The Lima Pan-American Games Men’s and Women’s Rugby Sevens began July 26 with the first round of Pool play at the Villa Maria del Triunfo cluster in Lima, Peru. On day two there are two pool matches and on Day 3 on July 28th the knock out round is being held. The Pan American Games are being held from July 26 to August 11, 2019.
Eight Men’s and Women’s teams will compete in each tournament. With 12 athlete rosters, a total of 192 athletes are scheduled to compete.
Day One Women’s Pool Round One Matches
Pool A
Colombia vs Argentina
Colombia opened the 2019 Lima Pan American Rugby Sevens competition with a 24-14 win over Argentina. Laura Mejia scored two tries for Colombia with Maria Arzuaga and Isabel Romero adding others. maria Lopera added a conversion. Argentina’s Myriam Mattus and Valeria Monterio scored tries with Monterio also adding a conversion, while Maria Pedrozo also converted.
USA vs Trinidad & Tobago
The USA opened the 2019 Lima Pan American Games with a 55-0 victory over Trinidad & Tobago. The USA scored 9 tries and added 5 conversions in the winning effort. Ariana Ramsey made her debut with three second-half tries. Kristi Kirshe had two tries, Cheta Emba had two tries and a conversion, Stephanie Rovetti 1 try, Kayla Canett 1 try and a conversion, and Alena Olsen 3 conversions.
Pool B
Brazil vs Peru
Peru opened the match with a try by Michelle Flores before Brazil scored 33 unanswered points. Brazil captain Raquel Kochhann scored a try and added 3 conversions, Isadora Cerullo added two tries and a conversion and Rafaela De Conti scored two tries.
Canada vs Mexico
Canada Shut out Mexico 54-0 Mexico to conclude the Women’s Round Day One matches. Tausani Levale was the leading point scorer for Canada with two tries and two conversions. Breanne Nicholas, Emma Chown, and Caroline Crossley also added two tries. Delaney Aikens and Olivia De Couvreur added solo tries for Canada.
Round Two Saturday, July 27
Tomorrow will consist of the two remaining Pool matches for each team. The pool results will determine the concluding Day 3 matches.
Women’s Pool
- A: USA, Colombia, Argentina, Trinidad & Tobago
- B: Canada, Brazil, Peru. Mexico
Women’s Rugby Sevens Squads
Argentina: 1 Mayra Aguilar, 2 Jaqueline Corzo, 3 Andrea Moreno, 4 Brisa Trigo 5 Gimena Mattus, 6 Valeria Casas, 7 Yamila Otero, 8 Josefina Padellaro, 9 Florencia Moreno, 10 Mayra Ghenghini, 11 Valeria Montero, 12 María Paula Pedrozo
Brazil: 1 Mariana Nicolau, 2 Eshyllen Coimbra, 3 Rafaela Zanellato, 4 Leila Silva, 5 Thalia da Silva Costa 6 Isadora Cerullo, 7 Aline Furtado, 8 Isadora Lopes,9 Aline Bednarski 10 Raquel Kochhann (C),11 Bianca dos Santos Silva,12 Milena Silva
Canada: 1 Delaney Aikens, 2 Kayla Moleschi (C) 3 Caroline Crossley, 4 Breanne Nicholas, 5 Tausani Levale, 6 Olivia De Couverer, 7 Sara Kaljuvee, 8 Pam Buisa, 9 Asia Hogan,10 Kaili Lukan, 11 Emma Chown,12 Temitiope Ogunjimi
Colombia: 1 Nicole Acevedo, 2 Isabel Romero, 3 Carmen Ibarra, 4 Daniela Alzate, 5 Lina Pedroza, 6 Catalina Arango, 7 Maria Isabel Arzuaga, 8 Leidy Soto, 9 Camila Maria Lopera, 10 Laura Mejía Diosa, 11 Sharon Acevedo,12 Valentina Tapias
Mexico: 1 Michelle Farah 2 Isabela Gonzalez-Berazueta 3 Zoe Tuyu 4 Alejandra Rosales 5 Maria Tovar 6 Jennifer Balomon 7 Vanessa Rodriguez 8 San Juanita Elquezbal 9 Daniela Alvardo 10 Karime Cabrena 11 Bertha Landeros (C) 12 Rosa Rivera
PERU: 1 Michelle Flores Cordero, 2 Natel Correa, 3 Beatriz Orcotoma, 4 Mariagracia Domínguez, 5 Rosemary Quesada Guzmán (C), 6 Sammy Chuquivala Perez, 7 Paula Pacheco Flores, 8 Karoline Vergara Henderson 9 Melissa Vargas De La Jara, 10 Lieneke Ratto Schol, 11 Lucy Granda Alvarado, 12 Andrea Masias
Trinidad & Tobago: 1 Kwanieze John, 2 Carlina Phillip, 3 Aqiyla O’Brien, 4 Maria Thomas, 5 Marika Mendez, 6 Fayola Jack, 7 Blossom Stewart, 8 Kanisha Vincent, 9 Kathleen Stephen, 10 Nicolette Pantor (C), 11 Apphia Glasgow, 12 Leah Kintiba, + Head CoachCarlton Felix
USA: 1 Cheta Emba, 2 Ilona Maher, 3 Abby Gustaitis, 4 Alena Olsen, 5 Stephanie Rovetti, 6 Lauren Thunen 7 Naya Tapper, 8 Jordan Matyas (C), 9 Emily Henrich,10 Kayla Canett, 11 Ari Ramsey, 12 Kristi Kirshe, + General Manager & Head Coach Emilie Bydwell
Day One Men’s Pool Round One Matches
Pool A
Brazil vs Chile
Brazil and Chile opend the Men’s Lima Pan American Rugby Sevens competition with a 14 all draw. With the USA following with a 62-0 win over Guyana, the day two matches for Brazil and Chile will likely determine the number two team out of Pool A.
