USA Men 5-0 in Montevideo, Clinch Championship Series Berth

03.23.2026Eagles

David Still flies out of a Kenya tackle. Photo Enzo Santos World Rugby.

Author: Alex Goff

Paced by some hard work up front and a breakout tournament from Will Chevalier, the USA finished up the SVNS 2 tournament in Montevideo 5-0 and, in the process, have clinched a spot in the SVNS Championship Series slated for this spring.

The eight teams in SVNS 1 are already in to the Championship Series, which will be tournaments in Hong Kong (April 17-19), Valladolid, Spain (May 29-31), and Bordeaux, France (June 5-7). Along with those eight, the top four from SVNS 2 will compete, hoping to be able to stay in that top tier for 2026-27.

That’s the prize at the end of this. After this past weekend in Uruguay, the USA is tied with Germany in the standings, but has the edge in the tiebreaker and so sits in 1st. Germany is (of course) second with Kenya 3rd and Uruguay 4th.
Canada and Belgium can still claim a top four spot but will need to start winning games and will also need Uruguay to have a poor result this coming weekend in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Montevideo

USA 14 Kenya 10
Tries: Still, Bizer
Convs: Chevalier 2

This was a tight one as the USA fell behind early before they started to piece things together. Overall the USA ballhandling was good this tournament but they struggled to break open movements.

Still is their main weapon out wide and he is asked to do a lot and put in a lot of minutes. He did the job here, and he was backed up nicely by Bizer, who gets a lot of the unheralded work done and has a good engine. Chevalier, who it is good to see is back on this squad, made the conversions that proved the difference.

USA 29 Uruguay 14
Tries: Bizer, Chevalier, Still 2, Faison
Convs: Lacamp, Chevalier

Those three scorers in the first game were all on the scoresheet against the hosts as the USA raced out of the blocks. Uruguay is most successful when they make a game an arm wrestle. Instead the USA made it a track meet and were never seriously threatened.

USA 22 Canada 14
Tries: Wendling, Still, Broselle, Lacamp
Convs: Lacamp

Canada battled hard in this one and the USA ran into penalty trouble, finding themselves down 14-10 at halftime. However, they settled down a little bit, worked hard, and when Broselle scored on a long-range play, out of breath but still running, it was clear they had had to work for it.

Canada cannot seem to buy a win in this tournament, and that might partly be due to their depth. The Eagles could bring on Steven Tomasin with his immense experience, and it was he that got them out of field position trouble and on the front foot.

That was Day One.

In Day Two, the big question was whether the USA could close it out.

USA 17 Belgium 5
Tries: Chevalier 2, Tomasin
Convs: Chevalier

Belgium played hard and defended tenaciously. They were physical—almost every team decided they would hit the USA as hard as possible—and were also guilty of killing the ball, something they were penalized for, but not enough.

With slow ball and a frustrating defense facing them, the Eagles forced it a bit early and were, in fact, down 5-0 near the end of the first half. That’s when Chevalier used his sidestep to open up a gap and race through. The Neuqua HS, Eagle Impact, and Indiana University star has good breakaway speed, but it’s his playmaking and elusiveness that the USA have needed. Chevalier scored under the posts and converted for the 7-5 lead.

After that, Belgium was still kind of a negative team, but they couldn’t create the attack they needed. Chevalier once again sliced through and Tomasin finished it up.

With this win the Eagles clinched their place in the Championship Series.

USA 29 Germany 5
Tries: Chevalier 2, Broselle, Lacamp, Trickey
Convs: Lacamp, Chevalier

Now all that remained was to beat the one team they had lost two this season. The USA did that in a bit of a weird game. Most international 7s games go through periods of open play that are 30 to 45 seconds. This game had much longer periods, a credit to referee Morgan White and also to the continuity of both teams. The result was some very tired players. Broselle once again scored on a sequence that seemed to go on forever. That try put the USA ahead 10-0, and with just a few seconds remaining in the first half Lucas Lacamp zipped in to put the Americans in control.

This was a very good showing from the USA, although if you want to be pessimistic you’ll see they did have trouble turning some promising runs into tries. What they did do, overall, was avoid putting themselves under unneeded pressure, and they were good at pressuring their opponents.

The work rate and fitness was impressive, and maybe the X-factor will come.

Next up is Sao Paulo in Brazil and a chance to secure the top seed into the Championship Series.