Congratulations to both Holliswood Rugby teams for their high-level of Rugby that they exhibited this past weekend on Randall's Island during Play Rugby USA's 3rd Annual Mayor's Cup Rugby Festival. After going undefeated in pool play, the Holliswood Middle School team placed in the highest bracket in contention for the Mayor's Cup. Unfortunately, after a grueling match against the team representing France, where we both pushed the game to sudden death after a 2-2 tie at the end of regular time, the Middle School lost 3-2 in this quarterfinals match.
The Holliswood Elementary team are the proud owners of the Runners Up plaque in the Cup finals. This was the Elementary team's first year competing in the Mayor's Cup and placed very well considering only 3 practices prior to this event! Once again, as did the Middle School team, 3-2 was the final score of the Elementary finals. After a very competitive game played by both teams, (Holliswood representing USA and Epiphany representing Ireland) the game was also tied at the end of regular time, but won by Ireland in sudden death extra time.
A special honorable mention to all the graduating Middle School players that will be graduating this year, as well as 5th graders that will be moving on to other schools, your presence will be missed and the Holliswood School appreciates your fine representation of our school in all of the Rugby events throughout the past 3 years. Also, the Holliswood School hopes that you continue your participation in Rugby in high school and the future.
