Cal Rugby Blanks Bruins by 100
by RugbyVet on Apr 2, 2011 8:15 PM PDT
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PrintThe UCLA Bruins (3-7, 1-3) were held scoreless today as Cal’s rugby Bears (20-0, 4-0) ran up a C-note’s worth of points in Westwood. Backs and forwards joined in the scoring spree. Nine Bears dotted down a total of 16 tries, including hat tricks won by wings James McTurk and Dustin Muhn. Pairs were scored by fullback Blaine Scully, lock Brendan Daly and hooker Jake Wrobel.
Coach Jack Clark rotated in a bevy of underclassmen after Cal hung 57 points on the Bruins by halftime. But with their substitution limit reached, the Bears had to finish the game two men short after injuries sidelined scrumhalf Paul Bosco and inside center Jared Braun.
Flyhalf duties were split by senior James Bailes and junior Alex Aronson. Bailes converted 6 of 9 first-half tries while Aronson went 4-for-7 in the second stanza, including a conversion of his own try.
Counting today’s match, the Bears have amassed 1,327 points and given up only 90 in overall play, pretty much on par with the 2010 season. Cal’s College Premier Division scoreline tops the tables at 345-to-14.
On Sunday, the Bears move across town to challenge the winless Claremont Dragons (0-6, 0-2). Claremont has ceded 44 points to both Central Washington and St Mary's recently. The shutout won by the Gaels dropped the Dragons’ scoreline to 27-to-88.
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Rough times for UCLA – men’s basketball guys going pro, athletic department screwing over their students for new student section seating, losing their hot-shot women’s basketball coach, and now a 100-0 loss in rugby.
Granted, I think the rugby score wasn’t really a surprise . . .
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losing their hot-shot women’s basketball coach
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I know this is a rugby thread…but gone to LSU…wow!
athletic department screwing over their students for new student section seating
what’s the story on this???
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Coach Jack Clark rotated in a bevy of underclassmen after Cal hung 57 points on the Bruins by halftime. But with their substitution limit reached, the Bears had to finish the game two men short after injuries sidelined scrumhalf Paul Bosco and inside center Jared Braun.
Do I understand this right? We were eventually down two ruggers and we still shut UCLA out?
Yes ...
… it’s true. Thirteen Bears walked off the pitch at fulltime.
by RugbyVet on Apr 2, 2011 9:10 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Any idea what the record for a rugby score is? A 100 point victory sounds outrageous, but I’ll bet the Bears’ have had bigger blow outs.
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I believe the final score of the Davis game was 104-0, so there’s that at least.
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Well, the Bears HAVE had bigger blowouts recently.
At the Las Vegas Invitational in February, Cal trounced Wyoming, a College Premier Divsion side, 107-5.
More lopsided was Cal’s launch of the 2010 season against DII Humboldt State — 152-0.
And in 2009 DI play, Cal put back-to-back a 109-3 crush of Nevada with a 105-3 stomp on Chico State.
The CPD season's biggest blowout was Friday night ...
When it was BYU’s turn to drop the hammer on the luckless Wyoming Cowboye. The score? 123-3.
Rugby scores today are like Fball scores back in the 1910's due to the competition.
When my High School started a team around 2000, they won every game by 100+ for a year or so until other people put in the time and caught on. With y’alls dedication to the sports (scholarships + great school) most other teams are perpetually far from catching up.
On a somewhat related note, I was on the UO men’s club team (for half a season) my freshman year, during which year the coach quit halfway through because too many guys didn’t care and were smoking too much pot. No way we belonged on the same field as Cal, to the point where 100-0 might actually feel like a moral victory.
There's a definite pyramid in college rugby
The College Premier Division was formed ostensiby to flatten things out — to incent teams to reach the bar set by Cal and BYU.
Within the CPD, Cal and BYU are still the acme. The second course includes St Mary’s. Life University and Arkansas State.
The third tier’s now led by Army, Navy and Arizona State, with everybody else in jumble behind them (you can make a case for a fourth and fifth tier and I won’t argue against you; I’m just saving keystrokes here).
This is just the first year of CPD action, so there’s been no relegation yet. Schools at the bottom of the CPD pile can be challenged by up-and-coming Division 1 sides for a place among the elite. Replacement of the bottom tier, of course, assumes that D1 teams have the interest and commitment to move up. It’s obvious that such commitment isn’t universal.
Ultimately, the CPD creates opportunity for the colleges to capitalize upon their brands and provides a better training ground for Eagles — the national teams.
It’ll take a while for things to sort themselves. In the meantime, those century scores are amassed to not only secure home field advantage in the quarterfinals, but to send a message into the finals. Obviously, Cal and BYU are spoiling for another tussle.
Oh .. by the way … about scholarships. There ain’t none at Cal. Rugby’s a non-scholarship sport. But it is a good school.
what's a bruin anyway?
Things at the southern extension are all messed up right now, and in comparison, it makes the situation at Cal seem like nirvana.
The hoops seating at Pauley is a total slap. Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t think of a school in the conference that treats the students as bad seating-wise as Ucla.
Then add losing Caldwell to LSU & the fiasco over their recent football coordinators, and you’ve got a pretty screwed up situation.
Makes you appreciate being the real UC all the more
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