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Dan Drabinski

Men DI Club Rankings Latest

March 21, 2014 By Dan Drabinski

WRITTEN BY ALEX GOFF    WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH 2014 22:54 PDF Print Write e-mail
Men DI Club Rankings Latest
Rankings – Club Rankings
RUGBYMag.com’s Men’s DI Club Rankings show little movement as most of the teams involved did what was expected. OMBAC’s defeat of SFGG and Denver’s defeat of Belmont Shore mean that Denver moves up to #5 (remember, we demurred on moving Denver past SFGG a week ago out of caution as we wanted to see the Barbarians back up their March 8 performance, which they did).

OMBAC poised to make a move. Eiden Hughes photo.OMBAC poised to make a move. Eiden Hughes photo.

OMBAC did indeed beat SFGG on home soil, but it was a close game and we’re wondering how it would shake down in San Francisco. The two are basically in a tie right now.

Olympic Club does not move down because of their loss to #3 Glendale, but neither do they move up, as we’re not sure we can say they are better than Metropolis at the moment.

Old Blue beat Boston in a non-conference game, and those two teams switch rankings.

Lower down all is in stasis at the moment, but wait a bit.

 

Men DI Club Rankings March 19 2014
Rank Prev Club League Notes
1 1 Seattle-OPSB BC DI Beat Surrey
2 2 Life No League Scrimmaged USA campers
3 3 Glendale Raptors PRP Beat Olympic Club (10)
4 4 NYAC Northeast Beat Princeton AC
5 7 Denver Barbarians PRP Beat Belmont Shore (6)
6 6 Belmont Shore PRP Lost to Denver (7)
7 5 SFGG PRP Lost to OMBAC (8)
8 8 OMBAC PRP Beat SFGG (5)
9 9 Metropolis Midwest Idle
10 10 Olympic Club PRP Lost to Glendale (3)
11 11 Santa Monica PRP Idle
12 13 Old Blue Northeast Beat Boston (12)
13 12 Boston Northeast Lost to Old Blue (13)
14 14 PAC Mid-Atlantic Beat Raleigh
15 15 New Orleans Red River Beat Arkansas State U.
16 16 Dallas Reds Red River Beat Dallas Harlequins
17 17 Austin Blacks Red River Beat Fort Worth
18 18 Norfolk Mid-Atlantic Beat Baltimore-Chesapeake (19)
19 19 Baltimore-Chesapeake Mid-Atlantic Lost to Norfolk (18)
20 20 Columbus Midwest Idle
21 21 Kansas City Blues Midwest Idle
22 22 Milwaukee Barbarians Midwest Idle
23 23 Los Angeles So. Cal Beat OMBAC DI team
24 24 San Diego Old Aztecs So. Cal Beat Belmont Shore DI team
25 25 HARC Red River Idle

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February 21, 2014 By Dan Drabinski

WRITTEN BY ALEX GOFF    SUNDAY, 09 FEBRUARY 2014 02:20
Dallas Reds Lead in Red River
Clubs – Men’s DI Clubs
The Dallas Reds dispatched a strong Austin Blacks team Saturday to secure themselves in 1st place in the Red River Conference.

In defeating Austin 34-20, Dallas moved to 6-0-1 and the Reds now have an eight-point cushion over new challengers, HARC, who also won.

“This was a game for our forwards,” said Dallas center Kelly Kolberg. “What the forwards did to get us possession made it easy for the backs.”

Irish lock Jonny Heron was, at 6-7, a force in the lineout.

“We won our ball and stole a lot of their throws, as well,” said Kolberg. “Jonny had a huge influence on the game and he’s really knowledgeable, too.”

Fullback Chase Haberstroh had a big game, as well, but the game belonged to the Reds pack. Flanker Chad Joseph was once again big for the Reds, stealing ball at the breakdown and earning Man of the Match honors. No. 8 Jeremy Nelson showed a high work rate and broke through the Austin line repeatedly.

The game itself was a tight one. “Austin brought it to us,” said Kolberg. Just before halftime the two teams were close when Dallas scored what turned out to be a game-changing try. After that they never looked back.

