week in review

National News: Little more clarity was made about this summers games for the men's XV side, article can be found http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2013/01/tolkin-unveils-eagles-summer-schedule.html

also there was a Q&A article (1st of series to be released in the coming weeks) about the development of the APRC : http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2013/01/pro-rugby-q-with-aprcs-jason-moore.html

USA rugby south played a match against Mexico @ life university, in which USA rugby south won. The victory allows the South to advance in the North American Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) 15s championships, where they will play at Jamaica. but none the less the silver lining in my opinion is that Mexico for the lack of money and support the Mexican rugby union may have they have been playing more and more games over the past year. from playing in 7's tournaments through out the south to friendlies against USA colleges and others. personally i don't see why the USA cant have a development team for 7's and have them compete in at lest 3-4 tournaments if not far over sea's at lest close by like Canada and Mexico, Caribbean.

Huston 7's pools announced :very exciting round 2 of the women's seven series this year being played in Huston Texas with tickets still up for grabs.  http://usarugby.org/womens-sevens-news

International News: this years six nations will be broadcast on fox soccer plus, but the some what good news is that if you don't feel like shovelling out money just to watch a few six nation matches then the alternative side is that BBC America will broadcast 5 matches, the only team to be left out will be Italy.

Hong Kong and Japan 7's stops tickets are now on sale

Montpellier and Toulon qualify for the next round of the HC.


Local News: San Jose state rugby played two matches against Stanford rugby, both games went to San Jose state. 1) 43-27 game 2) 62-0

Cal went 3-0 first day of the Dennis Storer Classic at UCLA.

Men DI Club: SFGG 84-7 EPA Razorbacks , EPA Bulldogs 27-22 Sacramento Lions.

Men DII Club: Shreveport 30-23 Bay Area , Fresno 32-18 Sacramento Capitals , Pasadena 13-5 South Bay , San Jose 13-13 Vacaville , Kern County 65-13 Eagle Rock

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