Re­vers­ing the re­sult from the first leg en­counter, Har­vard Rug­by Club re­turned to the top of the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union (T&TFRU) Toy­ota Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion stand­ings af­ter crush­ing reign­ing Caribs 31-5 at Caribs Ground, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, yes­ter­day. With both teams head­ing in­to the fix­ture with the same num­ber of match­es played, the win put Har­vard three points ahead of the "Beer Boys," with just two rounds re­main­ing, giv­ing Har­vard an ad­van­tage in search of its first ever se­nior rug­by tro­phy.

Har­vard start­ed stronger and quick­ly got off the mark on the quar­ter-hour when Claudius Butts scored un­der the post. His try was sub­se­quent­ly con­vert­ed by Ryan Hinck­son, putting Har­vard up 7-0. How­ev­er, it took Caribs just five min­utes to re­spond via a Ja­son Clarke try, which went un­con­vert­ed. The re­sult­ing turn of events, saw Caribs' Ronald Sil­ver­thorne yel­low-card­ed for car­ry­ing his mo­men­tum over the top of a ruck, trig­gered a Har­vard penal­ty which Row­ell Gor­don pounced on to score.

An ad­di­tion­al try from David Gokool soon af­ter the sec­ond, was fol­lowed with a third suc­cess­ful con­ver­sion by Hinck­son, giv­ing Har­vard a 21-5 lead at half time. Har­vard's lead in­creased in the sec­ond half, be­gin­ning with an ear­ly try from Cloyd Lon­don, which was con­vert­ed by Hinck­son, fol­lowed 20 min­utes lat­er by a suc­cess­ful penal­ty, again from Hinck­son. Caribs' day went from bad to worse when An­dre Cabr­era was sent off, red card, in the dy­ing mo­ments of the match, epit­o­mis­ing a poor evening from the usu­al­ly ruth­less cham­pi­ons.

Re­sults

Har­vard 31 (Claudius Butts 1 try, Row­ell Gor­don 1 try, David Gokool 1 try, Cloyd Lon­don 1 try, Ryan Hinck­son 3 conv, 1 pen) v Caribs 5 (Row­ell Gor­don 1 try)

North­ern 87 (Cu­bi­son Thorne 2 tries, Justin McLean 1 try, 5 conv, Adam Fred­er­icks 5 tries, Jonathan O'Con­nor 1 try, Ronald May­ers 2 tries, Bri­an Bak­er 1 try, 1 con­ver­sion, Ryan Fred­er­icks two tries, Gor­don Dal­gleish 1 try) v Po­lice 0

Roy­alians 46 (Samuel Skeete 2 tries, Mark Roberts 2 tries, Mark James 1 try, Shaquille Cum­mings 1 try, Akel Welch 1 try, Kereem Fi­garo 1 try, Kel­son Fi­garo 3 tries) v Rain­bow 7