A couple of Island high school sports dynasties continued unabated over the weekend.
The Shawnigan Lake School Stags won their eighth sa国际传媒 Quad-A rugby championship in nine years with a 47-15 victory over St. George鈥檚 of Vancouver in the final at Rotary Stadium in Abbotsford.
Meanwhile, the Oak Bay Bays won their 12th sa国际传媒 high school track and field team championship in 16 years at Langley.
A highlight of the sa国际传媒 meet was in the boys鈥� 3,000 metres as silver-medallist Tyler Dozzi of Oak Bay and gold-medallist Charlie Dannatt of North Vancouver鈥檚 Handsworth Royals both swept aside the 42-year-old meet record to reach the podium.
Dannatt was across in 8:16:59 and Dozzi in 8:16.22 to both smash the old record of 8:21.27 set by John Martens of Burnaby South in 1975. Dozzi and Dannatt will be teammates next year at UBC.
Desirae Ridenour of Cowichan Secondary swept the girls鈥� 1,500 and 3,000 metres in 4:29.55 and 9:44.16, respectively.
Meanwhile, at the sa国际传媒 high school rugby championships, Oak Bay defeated Earl Marriott of Surrey 50-17 in the Quad-A bronze-medal game.
Carson Graham of North Vancouver downed W.J. Mouat of Abbotsford 36-7 in the Triple-A final.
The St. Michaels University School Blue Jags defended their provincial Double-A title with a 24-14 victory over Brentwood College in the all-Island final.
The Glenlyon-Norfolk School Gryphons made it a tripleheader of sa国际传媒 titles for Island schools in rugby by winning the Single-A championship with a 17-13 victory over LV Rogers of Nelson in the final.
Ian Leigh of Shawnigan Lake School, David Carson of Oak Bay, Sam Kahn of SMUS, Harrison Hooke of Brentwood College, Adam Laforest of Nanaimo District and Pierce Colpman of GNS were named to the Commissioner鈥檚 XV team.
