GRR: 7s
The USA men’s 7s program sent a team to Mar Del Plata in Argentina to compete in the American Sevens, and the Falcons placed 4th, losing to Chile 17-7 in the bronze medal match.
Argentina defeated South Africa in the final.
When Mike Friday made Madison Hughes the captain of the USA 7s team last year, there were, naturally, some concerns.
Hughes was young - still in college - was relatively new to the program, and, you figured, still had a lot to learn. Yet he has blossomed.
You always have to watch those 50-50 passes; as the saying goes, half the time they don’t work out.
Except when they do work out, we get all excited any everything.
World Rugby expanded the 2015-2016 HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series to five tournaments once more, assing a fifth and final stop at Clermont-Ferrand in France on May 28-29.
The late-May stop will be the final test for each nation’s qualifying women’s sevens team before they head to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
The USA finished up the Cape Town 7s losing 29-19 to Fiji in the Plate Final.
It was an up-and-down Day Two for the Eagles, who finished the weekend 3-3, 6th in the tournament, and tied with Argentina for 3rd in the World Series standings after two tournaments.