05:00.000-08:00

Rugby’s big five is now a big four

Japan's coach (former golden boy of NZ Rugby, John Kirwan) names 41 players as rugby World Cup hopefuls

San Diego Rugby in the News

2011-02-01T00:45:00.000-08:00

San Pasqual Senior Pitches Rugby Squad

Rugby catching on in San Diego Region

Southern California College Rugby Swept by BYU

2011-01-24T21:11:00.000-08:00

Beating Claremont College (86 - 0) and San Diego State University (69 - 0), BYU had a successful road trip to Southern California. BYU's second side also had a match against USD (25 - 10) which BYU also won.

Link to story on BYU's website: BYU starts season with victory over S. California college teams

OMBAC defeats LA Rebellion 36 to 27

2011-01-16T15:39:00.001-08:00

Local U-19 Program Recognized by Rugby Magazine

2011-01-15T01:44:00.000-08:00

Link to Local Article:

Rugby Magazine says Fallbrook U19 top program of the year

Link to Rugby Magazine Article:

Rugby Mag.com Awards

Rugby Mag.com release Rugby Super League Schedule for 2011

2011-01-08T15:19:00.001-08:00

URL:

2011 Rugby Super Leage Schedule

OMBAC pretends to have match with SFGG/Belmont Shore

2011-01-08T15:15:00.000-08:00

Instead of playing against the San Francisco Golden Gate and/or Belmont Shore, as advertised on their website, OMBAC brought their formerly RSL now Division 1 team against San Diego's Division 2 team, San Diego Old Aztecs, and, no suprise, soundly beat them in A and B games. While probably a good experience for the Division 2 champions, it may not have been the experience they were planning on having. SFGG was scheduled to play San Mateo and a new East Palo Alto team called the Bulldogs, so one wonders why this fixture ever appeared on OMBAC's website. On the other hand, Belmont Shore shows a fixture with SFGG for today also so who knows what happened.

OMBAC 3 also played Ventura RFC's Division 3 team today. Results pending.

Coronado Rugby Player Wins Paralympic Gold

2011-01-03T05:17:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to the story:

http://coronado.patch.com/articles/hometown-athlete-turns-paralyzing-injury-into-gold

San Diego Surfers win Women's D1 National Title. . .again

2011-01-01T10:01:00.000-08:00

Here is a link to the news write up:
http://sdsurfersrugby.com/news.html

Congratulations to the Surfers!!

Rugby Club in Temecula getting off the ground

2010-12-20T10:31:00.000-08:00

Temecula Rugby Club News article

San Diego Rugby News

2010-11-19T21:54:00.000-08:00

Check out this article online: SD Armada scheduled for exhibition match this upcoming weekend.

Here's the clickable link:

http://sdgln.com/health/2010/11/17/tale-three-halves-san-diego-rugby-league-tackle-irish-weekend

Excerpt: This weekend the Armada, which plays in Division IV, will host . . .the Sin City Irish from Las Vegas, who play one level higher in Division III. The match will start at noon.

According to Armada secretary Daniel Tillapaugh, the match this weekend is a warm-up for a three-team tournament the Armada is hosting Saturday, December 11, also starting at noon, when the San Francisco Fog and the Los Angeles Rebellion will be coming to San Diego to compete against the Armada, and each other, in a round-robin format.

Both the match against the Irish this weekend and the tournament in December will be played in the UTC area, at Doyle Community Park.

Old Aztecs finish undefeated season as Div II Champions

2010-05-05T09:45:00.001-07:00