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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Northern, Caribs reach Marcus Minshall knockout final

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Jovan Ravello
135 days ago
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Caribs Rugby Club winger Jerimiah Moore is tackled by Harvard Rugby team flyhalf Joseph Quashie while flanker Joshua Marson, left, reaches in during the Marcus Minshall rugby semifinal on Royalians’ pitch at Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, yesterday. Caribs won 33-20.

Caribs Rugby Club winger Jerimiah Moore is tackled by Harvard Rugby team flyhalf Joseph Quashie while flanker Joshua Marson, left, reaches in during the Marcus Minshall rugby semifinal on Royalians’ pitch at Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, yesterday. Caribs won 33-20.

ROBERTO CODALLO

Trinidad North­ern Rug­by Foot­ball Club (RFC) will de­fend its Mar­cus Min­shall Knock­out Cup ti­tle against peren­ni­al ri­vals Caribs in next week­end’s fi­nal af­ter both teams eased in­to the fi­nal on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

North­ern made light work of De­fence Force win­ning the sec­ond of two semi­fi­nals on the Caribs pitch in the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, 43-12.

Caribs earned their spot with a 33-20 vic­to­ry over Har­vard in the oth­er match on the Roy­alians’ pitch to stay on course for a League and Cup dou­ble.

Richard Sta­glon led the Caribs’ charge, reg­is­ter­ing two tries with one each com­ing from Ged­dess Phillip, Kar­lon Alexan­der, and Jonathan Tay­lor. Reinal­do Bermudez made five of four con­ver­sions.

For Har­vard Joseph Quashie, Sha­keel Dyte, and Keroy Wil­son all scored tries. Nigel Balling­ton pitched in with five points of his own.

Caribs are a win away from re­tain­ing the league ti­tle and could clinch it against Roy­alians next week­end at the same venue. North­ern is third with a game in hand in the race for the league ti­tle and will be hop­ing for an up­set when the two meet.

Last year, North­ern beat Roy­alians 19-15 in a keen­ly con­test­ed knock­out fi­nal.


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