Bears have little trouble with Aggies

With a road trip up to British Colombia and a showdown with St. Mary’s looming in the near distance, the Cal rugby team needed a pair of convincing and solid wins to get its confidence back before its two most important matches of the year. After steamrolling UCLA last Saturday, Read More…

Cal looks to avoid trap in Davis

This weekend against UC Davis, the Cal rugby team will be switching up the starting lineup a little bit in order to give some additional guys playing time and experience. The squad will also be leaving on a bus the morning of the match. The last time the team combined Read More…

Cal gets back on track with lopsided win over UCLA

The world is back to making a little more sense. After three uncharacteristically close matches, including a loss to Cal Poly that snapped its 63-game win streak, the Cal rugby team returned to its dominating ways of the past, taking out UCLA 79-3 on Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles. The Read More…

Bears look to shore up play against UCLA

The Cal rugby team needs to get back on track. After three highly contested matches with mostly subpar play, the squad will head down to Los Angeles on Saturday to square off with UCLA at 1 p.m. The Bears faced the Bruins earlier this year at the Pac-12 tournament hosted Read More…

Cal escapes from Utah with win on late penalty kick

The Cal rugby team wasn’t going to let it happen twice in a row. Coming off an embarrassing 22-20 loss to Cal Poly a week ago, the Bears found themselves in an eerily similar situation Saturday against Utah, trailing 22-20 with just two minutes left on the clock. “We’d been Read More…

Cal heads to Utah looking to get back on track

After its reserves dropped the ball last weekend, the Cal rugby team will turn back to its top side to get a new winning streak going. The Bears will head out to Salt Lake City, Utah, taking on the Utes on Saturday at noon. “There’s some debate about who the Read More…

Lucas Dunne Rugby Feature

Great expectations

Lucas Dunne was one of the top running backs in the history of De La Salle football. Now, he's trying to make his name on the rugby pitch.

De La Salle is a football powerhouse. A nationwide name in high school football, the small private school in Concord, Calif., has put out names such as Amani Toomer, D.J. Williams and Maurice Jones-Drew. Yet despite the Pro Bowl appearances and NFL accolades of his predecessors, Lucas Dunne’s name is Read More…

The Cal rugby team saw a 63-game winning streak snap in a 22-20 loss to Cal Poly on Saturday. Carli Baker/Staff

Cal Poly snaps Bears’ 63-game win streak

With the Cal rugby team going into 2012 as young and inexperienced as it had been in recent memory, many expected that its win streak — which had grown to 63 games — would come to an end. But no one thought it would end against Cal Poly. The Bears Read More…

The Cal rugby team will play its final 15-player match of the season against St. Mary's on Sunday.

Reserves to get chance to earn starting spot

Winning all the time can’t be as easy as the Cal rugby team makes it seem. On Saturday, the Bears will head down to San Luis Obispo, Calif., to take on Cal Poly  in a match that might as well already be over. All the squad has to do is Read More…