LANGFORD, B.C. — Canada's women sevens rugby squad moved into Sunday's semifinal, and the men set a path to get there, as both teams won all their games Saturday at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Olympic qualifying tournament.
The Canadian women crushed Mexico 82-0, to punctuate lopsided victories over St. Lucia and Jamaica , and outscored their opponents by a combined 194-0, in front of 3,352 mostly Canada-supporting fans.
They certainly did that, scoring pretty much at will against a Mexican squad that infrequently had possession of the ball inside or outside its own end. "There is a big element of the unknown for us, so for us, we're trying to concentrate on ourselves," he said. After battering Barbados 38-0 in their opening match, the Canadians found themselves tied with a pesky Jamaican squad that trailed by only two with 2:13 remaining in the second of two seven-minute halves."Yes, it was a lot closer than what we were looking for, but hats off to Jamaica, they put an incredible performance together," said Alex Russell, who did most of the legwork on Webster's late insurance run down the wing.
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