ok let's do it so we here again in belmont just about to kick off b c high against belmont high school and i have peter alongside me great to be here on this wet cold blowing night and we're going to start with a knock on scrum to belmont so b c high kicked off belmont unfortunately knocked it on and as peter said scrum down to forward pass great offload bat the forward it's a tough night for ball handling ball slippery and it's going to be key to the game is maintaining possession is a slight wind great sign that the belmont flanker jumped on that ball as soon as it popped out really good awareness there absolutely want to put the ball and good strike again straight down the line great handing of the ball by belmont ice taken up strongly and then run clean ruck and knocked on again good tackling good fortunately there if it deemed belmont offsides and so have given a penalty to boston college likely they'll kick for touch here but will s yeah and they do so on a penalty like that and kick the ball out and then the kicking team will be able to put the ball in for the lineout so beaumont lines up looks like they have dropped one man out of the line so now they have  so again as peter said there's going to be a lot of screaming and so we had to reset the scrum there to get it steady belmont i mean you see how to put the ball and controlled at the back by sea high and out joe gets the ball up and lander great happen and beautiful play and they followed through strongly unfortunately it was not forward and in the in the  touch joe did the touchline and found a good touch basically on hoff way in the on the field so far it's been a very good game very very tight very close very safe very safe plays nice to see get the yardage move into the other half of the field and see what we can get going here absolutely and another good throw in now to the number of sole spinning it out five who puts a higher ticket high up in under and we're right there for the ball it's absolutely great kick beautiful kick a lot of pressure on the man fielding the catch and  you know it was really set up by that beautiful up in under creating some confusion there down around thirty meter mark and then setting up that scrum absolute man pick and then set up that beautiful face really perfectly played love you and believe it's going to be laurent to try scorer to see if you can get the conversion it's got a great foot wind has died down so there's really not not a factor at this point but it is slippery out there absolutely  poles and he put it straight through on a day like today there was conversions can make all the difference in terms of the w absolutely so now in in rugby the team that was scored on well actually kicked off and we'll see if belmont can control the ball here on the kickoff and get something going again i up and under it's a initially given the penalty but have chosen a scrum down they still retain positions or they get the feed because it was their penalty so interesting choice there but it was too i thought they might kick for church but good clean rock coming this side again by ross and then all i was driven into into touch and that was michael rodriguez taking the ball there and now beautiful beautiful strong run but unfortunately pushed into the touch which has given b c high the throne and they hook kevin will be throwing it into a  specially in this weather putting a lot of pressure on b c high belmont using their fantastic kicking game really effectively here in the first half and when you can do that well you really can create a lot of opportunities control of the ball and i wouldn't be surprised to see them set up some forward runs here and see if they can push this end so what you call peter number eight going to pick it up i think so here we go and he's going to take it in itself and that's sam sam a great solid run to you know nice team ball out the back down the line and just drew you see high across the field and george straightened up and went straight over for good try b c defense of lying got look like it got staggered up a little bit there and that creates a lot of holes which you can punch through which i think that's what exactly what happened there you know it's hard to defend when you've got peter you said that five me to scram and you know you can go either way and smart smart robbie none been very impressed with this but on one side you know this is only second game of watch but they've been very composed very you know concentrating on the game into it and another great puts it straight through the post again from the left hand side i was i was talking with coach bruce earlier today and he was really talking about the focus of this team and how cohesively they're playing and  how many players they have that have been here three and four years and provide this kind of leadership so that that ability to sort of intuitively know what your teammates are going to do and how you're going to play it really makes a huge difference absolutely and you can see it leave it there and then high school rugby you can't do that so we're going to scrum it again but it's a nice competition here between the two front rows and both pack saw putting a lot of pressure on each other high winds ball again they're going to play the kicking game russet the teller at the back takes it does a dummy runs up hard turns over gets the ball back good rock good the b c trial on the discipline tackling a belmont really needs to continue here on this goal line stand yeah you're right peter this will show now how disciplined when they still retained it and then said wasn't a knock on and on and out but taking it up strongly by their big men back down the line good hand you can see the pressure belmont's putting on them but managed to spin it out so here comes the conversion by b c high will see a tough kick off from the corner very tough kick and in rugby the ball comes directly out from where it was placed down in the tries on for the extra points five points for the try and two for the extras very tough kick he does have a bit of a wind breeze b walk it's wearing across the field so that's going to make it difficult as well  c and see how so belmont will kick off here and most likely we'll try to get a high up in under and get our players in there and try and rip the ball away says we re good awareness on the field there where the space was beautiful which he does find and it will be still they throw in as it was from a penalty and so they retain position of the ball and will throw it in the lineup elements done pretty well to disrupt some of these lineout if we can do it again here all right still indeed right still indeed and that was by max yes and someone playing some really good reg the p c i is unfortunately still and so it's a scrum to belmont in the middle of the field well in those involved in that came directly out the channel so they'll have to do it again well done and again all the strong scrummaging by belmont just really made all of that possible the forward work here is so beautiful and i'm just so impressed with the team where you're talking about cohesion that you know you're on about these guys it's just they really play well as a team and you know just watching these two games i can see it you know back at this and john's game when they were down two tries in the first