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RSL Recap (provided by Coach Bing Dawson) OMBAC 36 - Santa Monica 10. Santa Monica have entered the RSL and we will open the coming RSL season with them at their field on March 17th, which they have turned into a big event - their old boys day & their club day and banquet - they should be highly motivated. But as to our match with them this past weekend, which counts towards the D1 Ganey Cup, we expected a very physical match. We were going to be low on numbers of RSL players because of the USA National 7s camp being held at the Olympic Training facility in Chula Vista - there are 4 of our players that are in the 22 man squad. We got right on the board with a try by newcomer Anthony Chaffee (OPSB-#8). SM came back with a penalty, which we followed with a converted try by wing Ryan Claros to make it 12-3. SM scored a nice pressure converted try to bring the score close, 22-10, but with a penalty and another converted try by another newcomer from Minnesota, 20-year-old Joey Brown, [editor's note - Yes! Skol Vikings!]. The second half was a lot of SM slow pressure with their forwards and lighting quick strikes by our backs culminating in tries by former BYU and current Eagle standout, Jeff Hullinger, and OMBAC's top try-scorer, Jason Raven. With just 6 training sessions under our belts and going heavy on Kent Weyand's workouts we had to be happy. We did have a player sin-binned and that lack of discipline will not work for us and will end in a critical defeat. There are still a few more recruits arriving, and we will continue to be a bit of a broken team until the 7s players return from Wellington, NZ, and the Petco Park USA 7s. D1 Recap (Provided by Coach Clark Bernales) OMBAC 36 - Santa Monica 6 It was another day of two halves that ended much better for the D1 this past wknd vs SMD1. With the SM top flite players in the RSL match, it gave our squad a match to regroup from the error-prone loss against HB Unicorns. Still trying to adjust to each other, we fell behind early to two SM penalties 0-6. In the closing moments of the first half Chike Outlaw closed a beautiful 3/4 field, four ruck sequence that saw OMBAC go 7-6 at half. With the wind, we played the field position game smartly and had many lineouts in the attacking end. Our rucking pattern started to work more efficiently and yielded many overlap situations. Korbin Konrady was able to dot down twice as a result. Ryan Gallop capped off another sequence as did Ryan Mouritzen. Andrew Gray was sublime on the day with his tackling, counter attack from fullback, converting 4-5 kicks after tries, and one penalty kick. Final score - 36-6. Special recognition to centers Ryan Mouritzen and Craig Umemura for stingy defense and hard-nosed running always getting beyond the gainline. New prop Aaron Denaro threw a fire lit spear in the middle of our pitch by his aggressive play in defense, strong scrummaging, and support work. Richie Jeffries contributed well in the loose taking up balls no one else wanted and fielding many high balls that were not caught the week prior... D2 Recap (Provided by Coach Bryan Watts) OMBAC D2 7 - Riverside 48 Lost another tough one to Riverside (who was D1 last year) 7 to 48. This group is still getting used to playing with each other. After a rough start to the season last week this past weekend showed some improvement and they are headed in the right direction. The boys showed a lot of heart and determination after being in Riverside's end for about 10 minutes, finally crossing the line and scoring right on full time and then converting. This weekend we play SLO, which I do not know much about.
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