Surrey school heading into rugby provincials ranked 10th<\/p>\n
Published 10:30 pm Tuesday, May 12, 2026<\/p>\n
It was a bittersweet game for several Grade 12 Lord Tweedsmuir rugby players during \u201cSenior Night.\u201d<\/p>\n
The senior rugby team played its final home game of the season May 1 and the school honoured several graduating players. Head coach Walter van Halst said the seniors were overjoyed to be playing a game they love, but there were also smothered by emotion as the post-game reality set in that this was their final game on their home pitch in Tweedy colours.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Friday, there were mixed emotions as the senior class \u2026 played their last ever game on their home field,\u201d said van Halst. He added the players were very thankful for a such a \u201cgreat\u201d Grade 12 rugby season, which included a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime\u201d overseas rugby tour. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll the graduating players were recognized at the conclusion of the senior night match and their mothers were presented with roses,\u201d van Halst said. \u201cI\u2019m going to miss this group when they graduate, but I can\u2019t imagine a better final game on their home field than this one.\u201d<\/p>\n
The game was a lopsided track meet with the Lord Tweedsmuir Rugby Panthers running in nine tries for a 61-7 drubbing of Chilliwack\u2019s GW Graham.<\/p>\n
In the massive win, Tyler Jones (inside centre) scampered in from 15 metres to record the first Tweedsmuir try of the match while Jerin Harinen\u2019s conversion made it 7-0 a mere two minutes into the match (his first of seven converts).<\/p>\n
Jack MacGregor scored two tries\u2014one on a streaking run down the left sideline and the other off a rambling maul, which formed after a lineout, that trampled both earth and Graham players on the way to paydirt.<\/p>\n
\u201c(It) was the best eight-man maul the forwards have executed all season,\u201d noted van Halst.<\/p>\n
He added that none of the senior players had quite the day Grade 12 flanker Caine Maggio had. Maggio registered four tries over the course of the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaine\u2019s individual effort was phenomenal, but I\u2019m even more impressed with his commitment to the team, his leadership of the forward pack, and his unselfishness all season long,\u201d van Halst said. \u201cHe is definitely one of the players who absorbed the most about our sport on our tour of New Zealand at Spring Break.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dylan Champion-Taylor and Harinen also ran in tries against the visitors to round out the scoring in what was a \u201ccrossover match\u201d between the South Fraser and Eastern Valley zones. Harinen also scored another 14 points on 7 conversions while Christian Parry slotted the 8th conversion on the ninth try for the Panthers<\/p>\n
The Panthers lost to South Delta Secondary 20-15 in overtime in their league semi-final game the week after on May 7.<\/p>\n
\u201c(It) was an outstanding game with an unbelievable show of heart by our boys,\u201d van Halst noted. \u201cThis week we have a bye and we are now ranked #10 in AAA tier 1 senior boys rugby, our school\u2019s highest ranking in many years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The kids will now spend the next couple of weeks prepping for the provincial championships\u2014having already qualified. Here is the roster for provincials, to be held in Abbotsford May 27-30, with graduating players noted in bold.<\/p>\n
ROSTER<\/p>\n
Brooks, Matthias<\/p>\n
Brown, Connor <\/p>\n
Champion-Taylor, Dylan<\/p>\n
Choi, Aiden<\/p>\n
Conlin, Landon<\/p>\n
Cutler, Alistair<\/p>\n
Etta, Melvin<\/p>\n
Gauthier, Elijah<\/p>\n
Gill, Arjun<\/p>\n
Harinen, Jerin<\/p>\n
James-Manu, Sebastian<\/p>\n
Johnson, Jake<\/p>\n
Jones, Tyler<\/p>\n
MacGregor, Jack<\/p>\n
Maggio, Caine<\/p>\n
Meberg, Finn<\/p>\n
Mindingall, Mekhi<\/p>\n
Ogden, Kaylem<\/p>\n
Parry, Christian<\/p>\n
Reid, Mathew<\/p>\n
Reinhardt, Gabe<\/p>\n
Ronning, Knight (IR)<\/p>\n
Sheppard, Wil<\/p>\n
Sheren, Sean<\/p>\n
Somyk, Nikita<\/p>\n
Taylor, Lucas<\/p>\n
Thiara, Manjot<\/p>\n
Thurston, Chase<\/p>\n
Tingstad, Owen<\/p>\n
Truong, Nick<\/p>\n
Vandenbosch, Riley<\/p>\n
Wagenaar, Ben<\/p>\n
Watson, Connor (PR)<\/p>\n
Young, Tahwayne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey school heading into rugby provincials ranked 10th Published 10:30 pm Tuesday, May 12, 2026 It was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-666395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}