Canada Women Finish Amsterdam 7s in 2nd Place Defeating USA and England: Team Included Heather Moyse, Mandy Marchak, Kayla Moleschi, Brittany Waters, Karen Paquin, Bianca Farella, Jen Kish, Magali Harvey…
With not much rugby news to write about this Sunday on Victoria Day Weekend, I decided to go back in the time machine in our database and found this gem from May 18th 2013. The women’s 7s team competing at the Amsterdam 7s. Amazingly the video highlights are still up on YouTube so you can watch the Day 1 and 2 highlights in the write-ups for 2013 below. Have a great Victoria Day Weekend in 2025!
Women Finish 2nd in Amsterdam: Defeat USA and England; Lose to NZ in Final: VIDEO ADDED
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posted May 18 2013
A good day at the office for the Canadian women as they defeated two high ranked opponents, USA and England before falling to Cup winners New Zealand. It was particularly pleasing to defeat England, a team Canada has had problems with in earlier tournaments. In the NZ game, Canada came out strong scoring two early tries but NZ finished strong scoring the last 3 tries and winning by a 5 try to 4 margin. Still an excellent result and Canada jumped over the USA and Australia in the series standings to take 3rd place overall, a fitting end to their iRB 7s season. Now Canada prepares for the World Cup in Moscow in late June.
CANADA 19 – USA 5
1st half
1:41 Kayla Moleschi CAN Try
2:19 Mandy Marchak CAN ConMiss
6:02 Mandy Marchak CAN Try
6:40 Mandy Marchak CAN Conversion
7:09 Arielle Dubissette-Borrice CAN Substitution
2nd half
2:56 Victoria Folayan USA Try
3:41 Kimber Rosier USA ConMiss
3:48 Brittany Waters CAN Substitution
4:57 Nathalie Marchino USA Substitution
5:00 Julia Greenshields CAN Substitution
5:54 Sadie Anderson USA Substitution
5:57 Cheryl Phillips CAN Substitution
7:13 Brittany Waters CAN Try
7:44 Mandy Marchak CAN Conversion
CANADA 12 – ENGLAND 5
1st half
8:14 Katy McLean ENG Try
8:44 Katy McLean ENG Conversion
2nd half
0:03 Sonia Green ENG Substitution
0:06 Ruth Laybourn ENG Substitution
0:08 Fran Matthews ENG Substitution
0:11 Arielle Dubissette-Borrice CAN Substitution
1:16 Karen Paquin CAN Substitution
2:24 Bianca Farella CAN Try
2:57 Magali Harvey CAN ConMiss
3:21 Brittany Waters CAN Substitution
4:35 Kelly Russell CAN Try
5:06 Magali Harvey CAN Conversion
5:50 Emily Scott ENG Substitution
NEW ZEALAND 33 – CANADA 24
1st half
0:43 Bianca Farella CAN Try
1:16 Mandy Marchak CAN Conversion
10:29 Jennifer Kish CAN Try
10:54 Mandy Marchak CAN Conversion
11:47 Kayla McAlister NZL Try
12:21 Kelly Brazier NZL Conversion
2:51 Kayla McAlister NZL Try
3:23 Kelly Brazier NZL Conversion
6:01 Bianca Farella CAN Try
6:34 Mandy Marchak CAN ConMiss
9:34 Honey Hireme NZL Sin Bin
2nd half
0:24 Jennifer Kish CAN Try
1:07 Magali Harvey CAN ConMiss
1:25 Julia Greenshields CAN Substitution
10:15 Tyla Nathan-Wong NZL ConMiss
10:25 Renee Wickliffe NZL Substitution
2:02 Kelly Brazier NZL Try
2:31 Kelly Brazier NZL Conversion
2:38 Karen Paquin CAN Substitution
6:23 Vaine Greig NZL Substitution
6:26 Tyla Nathan-Wong NZL Substitution
7:09 Portia Woodman NZL Try
7:42 Tyla Nathan-Wong NZL Conversion
7:50 Heather Moyse CAN Substitution
7:52 Cheryl Phillips CAN Substitution
7:54 Brittany Waters CAN Substitution
9:37 Vaine Greig NZL Try
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
Canada 1-2 in Pool Round: Meet USA in Cup QF: VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS ADDED
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posted May 17 2013
Not a spectacular day for Canada in the last tournament of the women’s iRB series. Canada currently sits in 5th place and will have to up their game tomorrow to improve that ranking.
Canada started off losing to a team that is ranked significantly lower. 14th ranked France kicked a penalty at the whistle to defeat Canada 8-7, that would put Canada under pressure from the beginning. They bounced back to find their scoring touch against South Africa, winning 36-7 but then failed to score against England, losing 14-0. Those results put Canada 3rd in their pool but due to the tournament structure they narrowly slid into the Cup round as the top 3rd place finisher.
Tomorrow Canada face an undefeated USA side that finished on top of pool C. Canada has defeated USA several times recently so it’s not a bad draw, probably better than facing some of the other on-form teams such as New Zealand, England or Australia. The other quarter-finals see New Zealand face Spain, Australia against a surprisingly strong Russia side and England face France. Hosts Netherlands didn’t make the Cup round being dispatched 22-0 by Russia in the pool round.
Canada Face France, South Africa, England on Day 1: Heather Moyse Back in Action
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posted May 16 2013
The Amsterdam 7s starts tomorrow (Friday) with Canada’s first match at 11:06am (local time) against France. They then face South Africa at 13:50 and England at 16:12. There are 3 pools of 4 teams so almost all teams go through to the Cup quarter-finals on Day 2 (except bottom 4). Day 2 is when the real action starts with Day 1 jostling for the best match up in the Cup round.
Heather Moyse is making her first appearance for the national women’s side this season. The 34 year old Moyse is possibly aiming for her third World Cup appearance as she was a member of the 2006 and 2010 World Cup teams (XVs). Moyse is probably best known for her gold medal performance in the 2 women bobsleigh at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
Changes from London include Heather Moyse, Arielle Dubissette-Borrice, Julia Greenshields, Cheryl Phillips in; Jessica Dovanne, Ghislaine Landry, Ashley Steacy, Julianne Zussman out.
CANADA
Heather Moyse 1
Kayla Moleschi 2
Karen Paquin 3
Kelly Russell 4
Arielle Dubissette-Borrice 5
Mandy Marchak 6
Jennifer Kish 7
Julia Greenshields 8
Bianca Farella 9
Cheryl Phillips 10
Magali Harvey 11
Brittany Waters 12
Team photo after London 7s tournament