Tuesday, January 17, 2017

USA Hawks (development) team has mixed reviews in South America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Sudamérica_Rugby_Sevens



The USA Hawks sent their development team to the 2 South American tournaments. Fiji and Argentina also sent their development teams. Those 2 nations dominated this tournament. No other team could beat them. The USA development team got abused by them.

To keep things in perspective the USA Senior Sevens team is much more competitive and can beat Argentina, and challenges Fiji.

Chile and Uruguay senior Sevens teams placed 3rd and 4th and have now qualified for the Hong Kong Sevens. They will play against Jamaica and 8 other teams to total 12 teams. The winner of the World Series Qualifiers.

This was nice to send the development team to get in competitive games against other nations. The USA Hawks did well, remember these are young kids and they are playing away from home.

I do not know if this was Canada's development team. i am going to assume that it was. The USA and Canada ties in points after the 2 tournaments.


Next big tournament is the American Rugby Championship. 

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