Did anyone hear what the UVSC outcome was, I have a good friend playing on the team.

BlueNate wrote:

Did anyone hear what the UVSC outcome was, I have a good friend playing on the team.

They lost. Not sure of the score though.

BYU vs Cal scoring...

I did the best I could on the times. My angle to the scoreboard was not very good.

First half:
0-7 35:30
0-14 31:15
0-21 15:10
0-28 11:20
0-35 5:20
0-40 1:30

Second half:
0-45 39:15
0-52 21:25 Cal started subbing in 2nd string after this score.
7-52 10:05 St. Pierre scored.
7-59 8:20

BYU came out with far less intensity than they had against Colorado. They looked very tentative to start the game. Cal has three really big tall guys that control a lot of the lineouts. They had two very fast wing players. I only saw one BYU guy that could keep pace with them.

I'd guess that there were probably 4-500 BYU fans out of the 3700 finals attendance. Of course it's hard to tell since a good number of the BYU fans that I saw made no attempt to wear the school colors.

Also, many of the Cal fans wear a lot of dark blue but not much yellow (I'd do the same if I were them), and Penn State (lost the womens' final with no time on the clock to Stanford) is dark blue. The combination made it difficult to get a good estimate of the BYU support. Of course a couple of scores so the BYU fans would have had something to cheer about would have been helpful.

I tried to buy a BYU rugby shirt or a BYU anything shirt from the vendors at the north end of the field. They had Cal, Penn State, & Stanford items, but no BYU.

For what it's worth... I asked the guy running the biggest booth about it and he said that they had some problem regarding licensing fees but didn't have any problem with the other schools.

BlueNate wrote:

Did anyone hear what the UVSC outcome was, I have a good friend playing on the team.

UVSC lost to Radford 25-14. Tough day for Utah Valley teams.

Mars wrote:

Finishing #2 in the nation for the 3rd year in a row is nothing to sneeze at. Rugby has easily been our most successful sport this decade I would say, with lacrosse and volleyball right behind.

I agree. BYU has shown the ability to beat anybody except Cal. But then no one else seems able to beat Cal either. Cal has fielded a rugby team since 1882. According to the information in the program that I bought, rugby was Cal's first intercollegiate sport.

BYU's rugby success without varsity sport status is very significant. You could say BYU just repeated as the national collegiate club champions and Cal repeated as the NCAA varsity rugby champions.

Of the 327 D-1 schools, Cal is the only one where rugby is a varsity sport. BYU's rugby success without the varsity sport status is very significant. You could say BYU just repeated as the national collegiate club champions and Cal repeated as the varsity rugby champions.

Every year Cal has 50-70 players on the team. That depth gives them an advantage in tournaments like for the NC. Cal started several different players for the BYU game as compared to the St. Mary's game.

In the first round of the playoffs Cal benched their first squad for the entire game against Tennessee yet still won 102-3.

Overall, BYU is making fine progress with their rugby program. Cal is the program to which all other collegiate programs can aspire. Even though it is a varsity sport at Cal, they do not receive athletic scholarships like all the other varsity sports. Still they have a 98% graduation rate. Their success both on and off the field is phenomenal.

That we were the last one standing against them is a tribute to BYU rugby.