Tigers Rugby capped a 36-match Spring 2010 season with a respectable 24-10 loss to the Aurora Saracens in Rugby Colorado’s State HS Boys Rugby Championship Tournament’s Quarterfinal Match.
Seniors Albert Whitemore & Alejandro Lucero (Holy Family HS), Zach Underwood, Jarred Riemer & Bobby Stomski (Standley Lake HS), Matt Dominguez & Daijon Tyler (Pomona HS), and Peter Loving (Ralston Valley) will be sorely missed as leaders and playmakers. Tigers Rugby Football Club finishes the season at 11-23-2 overall: 7-10 A side, 3-6-2 B side, and 1-7 Freshman/Sophomore side.
Sophomore Second Row, Walker Prieb (Man of the Match) gave the Tigers life at the the break with a pop kick, followed into goal by a swarm of Tiger forwards, where Patrick O’Connor touched it down to tie the match 5-5.
Aurora’s replaced their flyhalf with a bigger and better version of the original, who broke away 10 minutes into the second period. The conversion made the score 12-5. The rascally Aurora scrumhalf finally broke free, followed soon after by the Saracen 8-man for another try.
Replacement players were effective on both sidelines. King Medlin closed out the scoring for the A side, touching down his first A side try at the end of the second period. Tigers players and coaches, though disappointed, were all smiles in thinking of the immense possibilities with 35 players pledging to play together next year.
Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
2010 Tigers Rugby Season in Review
2/20/2010 Denver East Invitational 0-22 A side, 5-0 F/S, 5-5 B side (1-1-1)
2/24/2010 Northside Vikings 24-5 (2-1-1)
2/27/2010 SWARM 22-14 (3-1-1)
3/1/2010 Fresh/Soph Festival #1: Regis 10-12; East 5-17 (3-3-1)
3/3/2010 Cherry Creek 29-7 (4-3-1)
3/6/2010 Boulder vs. B side 17-25: Boulder vs. F/S 0-12 (4-5-1)
3/10/2010 Regis Jesuit HS 7-20, B side 17-5 (5-6-1)
3/13/2010 Spring Fling Tournament: East 5-41; Aurora A side 5-12; Aurora B side 17-15; Fort Collins vs B side 0-5, A side 45-0 (7-9-1)
3/17/2010 Aurora A side 5-19, B side 7-17 (7-11-1)
3/27/2010 Aurora A-side 7-5; B-side 10-15 (8-12-1)
4/3/2010 RMC Tournament: Northside 7-12; Aurora 22-12; Northside 20-18 (10-13-1)
4/5/2010 Fresh/Soph Festival #3: Cherry Creek 10-20; Wolverines 0-15 (10-15-1)
4/7/2010 Denver East 0-59; B side 31-41 (10-17-1)
4/14/2010 Wolverines 25-45; B side 50-0 (11-18-1)
4/19/2010 Fresh/Soph Festival #4: East 0-20; Cherry Creek 0-15 (11-20-1)
4/21/2010 Colorado Springs 7-108 (11-21-1)
4/28/2010 Ranch Rugby 19-19 (11-21-2)
5/1/2010 State Quarterfinal: Aurora 10-24, Denver East B 0-32 (11-23-2)
5/22/2010 (Saturday) State All Star matches, location TBD
