World champions in 2017, the Borde-Basse high school students once again distinguished themselves by becoming French UNSS rugby champions after a flawless run.
They returned as heroes covered in gold from the School Rugby World Cup played in Japan in 2017. Just over 5 years after this real feat, the students, staff and teachers of the Borde-Basse high school will be able to train again a guard of honor to celebrate the new title of the rugby section of this Castres school.
Leaving Tuesday for Voiron (Isère) to participate in the final stages of the French school rugby championship, high school excellence category, the young rugby players from Borde-Basse returned with the title of French champion. Champions of Occitanie UNSS, the proteges of Pierre Robin and Eric Charavel had first won the financial match by managing to raise the necessary funds to be able to travel to the Grenoble region. Once this first pitfall had passed, the team then turned to the more sporting aspect of these final phases which were played with 10 players. “. “The scrums are simulated, so we favored mobile players in front, mainly third lines but also three-quarters usually in club” had explained Guillaume, coach of the back lines and Raiatua, responsible for the forwards, before the start of the competition. . A visibly paying choice since against players from Castres Olympique, Sor-Agout, Mazamet, Lavaur and Aviron Castrais, Dijon (33-7), Bourgoin-Jallieu (24-12), Dax (43-0), Toulouse (29-0) in pools, Issoire (19-0) in the semi-finals and finally Bourgoin (22-14) in the final did not measure up.
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