Ontario Blues

Ontario Blues

Logo
Full name Ontario Blues Rugby Football Club
Union Rugby Canada
Founded 2009
Location Toronto, Ontario
Ground(s) Fletcher's Fields (Capacity: 3,000)
League(s) Canadian Rugby Championship
Team kit
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 four 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. The Blues went on to win four straight Canadian Rugby Championships from 2011 to 2014 during a stretch where they were 19 wins and one loss over three seasons. Most recently, The Blues won the Canadian Rugby Championship in 2016.

Provincial Brand

In 2017, Rugby Ontario announced that their entire provincial rugby program would be branded under the name "Ontario Blues", replacing the "Ontario Storm" name which had been used for the women's team. The Ontario Blues name now encompasses all provincial representative teams of Rugby Ontario. This includes age-grade competition (U15-U18), development squads (U19 Men's and U20 Women's)

Fixtures

2009 Season

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

2010 Season

Date Home Team Score Away Team Location Notes
June 8 Ontario Blues 26–32 England Counties Crusader Park, Oakville, ON Preseason friendly
July 10 Ontario Blues 69–11 Midwest Thunderbirds Noem Perry Park, Sarnia, ON Preseason friendly
August 7 The Rock 33–0 Ontario Blues Swiler's Rugby Complex, St. John's, NL
August 21 Prairie Wolf Pack 15–13 Ontario Blues Calgary Rugby Park, Calgary, AB
September 4 Ontario Blues 55–20 BC Bears Burlington RFC, Burlington, ON

2011 Season

Date Home Team Score Away Team Location Notes
July 30 Prairie Wolf Pack 31–25 Ontario Blues Calgary Rugby Park, Calgary, AB
August 2 BC Bears 21–46 Ontario Blues Klahanie Park, Vancouver, BC
August 20 The Rock 7–41 Ontario Blues Swilers Rugby Complex, St. John's, NL
August 27 Ontario Blues 15–0 Prairie Wolf Pack Burlington RFC, Burlington, ON
September 3 Ontario Blues 21–19 The Rock Burlington RFC, Burlington, ON

2012 Season

Date Home Team Score Away Team Location Notes
May 5 Chile National Team 19–17 Ontario Blues Santiago, Chile South American Tour[1]
May 8 Salta Province 26–32 Ontario Blues Salta, Argentina South American Tour[2]
May 13 Uruguay National Team 16–27 Ontario Blues Montevideo, Uruguay South American Tour[3]
Aug 25 Ontario Blues 23–19 Atlantic Rock Oakville, Ontario
Sept 1 Ontario Blues 31–36 Pacific Tyee Burlington, Ontario
Sept 4 Ontario Blues 38–17 Prairie Wolf Pack Oakville, Ontario
Sept 15 Prairie Wolf Pack 17–32 Ontario Blues Langford, British Columbia
Sept 22 Atlantic Rock 16–40 Ontario Blues St John's, Newfoundland

2013 Season

Date Home Team Score Away Team Location Notes
May 4 New York Athletic Club RFC 23–38 Ontario Blues Travers Island, New York Friendly[4]
August 17 Ontario Blues Atlantic Rock Burlington, Ontario
August 23 Ontario Blues Life University Oakville, Ontario Friendly[5]
August 30 BC Bears Ontario Blues Westhills Stadium
September 2 Prairie Wolf Pack Ontario Blues Calgary Rugby Park
September 14 Ontario Blues BC Bears Lindsay, Ontario
September 21 Atlantic Rock Ontario Blues Swiler's Rugby Complex

2014 Season

Thu, Sep. 4
6:30P BLUES 28 (+1) WOLF PACK 3 Ellerlsie Rugby Park
Sun, Sep. 7
1:00P PST BLUES 30 (+1) BEARS 20 Klahanie Park
Thu, Sep. 18
8:00P EST BEARS 11 BLUES 29 University of Guelph
Sun, Sep. 21
1:00P EST WOLF PACK 29 BLUES 26 (+1) Peterborough Rugby Club
Sat, Sep. 27
3:00P BLUES 45 (+1) ROCK 5 Swilers Rugby Complex

2015 Season

CRC Schedule:

  Winners Advance to Final
EP
Sun, Jun. 28
1:00P BLUES 44 (+1) ROCK 22 Calgary Rugby Park
  Championship Game
EP
Wed, Jul. 1
1:00P WOLF PACK 33 BLUES 25 Calgary Rugby Park

2016 Season

DATE TIME   AWAY   HOME
EX
Sun, May. 22
1:00P BLUES 19 Alberta Selects 9 Ellerlsie Rugby Park
RR
Sat, Jun. 4
5:00P ROCK 22 BLUES 12 Burlington RFC
EX
Sat, Jun. 11
3:30P England Counties   BLUES   Fletchers Field
DATE TIME   AWAY   HOME LOC
RR
Sat, Jul. 2
3:00P BLUES 24 (+1) ROCK 13 Swilers Rugby Complex
RR
Thu, Jul. 21
6:30P WOLF PACK 0 BLUES 18 Fletchers Field
RR
Sun, Jul. 24
3:30P BEARS 21 BLUES 50 (+1) Fletchers Field

**With the win over the BC Bears on July 24, Ontario won their 5th MacTier Cup

DATE TIME   AWAY   HOME
EX
Mon, Aug. 29
6:00P Cork Constitution   BLUES   Twin Elm Rugby Park

2017 Season

Sat April 29-Ontario Blues @ New York Old Blue, Randalls Island NYC, KO TBD

Sat May 20-Glendale Raptors @ Blues, Sherwood Forest Park, Burlington, Kickoff: 3 pm

Sat June 24-Eastern Ontario @ Blues A, Oakville, KO TBD

Fri June 30-Rock A @ Blues A, Lindsay ON, 7 pm

Mon July 3-Rock @ Blues, Peterborough ON, 1 pm

Sat July 22-Blues @ Rock, Truro NS, 5 pm (League Game 1)

Sun Aug 13-Blues @ Wolfpack, Calgary, 530 pm (League Game 2)

Wed Aug 16-Blues v BC Bears, Calgary, 6 pm (League Game 3)

Sat Aug 19-Blues v TBD, Calgary, MacTier Cup finals Day (League Game 4)

Current squad (2017 Squad TBA)

Forwards

  • Rob Brouwer
  • Djustice Sears-Duru
  • Eric Howard
  • Andrew Quattrin
  • Ryan Surgenor
  • Pat Lynott
  • Hank McQueen
  • Mike Sheppard
  • Paul Ciulini
  • Andrew Wilson
  • Lucas Rumball
  • Jeremy Wright
  • Seb Pearson
  

Backs

  • Andrew Ferguson
  • Mario van der Westhuizen
  • Shawn Windsor
  • John Sheridan
  • Dan Moor
  • Alex Colborne
  • Jon West
  • Josh Campbell
  • Kainoa Lloyd
  • Rory McDonnell
  1. ↑ http://www.canadianrugbychampionship.com/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=2581&leagueID=6921&page=61640
  2. ↑ http://www.canadianrugbychampionship.com/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=2581&leagueID=6921&page=61640
  3. ↑ http://www.canadianrugbychampionship.com/leagues/newsletter.cfm?clientID=2581&leagueID=6921&page=61640
  4. ↑ http://www.rugbyontario.com/AboutUs/NewsStories/LatestNews/tabid/15402/sni%5B20577%5D/2883/language/en-US/Default.aspx
  5. ↑ http://rugbyontario.com/AboutUs/NewsStories/LatestNews/tabid/15402/sni[20577]/2919/language/en-US/Default.aspx
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