Rugby

It’s four wins from four outings for Paarl Boys High as they occupy the No.1 spot for this week on the SA School Sport U16 Rugby Rankings.

Paul Roos Gym make their appearance on this week’s SA School Sports First XV Top 100 Rankings and they manage to snatch the No.1 spot after completing a troika of victories.

There has already been several high profile festivals to kick start the 2019 school rugby season with the promise of more to come in the approaching weeks. With the majority of the leading teams in the country full engaged in the season we are looking at familiar faces at the top of this week’s SA School Sports First XV Top 100 Rankings.

The U15 Rugby Rankings as of this week bears a striking resemblance to the First XV and U16’s Rankings with most of the same teams are occupying the leading positions.

It would have come as a bitter disappointment for Menlopark last week when they faced Helpmekaar and were forced to concede their first defeat of what has been an incredible season.

Outeniqua have hit the ground running this year on the U16 Rugby Rankings and rise to the top at this very early stage of the season.

Monument sent Helpmekaar crashing out of the top 10 zone on this week’s U16’s Top 100 Rankings after putting in one of their best performances of the season.

Grey College managed to conclude their season with a well worked win over Paul Roos Gym and in so doing confirm their status as the leading U15 team on this week’s U15 Top 100 Rankings.

The 2018 school rugby season is still very much in its embryonic stage and the form and fortunes of many teams are bound to fluctuate during the course of a very busy season.

It was billed as the ‘season final’ as two of the country’s most successful teams in 2018 locked horns in what turned out to be a bitterly close affair.