Canada will be on the road for this year’s Pacific Four Series with stops in USA, Australia and NZ. The top 3 teams from the series will compete in WXV1 along with the top 3 teams from the Six Nations.
Thanks to Peter Muirhead who put together these league tables for the weekend ending Jan 28th.
The Vancouver Highlanders have announced Melani Nanai as their 9th signing.
The Canadian women lost to Great Britain 7-0 in the quarter-final but defeated Fiji 26-5 in the 7th/8th place game. That result puts Canada at 6th place overall in the standings with USA and Ireland jumping ahead of them.
The second half of the season recommenced this weekend with the exception of men’s Premier, that will restart next weekend. UBC lost a close game to CWU, 20-13, the game can be viewed here. Also in exhibition play the UVic Jutes defeated the Doug Tate Selects, 27-0, and that match can be viewed here.
The Vancouver Highlanders have announced Conor O’Flaherty as their 8th signing.
The Canadian highlight in Round 9 of the England Women’s Premiership was Claire Gallagher’s try in her starting debut for Leicester Tigers. Claire usually plays #10 for Canada but was slotted in at #12 for Leicester. She came into the Leicester side last weekend and had a spot in the reserves. Her try was voted the league Try of the Week. This is the first win for the Leicester side in nine matches.
The UVic Vikes fell to Central Washington University 27-22 despite leading 22-17 at the half. UVic had plenty of possession inside the red zone in the second half but couldn’t convert that into points.
The Vancouver Highlanders have announced Tom Davidson as their 7th signing. Tom was a standout junior player, selected to the U19 national all star team in 2016. In 2017 Tom was a member of the Canada U20 team that defeated USA in a two game series in Edmonton and went on to represent North America at the JWRT. He went on to play for the Pacific Pride in 2019, 2021 and captained the side for part of the season in 2022. In 2023 he joined the Castaway Wanderers in the BC Premier.
UVic won the opening tournament of the 2024 CanWest 7s Series in Edmonton. UBC came second. There will be two more tournaments in the series, the next tournament is at UBC, Feb 10-11.