Cal Maritime Ends Regular Season with Big Victory over San Jose State

(San Jose, March 24, 2007) – Cal Maritime traveled to San Jose State in search of bonus
points to keep their play-off hopes alive and scored fifteen tries on their way to the 95-5 victory.

Senior Joel Bruce opened the scoring before captain and fellow graduating senior Michael Schindler scored the second try.

Ten different Keelhauler players scored tries with Kyle Hirsh scoring his first ever hat-trick following some strong running.

Bobby Rather, David VanderHoek, and Ramsey Brown each scored a pair of tries.

Dave Bennett and senior David Lawson scored their first ever league tries while Andrew Spoonemore also added a five pointer.

Rufus Walker built a personal tally of 25 points by making 10 of 15 conversions and scoring another try for the Keelhaulers.

The result means that Cal Maritime await the results of Santa Rosa’s final two games to
determine who goes forward to the play-offs.

Cal Maritime concludes the regular season with a record of 4-2.

“We gained the bonus point and the players kept the scoreboard ticking over”, said coach Edward Roberts. “The players were composed and ended the season on a high and considering our relative in-experience they should be very proud of the way they played this year.”

Coach Roberts paid tribute to the three graduating seniors, “Joel Bruce, Michael Schindler and Dave Lawson have all provided good service to Cal Maritime Rugby and have helped us build and improve the program and we wish them well in their future rugby and maritime careers.
 

Cal Maritime
Tries: Bruce, Schindler, Rather (2), VanderHoek (2), Brown (2), Walker, Hirsh (3), Bennett, Spoonemore, Lawson
Cons: Walker (10)