GRR: 7s
The American Rugby Pro Training Center is hosting an elite-level 7s tournament for women and girls teams June 26-27.
The Falcon 7s is designed for top-level teams to get strong competition, and will concentrate on only women and girls.
The National 7s Youth Championships is filling up nicely but there remains a little space for some girls teams.
The tournament will be held June 12-13 in Cleveland, Ohio on the fields at St. Ignatius HS.
"We got a massive response," said Tournament Director Pat Rahill.
Many eyes at the Tropical 7s were on the Panther Rugby Academy.
Given that the Panther program entered 16 teams in the tournament was reason enough, but there was also the fact that the PRA has earned the USA Rugby designation of National Development Academy. With that kind of stamp of approval, they beter perform well.
Alaska's young rugby players traveled 4,500 miles last week to get a game of rugby in, and they did pretty well in three brackets of the Tropical 7s in Orlando, Fla.
The girls struggled a bit more than the boys. They logged wins over Fallbrook and Rogue Ridge, but lost four in pool play and lost the 9th/10th playoff to Riverdale 22-5.
The Charlotte Tigress had only the one hiccup in a run that saw them win the Girls U18 bracket at the Tropical 7s.
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