De­spite their win­ning starts on the open­ing day of the Rug­by Amer­i­c­as North (RAN) Sev­ens Tour­na­ment be­ing host­ed by the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union, both T&T’s men’s and women’s teams gen­er­al­ly strug­gled on day two of the com­pe­ti­tion at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma Sat­urday.

The men’s best fin­ish yes­ter­day was a tame draw in Tier 1 with the Cay­man Is­lands 17-17, which fol­lowed a dis­as­trous loss to re­gion­al ri­val Ja­maica 17-5.

In the women’s equiv­a­lent, which saw two teams from the twin-is­land Re­pub­lic in ac­tion, the lone win against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 15-0 summed up the dif­fi­cul­ty on the pitch for the women in red, white and black, as the T&T ‘B’ went win­less.

Apart from that the coun­try’s ‘B’ team was ham­mered by Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 33-0; and lat­er was bat­tered by the hands of Ja­maica 35-0. How­ev­er, the first team lost to Ja­maica 12-10; to the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 15-0, and then lat­er to Bar­ba­dos and Mex­i­co 14-12 and 22-0, re­spec­tive­ly.

The teams have been jostling for places head­ing in­to the fi­nal day to­day, but the lo­cal men’s team con­sid­ered a gi­ant in the re­gion, stum­bled against the Ja­maicans.

Lat­er their con­cerns were fur­ther com­pound­ed when min­nows Bar­ba­dos were hand­ed a draw with a dom­i­nant Cana­di­an out­fit af­ter a heavy down­pour forced the match not to be played.

Mendez, de­spite se­cur­ing the ser­vices of Unit­ed States-based Ru­airi O’Far­rell and Keon Sylvester for the tour­na­ment the team, led by Sha­keel Dyte still could not stamp their dom­i­nance over the Cay­man Is­lands in their third match.

Guardian Me­dia Sports was in­formed that coach Lar­ry Mendez has lodged a query against the Cay­man Is­lands men in a 17-17 tie with the Cay­man Is­lands re­port­ed­ly for an in­ci­dent that led to the Cay­man Is­lands team scor­ing a try.

Should they win the protest, T&T will po­ten­tial­ly jump in­to the sec­ond po­si­tion be­hind the un­beat­en Cana­da. The T&T men’s cam­paign start­ed pos­i­tive­ly with a 12-5 vic­to­ry over Mex­i­co.

Yes­ter­day’s re­sults

Women’s Di­vi­sion

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 33 vs T&T ‘B’ 0

Ja­maica 12 vs T&T 10

T&T vs Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 15-0

Bar­ba­dos 14 vs T&T ‘B’ 12

Mex­i­co 22 vs T&T 22-0

Ja­maica 35 vs T&T ‘B’ 0

Mex­i­co 33 vs Bar­ba­dos 0

Mex­i­co 19 vs Ja­maica 12

Men’s Di­vi­sion

Cana­da 38 vs Bermu­da 0

Ja­maica 17 vs T&T (Tier 1) 5

Cay­man Is­lands 17 vs T&T (Tier 1) 17

Turks & Caicos Is­lands 25 vs St. Vin­cent & The Grenadines 10

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 19 vs Cu­raçao 0

Bar­ba­dos 21 vs Guyana 10

Mex­i­co 14 vs Cay­man Is­lands 12

Turks & Caicos Is­lands 0 vs Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 31

Cana­da vs Bar­ba­dos (Draw)

Bermu­da 7 vs Guyana 12

Mex­i­co 12 vs Ja­maica 10

T&T Se­nior Women’s Team

Leah Kin­ti­ba (Cap­tain), Aqiy­la O’Brien (Vice-Cap­tain), Lat­i­fah Carliste, Tere­si­ta Dil­lon, Alyssa Fields, Ap­phia Glas­gow, Ak­i­la Low­man, Thea Mar­rast, Ke­tara Munroe, Nico­lette Pan­tor, Kyiala Si­mon and Kan­isha Vin­cent.

T&T Se­nior Women’s 2nd Team

Ts Davis (Cap­tain), Or­nel­la George (Vice-Cap­tain), Abi­gail Adams, Kale­na Burke, Nathalia Cadiz, Aaliyah Davis, Elek­tra Den­nis, Chaneisha John, Fay-Ann John­son, Quaneisha Oliv­er, Sheni­ka Paul and Spe­cial Ryan.

Re­serves: Re­bec­ca Dick­son, On­i­ca George, Mari­ka Mendez and Ju­lene Thomas.

T&T Se­nior Men’s Team

Sha­keel Dyte (Cap­tain), Ru­airi O’Far­rell (Vice-Cap­tain), Nigel Balling­ton, Ke­ston Ear­le, Jahreem George, Don­té Haz­zard, James Phillip, Ag­boola Sil­ver­thorn, Isa­iah Small, Keon Sylvester, Jonathan Tay­lor & Keis­hon Walk­er.