Rugby-Wallabies utility Ioane commits to Queensland Reds
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- Rugby-Wallabies utility Ioane commits to Queensland Reds
- Rugby action to hit Lake Placid area; LP school fields won’t play host
- Rugby Club vies for league title
- SP Rugby Wins Bele Chere Sevens Tourney
Rugby-Wallabies utility Ioane commits to Queensland Reds
Reuters UK
The Reds have struggled to retain and recruit internationalstandard players and finished no higher than 10th in the pastfive Super rugby seasons. Wallabies centre Berrick Barnes said earlier this week hewas leaving to join the New South Wales Waratahs whileWallabies forward Hugh McMeniman is joining a Japanese club. Australia outside back Drew Mitchell a Queensland productalso chose to link with the Waratahs rather than rejoin theReds next season as he moved back to Australia’s east coastfrom the Western Force. Ioane had reportedly been the target of Australia’s otherSuper 14 teams and received international offers but said onSaturday he had committed with the Reds until the end of 2011. “I couldn’t see myself going anywhere else and startingover again.
Rugby action to hit Lake Placid area; LP school fields won’t play host
Lake Placid News
There are three baseball diamonds and four soccer fields at the grounds depending on how you arrange them said school board president Dan Nardiello. Although the fields were supposed to have been ready for the rugby tournament to use this summer the school board decided earlier this year not to let the tournament use them. Instead the tournament was offered the use of one field at the elementary school as well as the field inside the lympic val. “The concern earlier was that with the children coming back to school in September the fields would not have time to recover from that degree of usage” Nardiello said.
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Rugby Club vies for league title
Steamboat Pilot
Steamboat and Breckenridge play at 2 p. Saturday at Whistler Field to decide the 2009 Mountain League Championship. In a season shortened by scheduling conflicts Steamboat will have a chance to win its second league title in three years ? something the team set as a goal before the start of the season.
SP Rugby Wins Bele Chere Sevens Tourney
Southern Pines Pilot
Rugby Wins Bele Chere Sevens TourneyA short-handed Southern Pines Rugby team outplayed and outlasted 14 other teams to win the 2009 Bele Chere Rugby Sevens Tournament held this past weekend in Asheville. Throughout the tournament the Southern Pines team overcame injuries and younger opponents to win the title. In fact the team needed sudden death play in its semifinal and final matches to emerge victorious. “This is so deserving for our team after so many near wins in the different tournaments we have played in” said Steve Anchor captain of the Southern Pines Rugby club. “We had guys playing with stitches who were exhausted and physically drained so to come away with the championship trophy is a reward for the hard work in not only this tournament but for all the years we have been together.
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