International Rugby News
The USA Rugby South U19s once again won the Rugby Americas North championship, beating hosts Jamaica 18-15 in the final.
The South, which represents the USA in this tournament every year, opened up pool play with a 19-0 shutout of Cayman and a 17-5 win over Trinidad & Tobago.
Coming off Yesterday's 32-31 loss to Uruguay, the USA U20s have some work to do as they look ahead to pool games against Scotland and Zimbabwe.
The USA U18s pulled out a very tense win over the Netherlands Saturday in Amsterdam to win the Corendon Summer Tour.
In a game where the USA
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Uruguay's U20s held on to defeat the USA U20s 33-31 in Round 1 of the World Rugby U20 Trophy Saturday thanks to a powerful combination of scrum, maul, defense, and kicking.
It was overall an impressive showing by the USA but too many errors, notably penalties in their own half, led to their demise.
The USA U20 Men get ready to meet Uruguay Saturday in the World Rugby U20 Trophy.
This is their fourth meeting on the World Rugby U20 Championship stage but the first in a pool match since 2011. USA have won the last two encounters but both matches were close, winning by a point and two points respectively.