Monthly Archives: October 2012

Match report HCRFC vs. Macon Love 10-06-2012

15s Matrix Season, Atlanta Rugby, Uncategorized

By Dion Rabouin

ATLANTA – The men of High Country again defended their home pitch on Saturday as the team defeated Macon 37-7.

The Macon Love were shorthanded in a few key areas and High Country was able to take advantage. The team got two scores from fly half Troy Albright, two more from center Garrett “Arian Nation” Hilgendorf and a try each from Anthony Limardo and John Koury.

All the scoring in the game came from the back line, but forward Jack “Wub Wub” Mizell believed it was really the pack who deserved the glory.

“We carried a lot of backs to trys today,” said Mizell, who last week complained profusely about not being included in the game story. “I had to shove, like, three backs into the try zone. I carried [Albright] in and then chipped [my] tooth.”

The men of the match were prop “Slim” Rob Armstrong for the forwards and Hilgendorf for the backs.

Limardo agreed with Mizell’s assessment, at least in regard to his try.

“[The forwards] basically picked me up and put me over the try line,” he said.

The scrum half, who missed last week’s game against the Bucs to attend a hippy jam fest, said that he knows he and other key players will have to take their game up a notch in the future.

“It was still a good match,” Limardo said. “We gotta be disciplined and not show up late and drunk [to the game].”

The team’s numbers were an obvious asset in the win over the Love, as was their fitness. remarked head coach Mitch Jaffe praised his team for showing up ready to play.

“We need to work on offloads; our scrums need a lot of work,” Jaffe said, “but we were fitter than our opponent, that’s for sure.”

Despite scoring his first try with the club before this week, Koury did not perform a Zulu -and thus had to perform it after Saturday’s game.

“It looks like a mushroom head in a bed of lettuce,” remarked Jaffe during Koury’s Zulu.

In addition to his unattractive genitals, Koury’s head was bleeding conspicuously during and after the game, but rather than go to the hospital he poured water on it at the pitch and then drove to the team’s social drink-up.

“I’m tired,” Koury replied when asked how he was feeling. “I did a Zulu while bleeding from the head. But I had a good time, I enjoyed it.”

The team’s next scheduled game is Saturday October 13 against Montgomery (Ala.), on the road.

Match report for HCRFC vs ATL Bucks 9-29-1-2012

15s Matrix Season, Atlanta Rugby, Uncategorized
By Dion Rabouin
ATLANTA – In the first home game of the fall season, High Country wasted little time putting up points and made a habit of it throughout a lopsided win over the Atlanta Bucks. Despite a gaggle of newcomers and a few missing veterans, the game was never in question. High Country won big, 82-17.
“For the most part, mission accomplished,” head coach Mitch Jaffe said to his team after the win. “You rucked well, hit holes hard and at pace.”
High Country got scored almost immediately off the opening kickoff and never looked back. Newcomer Doug Deer got the scoring started from the fullback position, finishing a long breakaway by center Edwin Bono with a try. Deer scored twice in the game and was selected as the man of the match for the backs.
Deer’s try was followed by four unanswered scoring drives, all with long breakaway runs by High Country players in both the forwards and the backs. High Country led 31-0 going into the game’s first break. The Bucks were low on numbers and rather than two 40-minute halves, the game was broken into four 20-minute quarters.
No matter the game’s timing, Jaffe said the win came down to solid fundamentals.
“We had good rucking, good unselfish play, decent tackling – not great – and good offloads,” he said.
The dominance continued into the second period where High Country outscored the Bucks 12-7 to take a 43-7 lead into halftime. One man who didn’t get on the board in the first half was High Country captain Troy Albright. That was apparently intolerable for the fly half.
“I went to the sideline and said to myself, ‘Troy, this is unacceptable,” Albright said. “There’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is a ‘me.’”
Albright scored three tries in the second half.
Corey NaLampoon, who stepped in at 8 man and scored his first try of the season to begin the second half, was selected as the man of the match for the forwards. He gave the credit for his success to some great mentoring.
“I had never played [8 man] in my life,” he said. “I was a little nervous at first, but under the tutelage of Jonathan M. Fine I was able to work it out.”
Nalampoon also pointed to a solid nutrition program he adhered to the night before the game.
“I didn’t have a heart attack, you know, I had sushi last night and didn’t crap myself,” he said.
The Bucks got two scores from their captain Joe Pennington and the third from High Country’s Mark Primavera, who was subbing in for the shorthanded side.
Deer’s two tries were his first with High Country and thus after the game he was welcomed to the club by performing a zulu.
High Country was bitten slightly by the injury bug with back Abram Vera and forward Lee Meche leaving the game with injuries. Coach Jaffe was less than impressed with Vera’s attention to injury, noting, “Ligaments are like rubber bands. Plus, Abram is a jackass. Make sure you write that.”
Next week, the team will play at home against league foe Macon at Walter Park.