Game Reports

December 10, 2004 - Cal Maritime 15 v UC Davis 5
On the final game before the end of the semester every player had a chance to
play and show his skills. The team was decked out in the new uniforms and
certainly looked the part. It was strange to see the team with all the players
wearing the actual number of their position. A very welcome change. The team
played well in parts with some players making telling breaks and the forwards
making the hard yards. With some better continuity those breaks might have
released others to score. Two rookies, Chris Flannery and Casey Helget,
scored their first try with Matt Shotwell adding the third.
*MVP – Chris Flannery

Referee Report (www.pelicanrefs.com)
Cal Maritime 15 v UC Davis II/III 5
Referee: Bruce Carter
Touch Judges: Lee Vanjoff, Parker Carlisle
The lovely hilltop pitch on CMA’s Vallejo campus was the setting for another
Friday night under the lights rugby game. The Maritime Academy and UC Davis
are tuning up for the coming season.

Davis, who would be playing Cal Poly in two matches on Saturday, sent a
reserve side with coach Ray Schwartz. Which leads to one of those infamous
rugby conundrums: if multiple vehicles containing seventeen players, a coach,
and a set of rugby jerseys leave the same place at roughly the same time for a
destination about forty miles away, which vehicle is GUARANTEED to be late?
So the motleys kicked off to the team in solid blue.
The Keelhaulers, dressed in blue, scored first and last.
Injuries to the Aggie front row led to the following dilemma: the game could go
to uncontested scrums or Ray Schwartz could be allowed into the fray. The
referee made his decision but Ray came on to prop anyway.
If Ray thinks that he wasn't penalized for ‘hooking’ the ball in the scrum with his
hand because the referee didn't see it, he hasn't yet realized that membership
in the referee society has privileges beyond even the meeting of his then-future
wife!
The Dungeness crab was particularly good afterwards.