fifteen minutes they just put their heads down and came back and then won that game can't comfortably and that team cohesion is is built on a lot of ways that at belmont rugby it's not just on the field and in practice and in the weight room they also do a lot of community service a grove street clean up recently in the campus clean up that's coming up in may so these boys really give to the community and i think that that adds to their sense of togetherness on the field  so we're just waiting for a ball to be come back onto the field which we have and it will be now the high to kickoff to belmont the school is now twenty one seven with thirty one minutes gone high up in under a very strong run recycled quick goal keeping it tight around the ruck b c hyde plays this game so well pounding their forwards and against the line in close another strong run by jack the number three now back down the line four b c high very difficult when you when you're mismatched in size and you have to double up on tackles it really leaves a danger of creating an overload for the other teams belmont doing a nice job getting up and spreading the field here so i want to turn this ball of a great piece of counter move by belmont here good discipline not to overcommit to another ruck stay spread in the defen so the scrum will be to belmont i mean to b c high and players in the middle of the field and that's it that is thirty five minutes gone and there's a beautiful first half of rugby really very clinical by belmont high very clean r disciplined defense getting into the backfield disrupting b c and the and the off and and playing some very smart field position with the kicking game very clever high kicks and the score is twenty one seven did not get the ball down but have been given another penalty for not retreating i think when he took the quick penalty i think the oh good tackle by b c high again belmont trying to run that eight man pick out of the scrum and then didn't work that time always been turned over b c high getting set up for a kick good opportunity here me to get back in support oh too bad too bad knocked on by michael rodriguez who just couldn't handle the unfortunate he had a nice line there and knocked on and in penalties been awarded offsides i believe to be s do a good kick to the touchline and we'll have the throw in because it was a penalty so they retain possession of the b nice offload doesn't do a lot of offloading that was very pretty good hands again concentration keeping the ball alive and need to recycle penalty they're calling belmont off off their feet in the ruck you have to maintain your maintain your position and keep your feet on the ground are right that looks like ethan anderson and conor shea coming in i have wearing different numbers than we have on our list nathan two very good players who are getting a nice nice chance to play varsity this year started out in the both players started out last year in the developmental side and really worked their way up and that's  good hard workers quickly so that nothing gets jammed up in the kids don't get hurt there if is issued a yellow card for that dangerous tackle and so the player will go to the sinden for ten minutes so b c high have taken advantage of that penalty and kicked it deep into belmont twenty two and will have a lineout probably five yards out from the tro dangerous spot here good feed by good seed good left by b c high with a strong drive a and drive it up strongly belmont's defending as hard as they can and looks like he has dropped the ball in the attempt for a try very good defense that's the that's the trick coming back on so you have to have a front row with the man being sent coach great bruce had to reorganize  was ryan cameron very nice defense by belmont way to get it out and create some space for themselves frazier on on on the follow up there very nice to see like someone's receiving some attention on the field can't see who it is the front row a number of series of commands before they actually engage and if anything looks a mess up there in the front row or anybody looks like they're going to pop out hell call it back up again safeties first d c i gets a ball still retain the b great strong kick relieving a lot of pressure and a lot of pressure just what the doctor ordered for them and giving the forwards a breather as they get ready for the or i believe so good hands good tackling good defense tax sometimes very difficult to keep the tackles low when the in man driving is slow and self couldn't find touch on that penalty kick in belmont has a chance to counter attack here just like a run by with the tyler i think you'll on quite see from here going smoothly down the back line without any knock ons they make the game line beautifully and then fade back down the line towards us this time and this is what belmont needs now is to get some phases and everyone at some point in their lives i would say yeah especially in cold weather absolutely and hoping it's just cramp and nothing more to the injury but i could be wrong one of the issues on a cold damp night is that you may not feel thirsty you may not actually drink enough water during the minutes that you have and that can definitely lead to cramping that's a very valid point strong solid scrum b c high actually getting advantage there just short of the line this is where i want need to be careful not to lose the ball and feed it back and it's taking the right thank you to fully fit it back from the rock and picked it up and went on the blind side which is the short side and court b c high knapping great awareness by belmont of where the where the gaps were all the way on that dr beautiful job to whether a really strong push by b c high who had the momentum much of the half and then belmont able to seize it again put some phases together and then punch the ball in with some strong forward play really beautiful rugby at sci fi p that it was really nice to see and the scores knocked twenty six seven to belmont it's so good so gratifying to see that the growth of high school rugby you know i started playing high school rugby in one nine hundred eighty three not to date myself and there were only a couple of teams in the state and i'll tell you the level of and the seriousness with which the sport was taken they just it just isn't it wasn't the same and we have come so far in thirty years to the point where you know this is now the second years of our city sport and what are what i understand is this program here that greg bruce is spearheading is kind of everybody else is looking and seeing ho tough kick from the corner missed by belmont so school was still twenty six seven with now sixty minutes gone in the game now i agree i think that the the belmont program got some wonderful press in the boston globe talking about rugby the way it should be and it really is absolutely so belmont secure looks like  high penalty to belmont and they will slow it down a bit and kick to  in the reason for that to that the man taking the ball and was held apple for the ground and it was deemed a mole and so if the ball was not recycled it gets turned over to the other team through and that rugby ball does bounce every which way my b c high retains feeds it down the line with the number ten doing a lot of running tonight good tackling by forwards get back from