{"id":24026,"date":"2019-05-20T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/playing-in-different-format-summit-high-girls-rugby-wins-third-place-at-nationals\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:52:00","slug":"playing-in-different-format-summit-high-girls-rugby-wins-third-place-at-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/playing-in-different-format-summit-high-girls-rugby-wins-third-place-at-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing in different format, Summit High girls rugby wins third place at nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.7986725663717\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-366162-886\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Summit High School Girls Rugby | The Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby team poses for a photograph at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale this past weekend. The Tigers finished in third-place of the eight teams who competed at the invite-only, single-elimination rugby union (or 15s) tournament at Infnity Park in Glendale.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>The Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby team poses for a photograph at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale this past weekend. The Tigers finished in third-place of the eight teams who competed at the invite-only, single-elimination rugby union (or 15s) tournament at Infnity Park in Glendale.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Summit High School Girls Rugby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby team poses for a photograph at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale this past weekend. The Tigers finished in third-place of the eight teams who competed at the invite-only, single-elimination rugby union (or 15s) tournament at Infnity Park in Glendale.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Summit High School Girls Rugby | Members of the Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby program pose for a photograph with their third-place plaque at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale on Sunday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Members of the Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby program pose for a photograph with their third-place plaque at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale on Sunday.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Summit High School Girls Rugby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby program pose for a photograph with their third-place plaque at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale on Sunday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Summit High School Girls Rugby | The Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby program poses for a photograph with their third-place plaque at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale on Sunday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>The Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby program poses for a photograph with their third-place plaque at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale on Sunday.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Summit High School Girls Rugby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/SummitRugby-SDN-052119-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby program poses for a photograph with their third-place plaque at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale on Sunday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/playing-in-different-format-summit-high-girls-rugby-wins-third-place-at-nationals\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/playing-in-different-format-summit-high-girls-rugby-wins-third-place-at-nationals\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">For the Summit High School girls rugby team and head coach Karl Barth, success at this past weekend\u2019s National High School Rugby Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale was defined in a specific way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Considering the Tigers, who typically play in the Rugby 7s seven-on-seven format, competed in the 15-on-15 rugby union format, Barth and the team\u2019s definition of success was \u201cto be perfectly who we are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Tigers entered the single-elimination, invitation-only, eight-team tournament with confidence in the union \u2014 or 15s \u2014 format, though. Summit had spent weeks prepping for it, including scrimmaging their elite, friendly rival United of Utah in the 15s format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe quality of play was unbelievable,\u201d Barth said of the nationals tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Confident they could compete with any of the other top squads at Infinity Park, the Tigers won their first game and lost their second game on Saturday before they sewed up third place on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Summit began the tournament Saturday morning with a 19-12 victory over Capital High School of Boise, Idaho. Summit got on the board quickly and led 7-0 thanks to an inside ball from one veteran, Nicole Kimball, to another, Clara Copley. A lightning delay followed and, once the half-hour break passed, Barth said Summit struggled with discipline. As such, they had to play a man-down through the majority of the rest of the game due to yellow and red cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Having the advantage, Capital stormed back to tie the game at 12-12 before Summit\u2019s Abby Daugherty effectively won the game when she scored with seconds remaining after she faked a pass and carried the ball right under the post. After CeCe Pennell converted her kick for a 19-12 lead, the referees blew the whistle to signify the end of the match and the Tigers\u2019 advancement to the semifinals Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cRight off the bat it was, \u2018You are playing a game you can win or lose,\u2019\u201d Barth said of the opener versus Capital. \u201c\u2018And, if you lose, you\u2019re done.\u2019 It\u2019s championship caliber. Obviously we made some big mistakes in terms of our discipline and a few others with regards to our decision making. But we played well enough to survive. It was exactly what we defined our success as. It was a great team effort, definitely maximum effort by everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the semifinals versus Catholic Memorial High School of Wisconsin, the Tigers fell behind early before they took a 7-3 lead on a Heidi Anderson pick off the back of the Summit scrum. The game remained knotted for a while after that, both teams holding the opposition in check from a defensive standpoint. Then, a Summit turnover deep in Crusader territory resulted in a game-breaking 95-yard score for Catholic Memorial. The Crusaders would eventually win 30-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cMentally, that was a tough one,\u201d Barth said. \u201cAnd, at that point, playing in our second super physical game, it\u2019s a different kind of fitness, 7s to 15s. It\u2019s much more wear and tear on your body. And then we got a yellow card. That kind of ended our run at that. So they put in a couple of tries and then a couple of more at the end. The girls played really well, but right at the end it got away a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Barth was proud of how this Tigers team, a mix of outgoing veterans and budding youngsters, rebounded Sunday morning. Taking on Grandville Rugby of Michigan, Barth said Summit made some tactical adjustments to take into account the size of Grandville\u2019s forwards and the skill of their backs. Once again, though, Summit was forced to play man-down \u2014 and 13-on-15 during a portion of the game \u2014 due to lingering discipline issues which were penalized by referees. The veteran Pennell kept the Tigers in it with what Barth described as \u201cone of the best try-saving tackles\u201d he\u2019d ever seen. Summit\u2019s Jasmine Peralta also made a clutch play when she knocked Grandville\u2019s critical No. 8 position out of bounds before she could complete a score. Dodging that bullet, Summit led 7-5 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Summit then focused on switching up some things tactically in the second half, in which Barth credited Pennell with standout organization and control of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cShe kicked a little more to help relieve pressure for us,\u201d Barth said. \u201cAnd then we still relied on some great play from our forwards, which still blows me away that\u2019s what we were led by. Because that\u2019s as 15s-y as you can get. Liz Thoma, Jordan Elam and Alice Porter were immense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Barth described that trio\u2019s physical, accountable play to that of old school fullbacks in American football, the kind who would keep control of a game via a \u201ctwo yards, and a cloud of dust\u201d march forward, as Barth put it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In helping to lead the Tigers to their eventual 19-12 victory in the third-place game, Kimball scored a try earlier in the contest before Summit\u2019s Kenzie Ricardi executed a textbook off-load to Copley to give the Tigers some breathing room. Then, after Grandville responded with a quick score to draw closer, Summit relied on a critical defensive play by Pennell to knock a Grandville player out of bounds, effectively ending the game as time expired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Looking ahead, Barth viewed the weekend as a positive experience for the Tigers, especially their forwards, who dictated most of the physical play in the scrums. There was also the revelatory play of young freshman Jenna Sheldon, who is an accomplished skier for Summit High.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As for more 15s, Barth said though the program\u2019s focus remains on 7s, he hopes there could be some more 15s play in Colorado come fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cHopefully we can build off of this,\u201d Barth said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports\/playing-in-different-format-summit-high-girls-rugby-wins-third-place-at-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summit Tigers High School Girls Rugby team poses for a photograph at the 2019 Girls High School Rugby National Championships at Infinity Park in Glendale this past weekend. The Tigers finished in third-place of the eight teams who competed at the invite-only, single-elimination rugby union (or 15s) tournament at Infnity Park in Glendale.Courtesy Summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:18:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}