Greenwich High School won the Ariel Re Bermuda 7s boys HS bracket this weekend, defeating West Chester in overtime in the final.

Greenwich battled out a tough first game against West Chester Wolf Pack, winning 15-14. That was a a good, challenging opener, and after that Greenwich started to click,beating the Bermuda All-Stars Red and Silver teams, and Stanstead College from Canada, to win the pool.

Greenwich brought with them Fairfield Prep player Connor Bercik, and he combined nicely with Soh Nakayama to set up HS All American Luke Bienstock and the always dangerous Bryce Stanback for tries. Walker Manning, Parker Kelly, and Kevin Kumar played strong defense during the tournament. 

On Day Two of the tournament, Greenwich faced Bermuda Red once again and won again to move on to the final against West Chester.

Ran Sando scored and Fermin Moraiz nailed the conversion from the touchline to open up a 7-0 lead in the championship game, but West Chester scored just before halftime to tie the game 7-7. That’s how the game ended, too, as neither was able to break through in the second half. 

So on to sudden death overtime, and in OT Greenwich junior Kevin Wright ran in from 20 meters out to clinch the game.

The victory capped off a good weekend for Greenwich where they also won the Four Leaf 15s tournament at Randall’s Island in New York. Greenwich sent an A and B team to compete against Berkshire United, Aspetuck, St. Francis Prep, Long Island Colts, Ridgefield High School. Greenwich As opened with Long Island and won 36-0, and also shut out Berkshire 45-0. In the championship game, Greenwich defeated Aspetuck 29-7. Despite being down a number of starters, Greenwich dominated on the day. Outside center Zhaire House, inside center Connor Weigold, and wings Elijah King and Kevin Iobbi led the scoring. At flyhalf, Eagle Impact Rugby Academy tourist Pat McTiernan controlled the attack and was aided by the strong running of forward Jake Herman, Ian Pearson, Brooks Lufkin, and Owen Tedford. McTiernan and Manuel Carballo did the kicking for goal, and did miss much.

The Greenwich B side finished the tournament in 3rd place and beat St. Francis, tied Berkshire, and lost to Aspetuck with a good showing from forwards CJ Coyle and DJ Brown, and backs Finbar Doyle and Andrew Maryanacho.

Greenwich Scores at Ariel Re Bermuda 7s Greenwich 15-14 West Chester Wolf pack Greenwich 29-7 Bermuda All Stars Silver Greenwich 48-0 Stanstead College Canada  Greenwich 31-0 Bermuda All Stars Red Greenwich 26-5 Bermuda All Stars Silver, Semifinal Greenwich 12-7 West Chester Wolf Pack, Final (OT)   Four Leaf 15s Tournament Greenwich 36-0 Long Island Colts Greenwich 45-0 Berkshire United Greenwich 29-7 Aspetuck, Final