Sunday, 5th July 2009U19 Quarter Finals - Results
Results - Jam 34 Bah 9, T&T 23 Guy 5, Ber 0 Mex 33
Quarter final action from Cayman RFU, South Sound Rugby Club.
Weather conditions: Hot and Sunny. Pitch, once again in beautiful condition as the participating teams and spectators eagerly await the start of the U19s Caribbean Championships. All eyes will be on tournament newcomers Bermuda and Bahamas as well as an ever inproving Mexico.
Results from the Quarter finals 2009 U19s:
Score: Jamaica 34 Bahamas 9 (HT:10-3)
Referee: Larry Mendez (Trinidad & Tobago)
Score: Guyana 5 Trinidad & Tobago 23 (HT: 0-12)
Referee:Alasdair Robertson (Cayman Islands)
Score: Bermuda 0 Mexico 33 (HT: 0-19)
Referee: Tim Luscombe (USA)
Jamaica v Bahamas
Try after 5 mins by centre Ryan Grant give Jamaica an early 5-0 lead. Both teams start strong with hard tackles from both sides.
Penalty by Bahamas scrum half Conor Albury brings Bahamas to within 2 points at 5-3
Great passing movment along the Jamaica backs leaves outside centre Andre O'Conor enough space to score in the corner to put Jamaica 10-3 ahead at the interval. Both teams take a well earned half time breather after 35 minutes of hard, fast rugby played in blistering heat in the Caymans.
Bahamas open the scoring early in the second half with two penalties from Albury to take Bahamas to 1 point of Jamaica at 10-9.
Great handling by the Jamaica backs enables Grant to score his second try of the day and take Jamaica into a 15 -9 lead.
Andre O'Conor scores his second try of the tournament to extend the Jamaica's lead to 20-9. Ryan Grant converts (22-0). Fabian Turner and Trevor Morris each score to take Jamaica to a 32-9 lead. The conversion by Grant takes the score to 34-9.
A great opening match of the Championships. Credit to both teams for playing fast running rugby, in energy sapping conditions.
Full time: Jamaica 34 Bahamas 9
Guyana v Trinidad & Tobago
T&T take an early 12-0 lead with tries from 2nd row Michael Augustos and left wing Dorendie Mendozie-Jones, with the latter being converted by scrum half Kendall Mooto. Both teams have had good opportunties to score, though strong defence from both teams prevented. T&T relying more on their strong and well organised pack, lead by Augustos, whereas Guyana looking to move the ball out wide as often as possible. Half time: Guyana 0 T&T 12
Mundozie-Jones scores his second try of the match to take the score to 17-0 to T&T. Mooto slots a well struck penalty from the right hand touch to take the T&T lead to 20-0.
Guyana bring themselves back into the match with a try from 2nd row forward Soren Cox to reduce the T&T lead to 20-5.
Penalty from T&T fly half Zane Campbell extends the T&T lead to 23-5.
Full time score T&T 23 Guyana 5.
Bermuda v Mexico
In an evenly balanced first half, Mexican fly half Miguel Carner opened the scoring with a try mid way through the half, with Carner converting his own try, to take Mexico into 7-0 lead. Centre Christian Henning rounded off a well worked passage of back play to touch down in th corner to stretch the lead to 12-0. With a couple of minutes before the break, Carner broke the Bermudian defence at the half way line and out ran the defence to score am excellent solo try, which after duly converting himself further stretched the Mexican lead at half time to 19-0.
Immediately after the restart Carner touched down in the corner to secure his hatrick of tries, with Henning again converting (26-0).
Henning scored his second try late into the second and converts to give Mexico a well deserved 33-0 lead and a place in the semi-finals.
Semi-Finals:
Trinidad & Tobago v Mexico (July 8th 3.00 p.m.)
Cayman v Jamaica (July 8th 4.30)
Bowl Competition (Bahamas, Guyana & Bermuda):
Bahamas v Bermuda (July 7th 4.30 p.m.)
Guyana v Bermuda (July 9th 4.30 p.m.)
Bahamas v Guyana (July 11th 1.30 p.m.)
