Pushed by Berks, Doylestown Caps Off Perfect 7s Fall

11.13.2026HS Boys

Doylestown celebrates a clean 21-0 run.

Author: GRR Staff

Doylestown Rugby Academy High School boys capped their undefeated Fall 7s season
with a Rugby Pennsylvania championship on Sunday.

Doylestown beat Berks 31-17 in the final, working through Delaware County, Elizabethtown, and St. Joe’s Prep in pool play with two shutouts.

They then defeated La Salle College HS to make the final.

Both Doylestown and Berks had potential speed bumps. For Berks it was tense all the way through. They had struggled with Downingtown before and lost their opening pool match to that same opponent.

That set up a scenario in which Berks had to get by a very tough Montgomery County, which they did by shutout. La Salle, meanwhile, had started strong and everyone came into the final round of games with questions to answer. La Salle was 2-0 and just needed to beat Berks to win the pool. Downingtown needed to beat MontCo and would want Berks to salter to make the semis.

But Downingtown and Montco tied, ensuring that the door was open for Berks. In the final pool match, La Salle ran out to a 10-0 lead into halftime. But Berks did well to refocus and top playmaker Kaiden Boyer raced in to score a try that he converted. Moments later Bryan Henry scored and Boyer converted. Berks closed it out with a goalline stand to win 14-10.

That left both La Salle and Berks at 2-1, but Berks won the head-to-head tiebreaker.

In the semis, Doylestown and La Salle played tough defense and were deadlocked 0-0 at halftime.

Doylestown put things together a bit more in the second half with sophomore scrumhalf Griffin Glock scoring three tries for a 17-0 victory.

Doylestown was able to shut out the very powerful LaSalle side in both matches they played this season.

the only team to score against Doylestown so far had been Elizabethtown, and they faced Berks in the other semis.

This was another tense encounter and the teams were tied 14-14 at halftime.

Boyer, who had scored a try and converted it along with Grant Croce's try, scored again early in the second half. Nathan Bourassa also scored before Boyers scored his third to make it 33-14. Late in the game E-town scored twice, but they had far too much of a mountain to climb.

He , E-Town was 14-14 and HT

Boyer T C ... Grant Croce T Boyer C

3 tries in a row 33-14 ... Boyer TC Bouressa Boyer T C

E-Town ... scored twice late ... 33-26 but not enough ...

In the final, Berks scored early but center Bennett Glock and flyhalf Jackson Reilly answered for Doylestown, with Reilly converting one for a 12-7 scoreline. That lead held until halftime.

In the second half wing Jack Sugalski and and prop Chris Imperato scored to take a 24-12 lead. Berks for a red card after that for backchat, and then as a Doylestown player raced down the sideline Boyer stormed in to make what would have been a spectacular try-saving tackle. But as the tackle was made the Doylestown runner got the offload away to Glock, whose try sealed it 31-12. Berks would score one more, but Doylestown won 31-17.

For Berks, Boyer was outstanding, scoring 54 points over the weekend's action, while Henry, who at 6-4, 280 doesn't look like a full-game 7s player, put in a massive 14 minutes, playing defense and being active throughout the game.

Doylestown prop Jake Freestone was hugely influential on defense with several big tackles, including running down a Berks ballcarrier just short of the tryline in the second half, and forcing a turnover.

Doylestown’s starting seven was the same the entire season, which had to help them in their unity of play—props Chris Imperato and Jake Freestone, hooker Brady Flynn, scrumhalf Griffin Glock, flyhalf and captain Jackson Reilly, center Bennett Glock, and wing Jack Sugalski. AJ Kelhart, Seamus Haney, Jacob Cooperberg, and Reed Charlesworth provided much needed depth.

Led by some excellent team defense—not just tackling but communication, positioning, and creating turnovers—Doylestown finished 21-0 on the season with 12 shutouts and a total combined scoreline of 680-86.

—Thank you Betsy Tomlinson