it's really unusual to see two teens from the same sport a battle for a championship and in a state competition but belmont high schools girls and boys rugby teams will be out on saturday had such a great season really dominating a lot of games against some really traditionally great rugby teams going to every game we like to say cool calm collected and that's kind of the  way of playing the whole the whole year we don't play to the other teams often sore defense we play our style game and that's why we've been so successful now tell me you're going to be meeting boston college high school of last year's champion they've had you  them here and in the rain which you could be seeing them again in the rain on saturday what's the approach and perks of that game is just to continue doing our  magical kind of year where you've been never be you you haven't been really behind any team you've you've really taken it to them you've taken leads into this and to the second half and just expanded on it i mean it's it's the games are just  the product i mean we put in the work every day in practice and we've been practicing hard everybody skilled we work in a little things and it's paid off in the games and i guess other teams aren't doing it as well as we are and it's just it's just been working out so now let me just ask you a tackle tell me a little bit about why you're able to take on bigger teams and be successful against it's all just about the technique and tenacity so our coaches have really done a great job giving us all the techniques needed and then we've got back great  we've got that mongrel as we like to call it where we you know well we're not going to give up just because he was bigger than us because they're strong about us but we're going to fight the whole time and it's paid off so far so tell me a little bit about i know that you have a bit of a chance just before you go by example and show that our holding area pays off and hopefully that can trickle down with the rest of the kids you know i totally agree i mean we all practice together we're one club most teams have three separate freshmen j v very same team so we all practice together and you know it's fresher to seniors and we all know each other really stress that culture of you know togetherness and you know everybody knowing everybody else doesn't matter if you're a senior or freshman everybody helps out picking up after common give us a little piece of information here and they're just out of the blue and they're always really kind and helpful about that kind of thing and i'd like to think that i was a senior class has done a good job given that down to younger classes today so you've been i had about a week's worth of preparation how do you feel i feel pretty confident i know that none of us have ever been in this position before to win a state championship but i'm confident our guys and i know that we're one of the sins freshman year and we're just really really excited to play this game  junior on a senior heavy team i mean do you feel that there's a any kind of hierarchy on this team definitely i wouldn't i would say there's a real hierarchy i would definitely i mean i think it's really good for us seeing from all these seniors because all of them are so experienced and so talented so it's really helpful for us as a minority of the juniors being able to see them and what their they've put into this and how they've been so successful so i would call it a hierarchy more just learning from upper classman yeah we blend very well with the seniors like they do have a good job of getting us involved you know making us leaders also on the field on and off also but you know they they give us a lot advice and they set up for the future so tell me a little bit about the future i mean when you talk to freshman somebody who are thinking about getting into writing what do you tell them i think the first thing that i always tell them is how great the coaches are and how just great of culture it has to be and how much fun the game is because i really don't think that there's any sport i've enjoyed i've played a bunch of different sports i don't think there's any sport that i've enjoyed playing more than rugby and i think it's great because you're you're learning this in the game at the same time as you're like growing really invest and i think that the coaches do a really great job of kind of helping you get in that mentality in like the whole rugby culture and introducing you to it and i think it's just like a whole lot of fun yeah i mean the rugby team i tom that they have a great history obviously a success and you know just like sam said the coaches do a great job yeah we just it's just a great sport to be a part of now going to be playing a team that had a week of preparation and i think that we're really clicking well and playing some of our best rugby this season but they're very good team and i think that we would have to play our very best in order to beat them and likewise for them they're going to have to play there because i was going to win it's going to be a great game so here i am with two co captains from the belmont high school girls rugby team the defending champions defending champions and you are i'm a senior captain our co captain in center  just like i'm sorry we really try to exploit their weaknesses especially within the breakdown and we try to push him to the very end of the field so we can really kind of got to him is it because if you're a little bit more knowledgeable in rugby that they did you can negate their streng by knowing the game a little better than they do i think it's really a team effort i can see more of the play happening it's going but it's really about communication to me where to put the ball it was the space i'd say it's really about finding a space because they are bigger than onst and they're yeah i'd say that you know maintaining that level of stress but that's not too much that it's freaking us out is i think we're prepared for that already so it is it is so what is going to be like to go into the pitch for the last time as a high school student i don't want to think about it  me you're defending state champion and i'm going back to the championship game a lot of teams would love to have that opportunity what's your mentality going into this game you know i think it's a brand new year and we talk a lot about you know make us work for every every metre on the field and that's what we want right we want to good game we have to prepare for it so what about the perforation you've had ten days since your last game was more of a warm up but you know not to disrespect the needham but it was  it wasn't as hard as it will be against inside barry yes and in some ways that that was a benefit for us in that we got to try out different things we put people in different places and that allowed kind of our players to stretch and use a different skill set which hopefully plays itself on the field on saturday so i think we saw that game against something that we absolutely had to when we came out hard and aggressive but we also saw it as an opportunity to grow as individuals and as a team and i think we're kind of trying to use that over the ten days after that game to really prepare for every situation that could happen so that we walk in feeling confident that we know the decisions to make so just tell me about the how the team is approach it's been  confident going into a championship game i don't know i hope they are and they should feel confident but not too confident right they should feel confident in their own ability but they're requires hard work and i think that they're willing to do the work and i think that's really you know all the credit to the seniors who have essentially been out since the end of may and they graduated june third and they're still here every week in the first ones at practice and they're setting up the field and they're you know pulling people along and that mentality and that leadership really focuses the underclassman and makes them kind of aware of the normandie of this opportunity right it's not every team that gets the opportunity to step on the field on saturday and they take it pretty seriously one of the boys coaches said that he was one of th of the first ever four year players of the belmont girls rugby team which is pretty amazing but yeah that is actually a really big benefit is is at this point we have players that are coming into that  that have been playing for years and playing for years together and so they really understand each other and they understand the culture and the expectations in the game they watch the game and so they're you know they've built that themselves over the past few years and i really like that about rugby particularly here at the high school that that whether you're on the boys team or the girls team you walk in every player walks in kind of having maybe a little understanding about rugby is what allows you to build to gather up throughout high school which i think creates a unique