GUYANA’s top ‘ruggers’ will be pitted against each other today when the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) hold its final trial game for the National Men’s Sevens Team at the National Park Rugby Ground starting at 15:00hrs.

Today’s event is to help the Union and the Caribbean’s top playing nation, to select the best team to represent Guyana at the World Rugby Sevens World Series in Hong Kong from March 27 – 29.

Sixteen players were shortlisted from the 20 man National Sevens Squad to participate in the Trials which features three games to be contested between two select teams supervised by Technical Director, Angus Thomson, and Head Coach, Theodore Henry.

According to the GRFU, six players, drawn from Australia, Trinidad & Tobago, New York and Texas arrived in Guyana recently and will be part of today’s activity.

Guyana’s National Men’s Rugby Sevens Team for winning the NACRA Sevens championships in Mexico in December last year, along with the team they defeated in the final (Mexico) of the NACRA Championship, qualified to represent NACRA at the Hong Kong Sevens.

Guyana is pooled in the first round of the tournament to play Zimbabwe, Spain and Tonga. Twelve teams will be contesting the second division of the Hong Kong Sevens; the winner will qualify for the first division of the Sevens World Series.

Also in the second division are Russia, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, Tunisia, Hong Kong, Uruguay, Brazil and Mexico.