GRR: 7s
The Liberty Patriots won the Washington State Games Boys U17 rugby 7s gold after running the table in the final tournament of the four-tournament summer series.
Liberty played a very smooth style of 7s, unleashing a team-wide level of skill that saw them outstrip a very strong Prairie team.
Budd Bay out of Olympia, Wash. defeated Seattle 24-12 in the last game of the Rugby Washington Summer Sevens Series to win the state Boys HS 7s championship and a gold medal in the Washington State Games.
A strong college presence will help Old Blue try to climb the club 7s championship mountain next week, with recent collegians Michael Al-Jiboori (Oklahoma), Dylan Carrion (Arkansas State), Harry Higgins (Arkansas State), Gavan D'Amore Morrison (AIC), Marcus Henderson (Stanford), Michael St. Claire (Stony Brook), and Bobby McMahon (Columbia) on the club's squad for the big tournament.
In the first game of the Minnesota Youth Rugby Boys HS 7s season, Minnetonka edged Hopkins 31-28.
Atlantis US Sevens Rugby™ in cooperation with Surfside Sevens, held an open high school camp attended by more than 80 participants, both boys and girls, in Stone Harbor on the New Jersey shore July 17.