HARC, meanwhile, kept pace with a 42-15 defeat of Fort Worth, building on their huge victory over New Orleans the week before. At 5-1 HARC is just a point ahead of idle New Orleans for 2nd. Austin is 4th and the Dallas Harlequins, who won in a forfeit over numbers-challenged Woodlands, sit at 5th.

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RUGBYMag Men’s Club Rankings Feb 18 2014

February 21, 2014 By Dan Drabinski

WRITTEN BY ALEX GOFF    WEDNESDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2014 16:55
RUGBYMag Men’s Club Rankings Feb 18 2014
Rankings – Club Rankings
Seattle-OPSB heads up the first RUGBYMag.com Men’s DI Club rankings of 2014, with SFGG, Life University, New York Athletic Club, and Glendale following.

Mike Bobis photo.Mike Bobis photo.

OPSB is chosen because they have been playing extremely well in an enormously challenging league, the Okanagan Spring Brewery DI competition in British Columbia (7-1). In addition, the club has added several accomplished and high-profile players, not least of which is Lou Stanfill. That list also includes Mike Shepherd, John Cullen, and Peter Tiberio.
 

And they were among the best clubs in the country already.

That the #1 club in the country isn’t playing in a US league says something, and something not particularly complimentary, about club rugby competitions in the USA. That the #1-ranked club is also ranked that way for playing in the second tier of BC’s leagues (the BC Premiership is a step above) also says something.

SFGG is the #2 team, as they are 3-0 in the Pacific Rugby Premiership, even though they had a couple of close calls. Following them is Life, who don’t have any league of any description to play in. Their season will be a series of non-league matches.

So the top three teams in our rankings are not participating in USA Rugby’s DI club championship system.

NYAC’s #4 ranking is based on a solid fall season in the Northeast, while Glendale’s 2-0 start in the PRP put them at #5.

With the splintering of American club rugby into a variety of competitions, this ranking becomes even more important in assessing which teams are strong, but at the same time becomes more difficult to accomplish. USA Rugby CEO Nigel Melville said recently in an interview with Rugby Wrapup said that the Elite Cup going away is not in the club’s benefit, but also said “we’re still going to run the Elite Cup; it’s the Eastern teams.” The Elite Cup is not operational at present.

With seven teams in the PRP, one on its own in BC, three (Old Blue, Boston, and Life) hoping to keep some sort Elite-Cup-like series going on, and another, NYAC, that didn’t like the Elite Cup-plus-DI model and pulled out, and also with a variety of DI leagues, some of which are thriving and some of which are barely scraping through, and some which include the B-sides of PRP teams, it’s a foggy field indeed.

The seven PRP teams are all in the top 13, and in fact Olympic Club, at #13, are harshly done-by. This is not because we’ve bought into some notion that the PRP is automatically better than anyone else – it’s based on empirical evidence. Many of the teams in the PRP have already notched impressive victories over other clubs. All of the games in the PRP have been close, thus indicating that even the likes of Denver and Olympic Club (both winless so far) are still close to the top level in the PRP. That is why they are ranked.

Several leagues have clustered groups of fairly accomplished clubs – Red River, Mid-Atlantic, and the Midwest. It’s likely these will change as the games are played. Watch out for either Dallas or New Orleans to surge.

Not ranked are any of the three teams remaining in the West. We’d like to see them play. Not ranked also are the top teams in Northern California – Sacramento, Santa Rosa, EPA, Fresno. They all could be, depending on how their seasons progress.

Men DI Club Rankings 2014 Feb 19 2014
Rank Club League
1 Seattle-OPSB BC DI
2 SFGG PRP
3 Life University No league
4 NYAC Northeast
5 Glendale PRP
6 Belmont Shore PRP
7 Metropolis Midwest
8 OMBAC PRP
9 Santa Monica PRP
10 Denver Barbarians PRP
11 Boston Northeast
12 Old Blue Northeast
13 Olympic Club PRP
14 Dallas Reds Red River
15 New Orleans Red River
16 HARC Red River
17 Columbus Midwest
18 PAC Mid-Atlantic
19 Norfolk Mid-Atlantic
20 Baltimore-Chesapeake Mid-Atlantic
21 Kansas City Blues Midwest
22 Austin Blacks Red River
23 Milwaukee Barbarians Midwest
24 Los Angeles So. Cal
25 San Diego Old Aztecs So. Cal

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