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Bakersfield rugby team wins slugfest from Fullerton, 30-4Pre-match predictions called for a hard-hitting hard-nosed exhibition in yesterday's league encounter involving The Finlander Rugbv Club of Fullerton and the local Bakersfield Area Rugby. The 200 or so spectators weren't disappointed as B A R prevailed in the slugfest at West High. .10-4The Bakersfield back line proved extremely inhospita-. ble towards the visitors in 1 applying constant pressure, even though the Fullerton scrum did an outstanding job in winning a good percentage of the set scrums and line- . outsIt appeared the game was } decided in the rucks and ) rnauls, which saw the J Bakersfield forwards domi- ( nate from start to finish, as lt;they’ve done most of the j year, then pass the pigskin ) out to the on-rushing, talent- ' ed backs to sustain “second- j phase rugbyTerry McLean proved to j be the high-point man once I again yesterday, scoring two tries resulting from fine backline passing He was joined in the scoring column by Pat Preston and Steve { Lindsay, who each scored ! tries of their own; while j Mile Garratt booted one lt;penaltv kick and a timely 25- j yard drop-kick Mike Thomp- lt;son lofted three successful j conversion kicks )Mayer defeatsO i a i C /■The Bakersfield bunch enjoyed similar success Saturday in Santa Barbara vs UCSB. but the winning margin was much narrower, 13-6The locals found themselves on the wrong end of a 6 4 score late in the match after the Gauchos put two penalty kicks in the record book, one from about 50 yardsBut the BAR athletes seem to have a knack for getting it together at the end of the second half, and didn't disappoint their fans on thisSouth Africa net meet ends prematurelyJOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP' — The final singles match of a rain-plagued $150,000 international open tennis tournament scheduled for today was called off when finalists Bjorn Borg of Sweden and Guillermo Vilas of Argentina had to depart for other tournaments Bitterly disappointed tournament director Owen Williams said last night the final would be held in the United States, Europe or South Africa but he did not know when “It's all in the air at the moment the two players are committed.' said Wil-occasion as they sprung Chris Warren loose for a try to put them ahead, then enjoyed Ron Underwood's J “casual execution of a leftfooted. 40-yard dropped goal 1 i drop-kick i while a couple of the hostile natives were ‘ hanging on to his collar jLindsay accounted for BAR s first score, and Thompson convert ed one PAT This weekend, the Bakersfield ruggers trek to Monterey where they've accepted r an invitation to play in the Monterey National Rugby *Tournament in Pebble Beach, the unofficial national championship tournament They’ve drawn unheralded San Francisco for their first-round debut If victors, ^they'll go on to meet fourth- s,seeded Old Puget Sound Rugby Club in the octafinals. with prospects of meeting sCal Berkeley and The Bay JArea Touring Side if they keep winning A late-round championship pairing with the BATS would n prove interesting, since the San Francisco club visits s Bakersfield March 26. in the Great Rugbv Match, the s ' annual charity event spon-• sored jointly by Bakersfield 1 Area Rugby and Kern County Women's Rugby This year, proceeds will find their way to the coffers of Cal State Bakersfield's Special Olympics Fund for handicapped athletes Held at North High, the donation 0 for admission is $1 ^
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Bakersfield Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Mon, Mar 14, 1977
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