The North American Lions completed a solid Day One at the Heidelberg 7s in Germany.

U19 Girls

The Lions girls split their two games, opening their account with a 29-5 win over Les Gazelles out of France. But a quick turnaround was tough as they lost 22-12 to losing their opening game to Pretentious Bastards out of Netherlands.

The Pretentious Bastards went on to beat Les Gazelles leaving their pool standings as follows:

Pool F
Pretentious Bastards 2-0
NA Lions 1-1
Les Gazelles 0-2

Canada's MacDowell Rugby lost both pool games, to RBW out of Germany and the Sweden Development team.

Pool D
RBW 2-0
Sweeden Dev 1-1
MacDowell 0-2

Pool E
Dutch Delight 2-0
Apollo Perelini 1-1
Wiscombe Warriors 0-2

That set up a set of new pools: G: Lions, Gazelles, Bastards; H-RBW, Winscome, Sweden; I-MacDowell, Dutch Delight, Apollo.

This is a smart way to format nine-team tournaments but the re-seeding actually just replicated Pool F.

MacDowell upset  Dutch Delight 19-10 and lost a close one to Apollo Perelini. The NA Lions repeated their performances with a win over Les Gazelles and then will play Pretentious Bastards Sunday morning.

Then we go to the final round.