Home game for PHS girls’ rugby team this Wednesday evening
Coach Phil Holmes wants to ‘pack the field’
by Charles Dickson
Shawville
May 13, 2024
Phil Holmes is pumped. The girls’ rugby team he coaches at Pontiac High School is competing in a match in Shawville this Wednesday evening, and they are poised to do very well.
“We want to pack the field for this home game,” said the PHS teacher.
“Our girls won the [regional] championship last year, their first year back, and they’re undefeated so far this year,” he told THE EQUITY on Monday.
After an eight-year hiatus, Holmes restarted the girls’ rugby team at PHS late last year. They played some exhibition games in the fall and have been training all winter long, one practice each week.
According to Holmes, Philemon Wright has . . .
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