West Coast Collegiate 7’s             Saturday, October 15, 2011          Talley field, Arroyo Grande, CA

Pool 1  Results                                                               Pool 3   Results

Cal Poly 33           Long Beach 7                            UCLA 27                     Davis 0

Cal Poly 36                     Lions 0                            Davis 14              Mustangs 7

Long Beach 21             Lions 15                             UCLA 31              Mustangs 5

Pool 2   Results                                                           Pool 4   Results

Gaels  19           Cal Maritime 14                    St. Mary’s 31                  Loyola 14

UCSB  17                     Gaels  15                    St. Mary’s 31                   Sierra  0

UCSB  12             Cal Maritime 7                           Sierra 29                  Loyola 5

                                                                     Semi Finals

BOWL              Maritime                Lions                                                      Mustangs            Loyola

PLATE              Long Beach           Gaels                                                      Davis                  Sierra

CUP                 Cal Poly                 UCSB                                                      St. Mary’s            UCLA

Finals                                                                                                                            Consolation

BOWL                    Mustangs  19       Maritime  5                                         Loyola                   Lions

PLATE                   Davis                     Long Beach                                        Gaels                      Sierra

CUP                        St Mary’s 31         Cal Poly  28                                        UCSB                    UCLA

In what must be the first ever of its kind, an all collegiate Rugby Sevens tournament, local teams Cal Poly and the Mustangs advanced to the finals in the Bowl and Cup divisions of the 1^st annual West Coast Collegiate tournament.   Cal Poly met perennial powerhouse St. Mary’s in the final, storming back from an early deficit with three second half tries only to run out of time, but not effort, in the closely contested final.  The fast-paced final delighted the crowd as the teams matched score after score, with the visitors barely hanging on for a 31-28 victory.  The Mustangs, Cal Poly’s B team, shook off two early losses to UCLA and Davis to win the Bowl Championship with victories over Loyola Marymount and Cal Maritime, the latter a 19-5 drubbing.  Rugby Historians are still combing the microfiche to document another all collegiate Rugby Sevens tournament.  Cal Poly will next move on to Moraga October 29^th and 30^th, looking for a spot in the National Qualifier and certain amount of revenge against the squad from St. Mary’s.   Determined at the tournament, the top teams from the west will play in USA Rugby’s Sevens Championship in Florida, Dec 17 and 18^th.  Also up for grabs is an invitation to the Collegiate Rugby 7’s Championship televised on NBC in June.  NBC has stepped up its coverage of Collegiate sevens and Rugby in general in anticipation of the return of Rugby to the Olympics in Rio 2016.  The Network will also televise the Final to The Rugby World Cup at noon on Sunday, October 23 when the hosts New Zealand take on the French for the Webb-Ellis trophy.  For more details on local rugby clubs check out www.calpolyrugby.com or www.slorugby.org.

Call Paul Cappellano at 541-1511 or pcap13@sbcglobal.net for more details