Brazil scored two tries, solo efforts by Lucas Duque and Daniel Sancery with Josh Reeves and Moises Duque adding conversions. Chile added tries by Francesco Urroz and Rodrigo Fernandez with Fernandez and Marcelo Torrealba adding conversions.
USA vs Guyana
The USA players wanted to show that they deserved to be on the 2019-2020 HSBC Sevens Series by beating Guyana 62-0.
The USA opened the scoring with a try by Anthony Welmers and a conversion by Cody Melphy. Demonte Noble added another with Melphy converting again to lead 14-0. Maceo Brown, Harvey Wheeler, and Marcus Tupuola added tries with Melphy adding a conversion on the last try to lead 31-0 at the break.
The USA opened the second half with a try by Jake Lachina with Melphy converting to lead 38-0. Brown and Broselle then added tries to push the lead to 48-0. The restart by Naima Fula’au was gathered in the air by Maceo Brown for a highlight try with Fuala’au converting. Broselle added a final try with Fuala’au again converting for the 62-0 opening victory.
Pool B
Canada vs Uruguay
Canada scored five tries and added three conversions by Nathan Hirayama for a 31-0 win over Uruguay. Hirayama also added two ties along with Adam Cejanovic with Josiah Morra adding a solo one.
Argentina vs jamaica
Argentina concluded day one with a 52-0 victory over Jamaica. Francisco Ulloa was the team’s points leader with 16 on the strength of two tries and three conversions. Fernando Luna had two tries, with Tomas Vanni, German Schultz, and Matias Osadczak adding solo ones. Santiago Mare added three conversions.
Round Two Saturday, July 27
Tomorrow will consist of the two remaining Pool matches for each team. The pool results will determine the concluding Day 3 matches.
Men’s Pool
- A: USA, Brazil, Chile, Guyana
- B: Argentina, Canada, Uruguay, Jamaica
Men’s Rugby Sevens Squads
Argentina: 1 Fernando Luna, 2 Felipe del Mestre, 3 Germán Schulz, 4 Francisco Ulloa, 5 Tomás Vanni 6 Santiago Álvarez (C), 7 Lautaro Bazán Vélez, 8 Gastón Revol, 9 Matías Osadczuk, 10 Santiago Mare, 11 Luciano González, 12 Franco Sábato,
Brazil: 1 André Arruda, 2 Stefano Giantorno 3 Robert Tenório 4 Laurent Bourda-Couhet, 5.Lucas Duque, 6 Moisés Duque 7 Lorenzo Massari, 8 Felipe Sancery, 9 Daniel Silva, 10 Lucas Tranquez11 Daniel Sancery, 12 Joshua Reeves
Canada: 1 Sean Duke, 2 Admir Cejvanovic, 3 Brennig Prevost, 4 Phil Berna, 5 Luke McCloskey, 6 Cooper Coats, 7 Josiah Morra, 8 Joshua Thiel, 9 Nathan Hirayama (C), 10 Pat Kay, 11 Harry Jones (C), 12 Adam Zaruba
Chile: 1 Felipe Brangier (C) , 2 Felipe Neira, 3 Martín Sigren, 4 Marcelo Torrealba, 5 Rodrigo Fernández, 6 Nicolás Garafulic, 7 Ignacio Silva, 8 Francisco Neira, 9 Francisco Metuaze, 10 Francisco Urroz 11 Julio Blanc,12 Vicente Tredinick
Guyana: 1 Vallon Adams, 2 Richard Staglon,3 Dwayne Schroeder, 4 Selwyn Henry 5 Lancelot Adonis,6 Jamal Angus (C) , 7 Patrick King, 8 Ronald Mayers 9 Osie McKenzie, 10 Peabo Hamilton, 11 Claudius Butts, 12 Godfrey Broomes + Coach Sherlock Sam
