‘Green Machine’ undefeated on Day One at RAN 7s
Avery Corbin (first left) was Guyana’s top try scorer on day one of the Rugby Americas North (RAN) 7s Championship in Barbados.
Avery Corbin (first left) was Guyana’s top try scorer on day one of the Rugby Americas North (RAN) 7s Championship in Barbados.

… Female ‘ruggers’ impressive in mixed results

GUYANA had an outstanding first-day showing at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens in Barbados, with the men’s team playing undefeated and the women’s unit turning out some impressive rugby, despite losing their opening game against St Lucia.

The Green Machine, the men’s side, are seven-time winners of the tournament, last claiming the title in 2016, but one year later surrendered the trophy to Jamaica after a nail-biting final in Mexico.

This time around, the Guyanese men sent a strong signal to the rest of the tournament when they steamrolled Curacao 59-0 in their first of two games on the day.

In the lopsided win, Avery Corbin and Peabo Hamilton had two tries each, while Vallon Adams, Rickford Cummings, Ronald Mayers, Osie McKenzie and Lancelot Adonis all had a single try. Adonis made good of five conversions and Cummings scored the other two.

Up next against the Green Machine was a stubborn Barbados side, but with quality players and experience on their side, Guyana survived a good effort from the home team to prevail 19-10.

Against Barbados, Corbin got things going with a try and Mayers converted to take the score 7-0. However, Barbados scored a try of their own but their conversion attempt was unsuccessful.

With the scores reading 7-5 at the start of the second half, Jamal Angus scored a try and Adonis converted. Barbados eventually answered, but the conversion was once again wide and the scoreboard read Guyana 14, Barbados 10.

Team captain Dwayne Schroder’s try helped to settle the nerves for the tournament favourites and Guyana closed out Barbados 19-10 after the conversion kick was missed.

Following their impressive first day performance, Guyana will face the Dominican Republic in today’s men’s quarter-finals. The game is scheduled for 10:28hrs.

Meanwhile, for the women, things got off to a rugged start against a young St Lucian side who used their speed to good advantage. Guyana went down 0-25, but bounced back to maul Barbados 42-0.

Against the Dominican Republic, it took Guyana a last-second try and conversion to end with a 7-7 draw to end the day and prepare to face Mexico in their final group stage game.

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