Aldergrove Secondary graduates Megan Hamm, Elyssa Phillipson, Randi Hunter and Sonya Foulds were part of a Womens National Rugby Championships, July 1-3 at UBC, winning all three of their games convincingly.
The British Columbia Under-23 provincial team captured the Tier Two National Women’s League championship after a convincing 87-0 victory over New Brunswick on Sunday morning. B.C. went 3-0 during the competition, having previously defeated Ontario’s U23 team 49-12 and Saskatchewan by a score of 34-10.
B.C.’s kicking prop Randi Hunter was again at the forefront of their attack, producing a game-high 22 points against New Brunswick through two tries and six conversions. Kayla Moleschi recorded her second hat trick of tries, having notched three in B.C.’s opener against Ontario. Tries were also recorded by B.C. captain Jesse Olynyk, Abby Goodwin, Christie Auzins, Erin Grant, Sara Byers, Melissa Leblanc and Megan Banford.
“We’re strong in the forward pack and in our backs. We hit the gaps and did a lot of off-loading and it worked to our advantage,” said Hunter after the game.
“We worked really hard throughout the last few months to get here and we’ve just proved that we are the better team and we played our hearts out,” she added.
“We knew going into [the tournament] that this was the year that we could get some of the best players at this age group together. It was quite a dream team for B.C.,” said B.C. captain Olynyk.
Hamm and Hunter have been invited to play for the CIS University All-star Team, to play two games against the All American Collegiate All-Stars in Saranac Lake, New York, at the end of the month, July 28 and 31.