The Bears Hit the Highway to Salt Lake Metropolis this Friday
BERKELEY – Cal rugby staff travels to Salt Lake Metropolis for its final highway contest of the common season on Friday after they tackle Utah at McCarthy Observe and Subject at 5:30 pm PT.
“We’re planning to rotate the lineup fairly considerably,” head coach Jack Clark mentioned. “It is time to take some minutes off some gamers the place we are able to and provides some enjoying time alternative to others. It is thrilling to see how gamers react and carry out with new alternatives. For positive Utah can be prepared for us. We’ll have to be highway centered and dedicated to 1 one other.”
The Bears are 10-0 this season, following their win at dwelling final week in opposition to Central Washington. They defeated the Wildcats 48-19 because of a dominating efficiency within the first half. Cal crossed the try-line 5 occasions within the first half, together with a pair by Senior Nick Bloom. The Bears stored Central Washington out of the strive zone for the primary 35 minutes of the match and maintained the lead for all 80 minutes of the competition. One other two tries from junior Max Schumacher and a strive apiece from senior Jason Severance, sophomore Will Shankland, senior Jake Broekhuizen, and senior Jack Manzo clinched the victory for the Bears.
Sophomore Will Shankland has bolstered the beginning lineup this season, showing six occasions within the beginning XV and contributing 5 tries total. Fellow sophomore Tom Dixon can be becoming a member of the beginning lineup this Friday, his fourth look within the beginning XVs and ninth match total. Dixon has collected a pair of tries this season versus Cal Poly and San Diego Legion Academy.
Utah holds a 1-2 file this season, with solely three matches on the books as a result of well being and security protocols canceling their matchup with San Diego State early within the season. The Utes are coming off a troublesome loss to BYU on March 5. They had been defeated on their dwelling subject 57-5 by the Cougars. Utah was additionally defeated by UCLA 57-3 on February 26 however managed a 41-21 victory over Oregon on February 12.
The Bears and the Utes final went head-to-head again within the fall throughout the Pac-12 7s event hosted at Witter Rugby Subject. The Bears 7s squad defeated Utah 36-5. The final time the XVs groups had been scheduled to fulfill was again in March 2020, however the contest was canceled as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. Previous to that, the Cal XVs final met Utah in Strawberry Canyon for the 2019 Homecoming match the place they defeated the Utes.
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