Elite 7s
The Experts men's team and Loggerheads women's team won the first tournament of the three-event Premier 7s season Saturday.
Playing at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif, the Experts won the tournament despite being without captain Logan Tago in the final, he was injured. Still the Experts beat the Headliners 19-7 in the final, led by a huge game from prop Aaron Cummings.
The Atlantis U16 boys team won the U19 division at the Cheesesteak 7s in Wilmington, Del over the weekend.
The tournament numbered four teams, with everyone playing everyone else before there's a final and a 3rd-4th game.
Atlantis faces and beat the Explorers, MD15/Archmere, and Wilmington Colts.
Summer sees different approaches to 7s in high school rugby around the nation.
For some regions, they take a complete break. Others run a series of tournaments that are basically about just playing and having fun.
But you do see some more serious tournaments crop out as well.
We previewed the women's teams for the Premier Rugby 7s earlier this week so now it's time to look at the men's teams.
The PR 7s kicks off its three-tournament series this coming weekend with the stop in San Jose, followed by Washington DC a week later, and Austin, Texas on July 30.
This concept has already produced a couple of players who have received time in the USA 7s system, and with the series going strong for women as well as men its equal-opportunity approach has been received well.
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