{"id":20780,"date":"2018-05-31T11:43:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20780"},"modified":"2018-05-31T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:43:29","slug":"saints-rugby-champion-team-come-along-once-in-a-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/saints-rugby-champion-team-come-along-once-in-a-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints rugby champion team \u201ccome along once in a career\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe St. Andrew\u2019s College Saints are the CISAA rugby champions, and it was never even close.<br \/>\nAbsolutely dominating the independent league competition with a combination of speed and size throughout the five-game regular season, St. Andrew\u2019s had never won a game by less than 20 points.<br \/>\n\u201cTeams like this come along once in a career,\u201d said Jon Butcher, 1st Rugby head coach. \u201cIn 30 years of coaching, this is by far the best team I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<br \/>\nFacing the 2 \u2013 3 Appleby College in last week\u2019s semifinal, the Saints came out swinging with six first-half tries, taking a 34 \u2013 5 lead into the intermission.<br \/>\nWells Karabin led the way in the latter half with a pair of tries to cap off a hat-trick performance, while Campbell Clarke was able to convert an impressive four times for a final score of 68 \u2013 5, setting up a Saturday morning championship match at SAC\u2019s Malone Fields with the rival Upper Canada College Blues.<br \/>\nSt. Andrew\u2019s entered the match as the clear-cut favourites to win their first CISAA title since 2013, having taken down UCC in the final league game 52 &#8211; 10 two weeks prior, in what Butcher believes to be the largest victory over the Blues in his time with the team.<br \/>\nIn a game where Butcher said the Saints were \u201csimply a class above the rest\u201d, Will Abbott and Ian Mclean each capitalized twice in a 41 \u2013 7 final, while Matthew Hollett and William Wang added a try each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Andrew\u2019s College Saints are the CISAA rugby champions, and it was never even close.<br \/>\nAbsolutely dominating the independent league competition with a combination of speed and size throughout the five-game regular season, St. Andrew\u2019s had never won a game by less than 20 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2018-05-31-14.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}