Rugby recruiting up after Doyle removed, Lacrosse drip check goes well

The Mount Carmel Rugby team is one of the smaller teams in the athletic department, but that won't let them stop trying to grow. Matthew Doyle, a sophomore whose passion for the game extends beyond the field, has taken it upon himself to try to get the Mount Carmel student body to play the ferocious sport. Doyle asks his fellow classmates to play the sport so often that whenever he opens his mouth to speak in class some students have an automatic response of “No, Doyle, I do not want to play rugby.”

But Doyle does not limit himself to his classmates, he reportedly asked almost every shadow that has viewed Mount Carmel to play rugby, only one expressed interest in playing the sport. 

That is why Mount Carmel breathed a sigh of relief when the rugby coach told Doyle that he would bench him if he did not stop pestering the student body into playing. And it worked. Naath Kulatunga expressed his interest in playing for the rugby team and fit in well. 

“Now that there is not someone bothering people to play I decided to try out and make the team," said the MC junior. The rugby team has eyes turned towards them as students now are expressing their interest to join the rugby team. “I am thinking of rejoining the rugby team now that they are starting to respect people's decisions,” said sophomore James McCormac who is a former member of the rugby squad. 

The rugby team has not seen success in other departments, too. After adopting a new strategy called “Give Big Sam the Ball,” a unique strategy of giving senior Sam Singleton the ball, the team is starting to win games and has made it to the playoffs. 

In other news, the lacrosse team has had six players named for the All-Conference team due to the amount of drip that they have. Drip comes in the form of tilting the helmet, wearing eye black in outrageous patterns, and arm sleeves and leg sleeves. The selected players wore their helmets in a way that they could not see the field at all and played only by instinct. 

“I think the selection was very fair," said sophomore Zander Gorman, one of the honorees. "I am very surprised that so many people from Mount Carmel were able to make the team, because The Dark Lord [Coach McGuire] only allows us to wear one line of eye black, and eye black is the drippiest part of a lacrosse player’s uniform.” 

When McGuire found out his players were on the All-Conference team he obviously was proud but realized that more of his players can make the team if they just wore better eye black. McGuire is now swapping out a film session and replacing it with eye black tutorials about learning intricate and drippy designs from MC’s finest lacrosse makeup artists. This new style and “drip” will hopefully advance all their players next year to the conference finals.

Exciting prospects for both teams are on the horizon, and MC is seeking two more state championships.