Update: First-Ever Rugby Playoff Game in IB Saturday

Updated 10:30 a.m., May 4: Imperial Beach Rugby Coach Ignacio Montero has told IB Patch that the Santa Monica Rugby Club forfeited the game and therefore no game will be held.

In the first playoff game in the team's three-year history, the Imperial Beach Rugby Club will face the Santa Monica Rugby Club at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mar Vista High School, according to the Southern California Rugby Football Union.

Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.

Both the Imperial Beach Stingrays and the Santa Monica Dolphins finished the 2013 season with a 5-3 record.

The Stingrays lost twice to the Dolphins this year by 7 points or less.

Winner will play in the Division IV championship May 11 against the winner of the Apple Valley Dead Rabbits-LA Rebellion game.

"We've been actually destroying teams pretty well. We tightened stuff up in our game and it really shows in the scores we've come up with," said coach Ignacio "Nacho" Montero. "It's all coming together at the right time at the end of the season when you want to hit that stride."

An active offense led the Stingrays to outscore the Dead Rabbits and Rebellion 130-20 in the final two games of the season.

Montero has played on rugby teams for more than two decades. He was approached by former Mar Vista High School football players at IB Fitness and asked to coach and build the new team.

"The South Bay in general needed a rugby team," he said, adding that the team has players from IB but also La Mesa, Spring Valley and Chula Vista.