The T&T men’s team se­cured the sil­ver medal while its women’s com­pa­tri­ot got the bronze medal on Sunday as the cur­tains came down on the Rug­by Amer­i­c­as North (RAN) Sev­ens Tour­na­ment which was host­ed by the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma.

The men’s team, coached by Lar­ry Mendez, ex­pect­ed­ly went down to a more ex­pe­ri­enced Cana­di­an out­fit in the fi­nal 38-0 which was their on­ly blem­ish on an oth­er­wise per­fect day on the field.

Af­ter a sec­ond-day per­for­mance on Sat­ur­day sent them straight in­to yes­ter­day’s quar­ter­fi­nal round, the host de­liv­ered an ef­fort­less 29-0 tri­umph over re­gion­al ri­val Bar­ba­dos to cruise in­to the semi­fi­nals where they were joined by an­oth­er re­gion­al pow­er­house Ja­maica, and Cana­da whose reg­u­lar out­ings on the in­ter­na­tion­al cir­cuit had placed them in a class of their own this week­end.

How­ev­er, the lo­cal men earned a berth in the ti­tle match by beat­ing Mex­i­co 19-7, for the right to face the Cana­di­ans who ex­pect­ed­ly made light work out of the Ja­maicans 26-0.

In the fi­nal, ex­pe­ri­ence proved to be the dif­fer­ence as a rag­ing Cana­di­an at­tack led to tries on reg­u­lar oc­ca­sions.

Mean­while, the T&T women’s team gave a much-im­proved per­for­mance than the day be­fore, first hav­ing to bat­ter its com­pa­tri­ots, the T&T ‘B’ Team, 42-2 in their open­ing match for the right to con­test the play-off for third and fourth against the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

In that en­counter, the T&T women took charge ear­ly and didn’t let up un­til the fi­nal whis­tle, de­mol­ish­ing their coun­ter­part 29-0 for the over­all third-place fin­ish.

How­ev­er, the coun­try’s ‘B’ Team re­bound­ed from their ear­ly loss by clob­ber­ing Bar­ba­dos 22-5 in a fifth and sixth-place play-off.

Re­sults

Men’s Di­vi­sion

Men’s Tier 1

Cup Fi­nal

Cana­da 38 vs Trinidad & To­ba­go 0

Bronze medal match

Mex­i­co 0 vs Ja­maica 12

Semi­fi­nals

Cana­da 26 vs Ja­maica 0

Mex­i­co 7 vs Trinidad & To­ba­go 19

5th Place

Cay­man Is­lands 5 vs Bermu­da 10

7th Place

Guyana 22 vs Bar­ba­dos 5

Plate semi­fi­nals

Cay­man Is­lands 24 vs Guyana 12

Bermu­da 19 vs Bar­ba­dos 10

Quar­ter­fi­nals

Cana­da 38 vs Cay­man Is­lands 0

Ja­maica 38 vs Guyana 14

Mex­i­co 14 vs Bermu­da 0

Bar­ba­dos 0 vs Trinidad & To­ba­go 29

Men’s Tier 2

Cup Fi­nal

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 22 vs Cu­raçao 0

Bronze medal match

Turks & Caicos Is­lands 25 vs St Vin­cent & the Grenadines 5

Semi­fi­nals

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 34 vs St Vin­cent & the Grenadines 0

Cu­raçao 24 vs Turks & Caicos Is­lands 5

Women’s Di­vi­sion

Cup Fi­nal

Mex­i­co 19 vs Ja­maica 12

Bronze medal match

Trinidad & To­ba­go 29 vs Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 0

Women’s 5th Place

Bar­ba­dos 5 vs Trinidad & To­ba­go ‘B’ 22

Sec­ond round

Trinidad & To­ba­go 42 vs Trinidad & To­ba­go ‘B’ 0

Mex­i­co 39 vs Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic 0

Ja­maica 22 vs Bar­ba­dos 5