Los Cuervos Upset Old Christians in Uruguay Qualifying Tournament this past weekend. The 24-17 home win sees Los Cuevos rocked up into first position in the standings after two rounds. Also producing an upset was Trébol who overcame last year’s runners-up, Old Boys 29-28. Both Old Christians and Old Boys fielded their …
Read More »Up and Under
Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News which reviews the best and worst from games involving the Americas teams over the previous week. UP PRO Rugby The announcement of the player rosters for the inaugural PRO Rugby season was a tremendous success. The American rugby community is …
Read More »Top 10 Amateur ARC Prospects
One of the best features of the Americas Rugby Championship was the exposure of some of the top up and coming talents in the Americas. Every team featured uncapped players at some point, some more so than others, and in doing so we got a glimpse of some of the …
Read More »Americas Rankings – March 20 2016
With there having been no international competition in the Americas this weekend there are no changes to the Americas Rankings this week. As of March 20 2016 Rugby World Cup 2015 competitors Argentina, USA, Canada and Uruguay remain ranked one through four in that order. There have, nonetheless, been alterations to …
Read More »Barbados Awarded Hosts of International 7s Tourney
After two years of working on drawing the tournament to Barbados, the Barbados Rugby Football Union has been awarded the rights to host the Barbados International Rugby Sevens. The tournament, set to take place on December 10-11, 2016. The tournament has toggled back and forth between Trinidad and Tobago each …
Read More »Uruguay Qualifying Tournament – Week 2
The opening round of the Uruguayan qualifying tournament was played last weekend. A number of encouraging matches were played and the Week 1 results saw Los Cuervos and Montevideo Cricket Club (MVCC) out of the blocks with impressive wins.In the match of the round Old Boys defeated Pucuru Stade Gaulois …
Read More »2016 ARC Dream Team
We’ve debated and arm wrestled and thrown names in a hat, but finally decided on our top XV from the Americas Rugby Championship. Because of the nature of the inaugural tournament we had to lay down a couple stipulations – players had to have started a minimum of two matches to …
Read More »World Rugby u20 Trophy fixtures announced
World Rugby has announced the fixture list for the 2016 u20 Trophy competition, to take place in Harare, Zimbabwe, starting on April 19. Two sides from the Americas will be present, with Los Teritos representing Uruguay and the Junior All-Americans heading over from the USA after defeating Canada in Texas last …
Read More »Team of the Week
After the excitement of the Americas Rugby Championship this week’s selection seems downright boring. Los Jaguares were on a bye, as was the whole of the Guinness Pro 12, and most of the top Americas exports were either not playing well or not at all. In some cases we’ve simply …
Read More »Peru win u18 match in Arequipa
On Saturday March 12, Peru’s under 18 side began preparations for international competition in 2016 by winning a warm-up fixture in Arequipa. Los Tumis M18 played against the under 20 division side of the Club Leones Rugby Club Arequipa. With an excellent style of play which saw regular linebreaks and open play …
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