World Rugby 7s Series – 2023-24

World Rugby Announces 2023-24 7s Series Tournaments: Vancouver Feb 23-25 2024

World Rugby finally released its new format for the 2023-24 7s Series with 8 tournaments world wide with 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams competing at each tournament… and, yes, Vancouver made the list. Who didn’t make the list, England, France, NZ.

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Canada U18 Men – 2023

Canada Defeat Belgium 22-17 to Finish 3rd at Corendon U18 Tournament

Canada defeated Belgium 22-17 but they didn’t make it easy on themselves. Canada gave up three first half tries on the outside plus earned themselves a yellow card for some chippy play off the ball, they were down 17-0 with 10 minutes left in the first half. They were almost down four tries as Belgium ran another one in on the outside but it was called back and a red card given the Belgian player, that was the turning point in the match.

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Canada U20 Women

Canada U20 Women Fall to Wales 39-12 – USA Finish 2-0, Wales 1-1, Canada 0-2

The Canadian U20 women fell to Wales 39-12 to finish the tournament 0-2. The USA win the tournament with a 2-0 record as Wales lost 28-27 to USA Women’s U20s in Ottawa last week. Wales finish at 1-1.

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Provincial Regional Championships 2023

Vancouver Island Tide Sweep U16 and U18 Brackets at Regional Championships – Fraser Valley East Win U14

from BCRU

Vancouver, BC: BC Rugby’s 2023 Provincial Regional Championships (PRCs) concluded on Sunday following three days of action-packed youth Rugby at UBC’s Gerald McGavin Centre, with the Vancouver Island Junior Tide taking four gold medals back to the Island.

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MLR 2023

New England Free Jacks Win 2023 MLR Title – Follow the Manawatu Connection as NPC Season Approaches

New England Free Jacks won the 2023 MLR title defeating San Diego Legion 25-24. There were 6 Canadians in the match, Andrew Quattrin, Conor Keys and Ben Lesage starting for New England, with Cole Keith and Spencer Jones on the bench. Michael Smith was on the bench for San Diego. New England had the largest number of Canadians on a USA based team roster, with 11 players used during the season.

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Pacific Four Series 2023 – Canada v NZ

Canada Fall to NZ 52-21 in Pacific Four Action

Canada go 1-1 in the Pacific Four series and with one round left are in a good position to finish top 3 and advance to the Tier One WXV. The USA look destined to be relegated to Tier 2 as they were pummelled by Australia today, 58-17, they’ll have to defeat the Black Ferns to have any chance of remaining in Tier 1. Canada fill face Australia in the final round of the series on Friday.

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BCRN Updates – July 2023

Change to Home Page – Twitter Feed Replaced by Facebook Feed – BCRN Facebook Page Relaunched

We had been using a Twitter feed for clubs on our home page, if your club was on our BCRN club list then you could tweet something out and it would show up on the BCRN home page. Well that, like many things on Twitter lately, stopped working this week.

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Bayside Sharks – July 2023

Annual Bayside Sharks Summer 7s for August 12

from Bayside Rugby

Can you please post our upcoming Annual Bayside Sharks Summer 7s for August 12, 2023. Registration is now open and payment can be sent to treasurer@baysiderfc.com and any enquiries to myself, mattfalkner3@gmail.com

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Pacific Four Series 2023

Coach Rouet Drops 10 From Pre-Tournament Camp – 30 Players Chosen for Ottawa Series

Coach Kevin Rouet named his 30 players for the upcoming matches against NZ and Australia. He had to drop 10 players from his long list. He dropped 7 forwards and 3 backs, the total now stands at 17 forwards and 13 backs.

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