Conor Kearns has announced the team to face Mystic River on Sunday afternoon in the Men’s Blues first match of their US tour, which include five Blues in the starting XV in addition to ‘himself’ on the bench. Having arrived in Boston on Friday night, the tour party enjoyed a day of training at the excellent Harvard University facilities on Saturday, plus a dinner with the Harvard rugby team in the evening. KO is at 1pm (EST) at Pine Banks Park.
1 Lewis Anderson * (Trinity) 2 John Aaron Henry (Somerville) 3 Kieran Ball * (Trinity) 4 Charlie Pozniak (St Benet’s Hall) 5 Hugo McPherson (Lady Margaret Hall) 6 Rob Menzies-Wilson (Magdalen) 7 Will Thornton * (Lady Margaret Hall) Captain 8 Ollie Adams (Lady Margaret Hall) 9 Tom Kershaw * (Worcester) 10 Tom Dyer (St Edmund Hall) 11 Robbie Fraser (Corpus Christi) 12 Rob Quinlan (Jesus) 13 Alex Hogg * (Keble) 14 Dan Barley (St Edmund Hall) 15 Thom Foster (Keble)
Replacements:
16 Noah Miller (St Peter’s) 17 Ben Parker (Brasenose) 18 Michael Gorry (Jesus) 19 George Warr (New) 20 Sam Miller (St Edmund Hall) 21 Sam Edgerley (St Catherine’s) 22 Conor Kearns * (Jesus) 23 Dan Moor # (Christ Church) 24 Seb Haddock (St Edmund Hall)
*Denotes Blue, # denotes International