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….
