Two North Raleigh Youth Rugby RedHawks teams took home Carolina Cup championships on Saturday.
The RedHawks' U12 Tackle and U12 Touch teams, part of the North Carolina Youth Rugby Union, won their divisions during the rugby 7's tournament hosted by the Raleigh Rugby Football Club at the Raleigh Rugby Football Complex on Poole Road.
Young rugby enthusiasts in the Under-10 through Under-14 age groups will hit the pitch for a tournament this weekend in the Triangle.
The Raleigh Rattlesnakes, part of the Raleigh Rugby Football Club and the N.C. Youth Rugby Union, will host the Carolina Cup on Saturday at the Raleigh Rugby Complex at 7414 Poole Road, about four miles east of the beltline.
A women's rugby team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and two men's teams from the Raleigh Rugby Football Club bowed out of their respective national tournaments over the weekend.
A women's rugby team from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and two men's teams from the Raleigh Rugby Football Club bowed out of their national tournaments over the weekend.
The Raleigh Vipers, the Raleigh Rugby Football Club’s Division 1 men’s team, is trying to raise $3,000 to help with travel and lodging expenses when the team competes in the Division I playoffs in Boston, starting with an April 30 game against the Boston Irish Wolfhounds.
The Raleigh Venom women's rugby team will be heading for the national championships soon, and the team is making a final push to fund the trip.
The Venom, part of the Raleigh Rugby Football Club, will play again for the women's Division II championship in the Nov. 11-15 tournament in Mesa, Ariz.
To help the players offset the approximately $12,000 cost of the trip, an announcement from the RRFC Board of Directors said, donations can be made via PayPal on the club's website.
The action will be fast and beginner-friendly at the Raleigh Rugby Complex on Saturday as the Raleigh Rugby Football Club hosts its annual Charity Sevens tournament.
"Sevens" competition is a smaller, quicker version of the sport, club spokesman Brent Vaughn said. Instead of the usual 15 players per side, each team sends seven to the field, or pitch, and instead of the usual 40-minute halves, teams play seven-minute halves. The result is a family-friendly format that is ideal for introducing spectators to the game.
"Spectators can expect a very fast-paced, full-contact sport that they will be able to enjoy with people around the facility who are familiar with the sport and will be happy to explain," Vaughn said.
The Raleigh Venom
made a leap from fourth to first on Sunday and won the USA Rugby
Division II women's rugby club national championship in Houston,
defeating the Pittsburgh Angels 12-0.
The Venom squeaked into the national semifinals as the No. 4 seed with their play on Saturday.
In Sunday morning's semifinal, the Venom started slowly but surged to
defeat the Providence Rugby Football Club 31-5 and win a place in the
title game, Venom representative Erik Krupa said.
The Raleigh Venom women's rugby team on Saturday advanced to today's
Women's Division II National Championship semifinals in Houston. (Details are below.)
The fourth overall seed after losing the pool championship 17-15 to the
Pittsburgh Angels, the Venom was scheduled to play Providence in the
semifinals this morning.
A victory would put the Venom in this afternoon's championship match.
The Raleigh Venom women’s rugby team defeated Brandywine (Md.) 22-12
on Saturday and the Maryland Stingers 18-0 on Sunday in Baltimore to
win the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union playoff championship.
Raleigh earned a place in the Nov. 7-8 Division II national tournament in Houston.
On
Saturday, you can see the Venom in action when the team hosts N.C.
State at noon at the Raleigh Rugby Football Club, 7417 Poole Road,
about four miles east of the Beltline. The Raleigh Vipers men’s team
will host the Washington Furies at 2 p.m., and a B-side men’s game will
follow at 3:30.
