Ontario Blues

Ontario Blues

Full name	Ontario Blues Rugby Football Club
Union	Rugby Canada
Founded	2009
Location	Toronto, Ontario
Ground(s)	Fletcher's Fields (Capacity: 3,000)
Coach(es)	Rob Doyle
League(s)	Canadian Rugby Championship
2010	3rd
Official website
www.rugbyontario.com

The Ontario Blues are the senior men's representative rugby team for Ontario. They were founded in 2009 to compete in the Americas Rugby Championship against other representative teams from Canada, Argentina, and the United States. In their inaugural season, the Blues suffered narrow losses against British Columbia and the Wolf Pack before defeating the Rock to advance to the Canadian Final. The Blues would again lose to BC, but defeated the U.S. Selects in the bronze medal match.

In 2010, the Rugby Canada changed the format of the Canadian competition of the ARC, introducing the CRC. The 4 Canadian teams which competed in the ARC stayed the same, but now played in the CRC, with a Canadian Selects team being chosen from CRC players, and that selects team going on to represent Canada at the ARC.

2009 Fixtures

Date	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Location	Notes
August 22	Midwest Thunderbirds	5-38	Ontario Blues	Moose Rugby Grounds, Elkhart, IN	Preseason friendly
September 12	BC Bears	29-24	Ontario Blues	Brockton Oval, Vancouver, BC
September 19	Ontario Blues	13-14	Prairie Wolf Pack	Fletcher's Fields, Markham, ON
September 26	Ontario Blues	32-5	The Rock	Fletcher's Fields, Markham, ON
October 10	BC Bears	12-8	Ontario Blues	MacDonald Park, Victoria, BC	ARC Canadian Final
October 17	U.S. Select XV	24-27	Ontario Blues	Fletcher's Fields, Markham, ON	ARC Bronze Medal Match

Current squad

Squad for the 2011 Canadian Rugby Championship season

Props Tom Dolezel Craeg Johnston Dan Pletch Doug Wooldridge Hookers Mike Pletch Locks Robert Brouwer Brett Beukeboom Scott Dunham

Loose forwards Tyler Ardron Alistair Clark Mark MacSween John Moonlight Seb Pearson Half backs Kyle Armstrong Rory Tomlinson Fly halfs Steve Piatek

Centres Conor McCann Dan West Wings Ryan MacSween Marcus Mitchell Taylor Paris Jordan Wilson-Ross Full backs Craig Marshall Liam Underwood

External links

• Rugby Ontario website
• ARC website