International Rugby News
In a game that perhaps ended predictably but was a shocking turnabout for about 60 minutes, the USA Women's 15s team lost 39-17 to the New Zealand Black Ferns.
The USA U18s will be looking to pick themselves up after a tie they feel they should have won.
The World Rugby U20 Trophy kicks off Saturday with four games on the slate.
The USA, after beating Canada in convincing fashion, is back in this competition and will take on a very tough Uruguay side in the first game of Pool Play.
Alex Goff sat down with Ray Lehner, who was recently inducted in Cal's Athletic Hall of Fame.
An All American at Cal as a prop, and later an Oxford Blue, Lehner played 37 times for the USA over six years.
A smart, articulate man, Lehner teaches at Bishop O'Dowd in Northern California and also coaches rugby and football.
The USA women's 15s team caps off their Pacific Four run Friday at 4PM against New Zealand and they know it's going to be a tough ask.