Jamaica: 2 Omar Dixon, 3 Sam Caven, 4 Linval Green, 5 Rhodri Adamson, 6 Conan Osborne, 7 Mikel Facey, 8 Oshane Edie, 9 Ashley Smith (C), 10 James Gordon, 11 Tyler Bush, 12 Mason Caton-Brown,13 Reinhardo Richards
Uruguay: 1 James McCubbin, 2 Marcos Pastore, 3 Santiago Piñeyrúa, 4 Tomás Ubilla, 5 Juan Passadore, 6 Diego Ardao,7 Mateo Viñals 8 Manuel Castro, 9 Eugenio Plottier, 10 Mateo Soneira, 11 Koba Brazionis 12 Juan Bautista Hontou,
USA: 1 Ben Broselle, 2 Harley Wheeler* ,3 Joe Schroeder (C) ,4 Jake Lachina*, 5 Marcus Tupuola, 6 Travion Clark*,7 Cody Melphy (C), 8 Maceo Brown, 9 Naima Fuala’au, 10 Anthony Welmers, 11 Lorenzo Thomas*, 12 D’Montae Noble*
Schedule & Results
July 26, 2019 *ET is 1 hour later, DJCoil Rugby Day One Recap
- Colombia 24-14 Argentina (Femenino)
- USA 55-0 T&T (Femenino)
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Brazil 33-5 Peru (Femenino)
- Canada 54-0 Mexico (Femenino)
- Brasil 14-14 Chile (Masculino)
- USA 62-0 Guyana (Masculino)
- Canada 31-0 Uruguay (Masculino)
- Argentina 52-0 Jamaica (Masculino)
July 27, 2019 *ET is 1 hour later
- 10:10 am Colombia v T&T (Femenino)
- 10:35 am USA v Argentina (Femenino)
- 11:00 am Brazil v Mexico (Femenino)
- 11:25 am Canada v Peru (Femenino)
- 11:50 am Brasil v Guyana (Masculino)
- 12:15 am USA v Chile (Masculino)
- 12:40 pm Canada v Jamaica (Masculino)
- 13:05 pm Argentina v Uruguay (Masculino)
- 14:00 pm Argentina v T&T (Femenino)
- 14:25 pm USA v Colombia (Femenino)
- 14:50 pm Peru v Mexico (Femenino)
- 15:15 pm Canada v Brazil (Femenino)
- 15:40 pm Chile v Guyana (Masculino)
- 16:05 pm USA v Brasil (Masculino)
- 16:30 pm Uruguay v Jamaica (Masculino)
- 16:55 Argentina v Canada (Masculino)
July 28, 2019 *ET is 1 hour later
- 9:10 am Cuartos de final FA 4to vs FB 3ro (5to lugar Femenino SF1)
- 9:35 am Cuartos de final FA 3ro vs FB 4to (5to lugar Femenino SF2)
- 10:00 am Cuartos de final FA 2do vs FB 1ro (Semifinal de Oro Femenino1)
- 10:25 am Cuartos de final FB 1ro vs FA 2do (Semifinal de Oro Femenino2)
- 10:50 am Cuartos de final MA 3ro vs MB 4to (5to Lugar Masculino SF1)
- 11:15 am Cuartos de final MB 3ro vs MA 4to (5to Lugar Masculino SF2)
- 11:40 am Cuartos de final MA 1ro vs MB 2do (Semifinal de Oro Masculino1)
- 12:05 pm Cuartos de final MB 1ro vs MA 2do (Semifinal de Oro Masculino2)
- 13:00 pm Perdedor M25 vs perdedor M26 femenino
- 13:25 pm Ganador M25 vs ganador M26 femenino
- 13:50 pm Perdedor M29 vs perdedor M30 masculino
- 14:15 pm Ganador M29 vs ganador M30 masculino
- 14:40 pm Perdedor M27 vs perdedor M28 femenino (medalla de bronce)
- 15:05 pm Perdedor M31 vs perdedor M32 masculino (medalla de bronce)
- 15:30 pm Ganador M27 vs ganador M28 femenino (Oro y Plata)
- 16:00 pm Ganador M31 vs ganador M32 masculino (Oro y Plata)
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