Turks and Caicos Islands Play host to the Dominican Republic

Test match rugby resumes this coming Saturday in the Americas. The Turks and Caicos Islands play host to the neighboring Dominican Republic. The fixture is the opening round match of Rugby Americas North competition for 2017.

Rugby Americas North is divided into two zones – north and south. The two geographical zones are subsequently divided into the Cup and Championship divisions. This is the governing body’s means of having relative competitiveness.

This year’s North Zone Cup will involve the Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas and possibly Jamaica. The involvement of Jamaica is yet to be confirmed.

The North Zone Championship will see Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Mexico and USA South competing. It is to get underway on May 13 with Mexico traveling to face Bermuda.

The South is to also have Cup and Championship divisions. It is set to get underway on May 27. Participants are to include Barbados, Curaçao (to be confirmed), Guyana, Martinique (to be confirmed) and Trinidad & Tobago. The May 27 fixture is to be in Trinidad & Tobago.

NORTH CUP FIXTURES
May 06 Turks & Caicos Islands vs Dominican Republic
May 20 Bahamas vs Turks & Caicos Islands
June 03 Dominican Republic vs Bahamas

While this weekend’s fixture is to be the first test match of the year for the hosts it is the second for the visitors. The Dominican Republic defeated Curaçao last month to clinch the Copa de Rugby Dominico-Curazaleña.

Head Coach Colin Brown is taking with him the same roster which was used against Curaçao. It is as follows.

Position	Player	Club
Front-row	Raul Cifuentes Bonnet	Lions
Front-row	Brahian Gomez Arias	Pirañas del Caribe
Front-row	Kaonex Mancebo	Red Dragons
Front-row	Andrés Pepin	Pirañas del Caribe
Front-row	Christopher Soto Mateo	Vikingos
Front-row	David Viloria	Titanes
Second-row	Javier Báez	Titanes
Second-row	Victor Arturo Fernández	Titanes
Second-row	Angel García	Guayubin
Flanker	Fernando Jaquez	Lions
Flanker	Javier Rolfy	Titanes
Flanker	Pedro Jesus Lora	Titanes
Flanker	Victor Silverio	Red Dragons
Scrum half	Luis David Alvarez Nuñez	Vikingos
Scrum half	Arnold Figueroa	Titanes
Fly half	Michael Guerrero	Red Dragons
Center	Erick Arias	Red Dragons
Center	Rony Luciano	Pirãnas del Caribe
Center	Juan Diego Marte Perez	Vikingos
Back-three	Rafael Borges	Titanes
Back-three	Daniel Figueroa	Titanes
Back-three	Manuel Esteban Guerrero	Vikingos
Back-three	Pablo Portes	Titanes