Rain­bow Sports and Cul­tur­al Club hand­ed Stag Trinidad North­ern Rug­by Foot­ball Club their sec­ond de­feat of the sea­son when they beat them 24-15 at the Mara­bel­la Recre­ation Ground over the week­end. Rain­bow have not been hav­ing a fan­tas­tic sea­son thus far in the Toy­ota Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion League which speaks to the in­con­sis­ten­cy of a team that is lit­tered with raw rug­by tal­ent. How­ev­er, on the day they are able to field all of their tal­ent, in­clud­ing Na­tion­al and West In­dies play­er Mark Hamil­ton, who was once re­gard­ed by South African great Chester Williams as one of the best de­fend­ers on the In­ter­na­tion­al Rug­by Board (IRB) 7's cir­cuit, Rain­bow can com­pete with the best teams in the coun­try.

North­ern bad­ly missed their play­mak­er James Walkins and scrumhalf Jonathan O'Con­nor and they are see­ing their Toy­ota Cham­pi­onship League ti­tle hopes set like the evening sun on a cloudy day. Caribs Rug­by Foot­ball Club and the Har­vard Club were hand­ed their vic­to­ries with bonus points over Po­lice Rug­by Foot­ball Sec­tion and the De­fence Force Rug­by Team re­spec­tive­ly, en­sur­ing that Caribs re­mained on course for re­tain­ing the league ti­tle with Har­vard chal­leng­ing for the run­ners up spot. In Se­nior Di­vi­sion ac­tion on Sun­day, Roy­alians Rug­by Foot­ball Club com­fort­ably de­feat­ed Caribs Sec­ond XV 28-7. Roy­alians' tries came via James Phillip, Kel­son Fi­garo, who had a brace, and scrumhalf Dar­ryl Git­tens. Na­tion­al play­er Fe­li­cian Guer­ra had a per­son­al tal­ly of eight points from the boot with two penal­ties and a sin­gle con­ver­sion to fin­ish with 50% suc­cess be­tween the sticks.

Carl­ton Fe­lix was out­stand­ing for Roy­alians at the out­half po­si­tion with a high per­cent­age of pass­es com­plet­ed. Caribs Sec­ond XV, de­spite hav­ing top di­vi­sion play­ers An­dre Cabr­era, Miguel Lara and for­mer Na­tion­al play­er David Apang, could not get past two phas­es with pos­ses­sion. Breaks were rarely made and when they were, it was from one man - Caribs Sec­ond Row Ja­son Ri­ley, who had a stormer of a game. There were flash­es of bril­liance from An­drew Tay­lor and Zane Camp­bell but not of­ten enough to trou­ble the score­board. The Caribs' Num­ber 10 Sean Cae­sar kicked away pos­ses­sion too of­ten which played right in­to the hands of the Roy­alians, who moved the ball nice­ly down their back­line to re­lease Na­tion­al and West In­dies play­er Fi­garo, who is no stranger to try scor­ing. Both teams were pre­vi­ous­ly beat­en but now on­ly Roy­alians holds that ac­co­lade in the Se­nior Di­vi­sion.