Burnaby Lake Rugby Club front row forwards Scott Mackay and Micha Govorchin both scored tries for the B.C. Bears in a 30-21 loss to the Prairie Wolf Pack in an opening Canadian Rugby Championship match last Saturday at the University of British Columbia.
Mackay gave the B.C. team, including BLRC back row forwards Scott Plummer and Admir Cejvanovic and winger Joe Dolesau, a 7-3 lead following a successful conversion by teammate Connor Braid of James Bay. Govorchin's tally in the 32nd minute helped the Bears take a second short-lived lead following Braid's second two-point convert.
Minutes later, the Wolf Pack scored a second try to take a 20-14 lead at the interval.
B.C. got a late try in the 80th minute from Meraloma forward Callum Morrison to reduce the deficit to single digits.
Burnaby Lake's Anthony Luca and Andrew Lackner were named reserves for the Bears.
"We were our own worst enemies," said B.C. head coach Jim Dixon in a B.C. Rugby Union press release. "We made too many errors and (the Wolf Pac) capitalized on them."
