By ROBERT BURGIN RUGBY league returns to Colombia for the first time in two years, as the town of Funza hosts a Nines tournament this weekend. Five male and two female teams will contest the two-day event, 22km west of the national capital Bogota. While some sporadic training has taken place during the COVID-19 pandemic, no official games have been…
ON the same day Catalans secured Super League’s minor premiership, Tokyo French Crusaders were crowned the first champions of a new Japanese Nines tournament. The Riverside Nines comprised five rugby union clubs as well as hosts Abiko Ducks and was the result of years of hard work by New Zealander David Canham. And a few hours before James Maloney’s extra-time…
COLOMBIA will host the country’s first national Nines championship in November. The announcement comes as Sili Eels celebrate taking out the Palauli/Satupaitea Regional Nines in Samoa and Nane Brothers settle into their title as 2021 Port Moresby Suburban Nines champs. The Colombian Nines will run on November 13 and 14 and feature teams from around Bogota as well as the…
NINES action is reaching its crescendo in the Netherlands and Port Moresby while Papua New Guinea’s Central Province is bracing itself for a landmark series. The Hiritano Super Nines kicks off this Friday at Bereina Station with 32 teams taking part, the tournament moving on five subsequent weekends to neighbouring towns. Meanwhile in the Netherlands, the Nines have been played…
NO team survived the first day of the Netherlands Nines Series without a defeat as the sport got back underway in the European nation at the weekend. Harderwijk Dolphins and Den Haag Knights finished Saturday with four-from-five records during the Dordrect tour stop; host side the Griffins were the only team of six not to register a victory. The Knights’…
THE men’s event may have been marred by controversy but a new women’s Nines mini-tour for the United States got off to a successful start last weekend. The Tampa Nines at Keystone Prep High in Odessa, Florida, was the first rugby league activity for the year in the US, which has been riven by a breakaway competition, the North American…
RUGBY league’s Nines circuit moves to Florida tomorrow as the women’s game steps into the spotlight at the Tampa’s Mayhem Nines. Roots Rugby, who took out the 2019 London Nines and also competed in the Carolina Nines, are one of four teams in the first officially-sanctioned USARL women’s competition of any type. The tournament also marks the start of the…
Mercenarios have lifted the NovoSports Trophy as Nicaragua’s first national Nines champions. A tense double-header at San Carlos Sports Grounds in Chinandega on Sunday concluded with the local team overcoming Monseraptors 18-6 in the final, after the Raptors’ 18-4 win over Diablos in the second semi-immediately beforehand. Mercenarios had claimed their final spot during a previous instalment of the Nines…
THE grand trophy for Nicaragua’s best men’s Nines team will be presented on May 9, it has been announced. Nine-a-side rugby league arrived in Central America on Sunday with the four-team league opening and local Chinandega side Mercenarios topping the table after going through the day’s play undefeated. It was originally intended that the best team at the end of…
IT’S sub-district of a region with just 1490 inhabitants but Tupapa entered three teams in the tournament that kicked off the year of Nines rugby league worldwide this weekend. And one of them, the Tupapa Panthers A team, took out the men’s trophy, with fleet-footed John Vano scoring three tries in an exciting 34-26 final win over the Avatui Eels….
