The French U17 team have defeated the USA High School All American U17s 65-6 at the Field of Honor at the Centre National de Rugby in Marcoussis, France Tuesday.
With less than 48 hours to prepare the HSAA team had a lot of prep work to fit in in not much time, and battled through the first, and probably toughest, game of their European tour.
France got three tries from wing Theo Pires and two from scrumhalf Adrien Vinge. USA flyhalf Anton Grigoriou kicked two penalties in the second half for the tourists' only scores.
France U17 Lineup (15-1) : Barada – Marty, Delbouis, Seguret, Pires – (o) Mioche, (m) Coville – Vigne, Berruyer, Woki – Gaget, Tesseidre – Colombe, Peyresbolanques, Boniface
Remplaçants : Baubigny, Kolingar, Brennan, Chauvac, Azagoh, Heguy, Jozroland, Hardy, Ntamack, Dit Robiglia
HSAA u17s Lineup
15. Patrick Madden (SD Young Aztecs)
14. Ryan James (Aztec Warriors)
13. Tomasi Tonga (Herriman)
12. MIkaele Kruse (Bullard)
11. Sim Mander (St. Paul’s)
10. Anton Grigoriou (Back Bay)
9. Ruben De Haas (Little Rock)
8. Jutus Tavai (Mira Costa)
7. Ian Crilly (Fallbrook)
6. Jack White (Penn)
5. Leki Fotu (Herriman)
4. Liam Jimmons (Back Bay)
3. Owen Duvall (Coastal Dragons)
2. Keanu Andrade (Danville)
1. David Ainuu (Prairie)
Reserves : Maxwell Nail (Fort Hunt), Sean Dowling (Fort Hunt), Nathan Watts 9Richardson), Dillon Shotwell (Kingswood), Sosefo Mailangi-Ray (Back Bay, Beau Falco (SCV Tigers), Soh Nakayama (Greenwich), Marcos Young (Key Biscayne), Will Vakalahi (Penn), Evan Holm (Edina), Ian Abbott (Herriman), Quinn Perry (Santa Monica)
