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Rose and Boston College: A perfect match

NEWTON - Steve Rose sat in the student-athlete lounge at Boston College’s Conte Forum, and shrugged his shoulders. Fresh off another practice session, he wondered aloud how he arrived here, as the new quarterback in the midfield for the men’s soccer team.

Rose had been at the Heights years ago, as an All-State, All-New England high school recruit from Acton-Boxborough Regional, but the fit wasn’t right. Four years later, things had changed. He graduated from Seton Hall in New Jersey with a year of soccer-playing eligibility left, and he knew BC was the only place for him.

It fit his every criterion. He wanted to test himself in the NCAA’s premier soccer conference for one of its most promising teams. The Atlantic Coast Conference and top-25 ranked BC were perfect.

He wanted to work toward a master’s degree in business administration from one of the best programs in the country. BC’s Carroll Graduate School of Management had it.

He wanted to go home. He wanted to be closer to his friends, his family in Acton and the city he always considered his own. They were all just minutes down the road.

“With all those things coming together,’’ Rose said, “it was a no-brainer to want to come here.’’

The prospect of adding Rose, a superior playmaker who had been a three-year captain at Seton Hall, a Big East school, fell out of the blue and into the lap of BC coach Ed Kelly.

For Rose, there was no other choice. He missed most of his junior season with a broken sesamoid bone in his foot. He was granted a medical redshirt and eligibility to play a fifth season, and he wanted to do it at BC. He didn’t contact any coaches other than Kelly.

But did Kelly want him?

“I loved the kid,’’ said Kelly, and his squad happened to have a hole at midfield. “But I didn’t know he had another year, and I didn’t know he was interested in BC. We just got lucky. It was a match made in heaven.

England U18 squad announced for Australia A Schools match

England named their U18 team to play Australia A Schools Wednesday, August 24 at Oakhill College in their second three-game Down Under, kick off 6:15 UK time.

Head coach John Fletchers men beat Australia an invitation U19 team 19-8 in their first game and made 10 changes to the starting XV for the second game.

Oliver Rosillo, Zach Kibirige, Tom Stephenson, Will Robinson, Joe Buckle and Max Crumpton will all make their first starts for the age group side and 10 of the starters are either still at, or have recently graduated from, the RFU�s AASE programme.

Speaking ahead of the match, Fletcher said: �We�re really looking forward to this one, we�ve not had much time to train due to the quick turnaround in games, but we�ve had time to review the last match and identified our areas to work on.

We enjoyed a break at Bondi Beach yesterday, but were ready for this next challenge. Its exciting to see some of the younger guys in action, weve got some players do their part first, which is great and will be very useful.

England then play schools in Australia Ignatius College on Sunday in a game full trial, and Fletcher said that competition in camp is high.

He added: Players will compete for a starting place in the Test match on Sunday, so while we have a strong emphasis on performance, have also been looking to get the win.�

Keep up to date with all the latest from the U18�s tour on RFU.com, and through our Twitter account @Official_RFU.

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