De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Fa­ti­ma Col­lege eased past Queen's Roy­al Col­lege 17-0 to cap­ture the Dig­i­cel's Schools Rug­by un­der-17 di­vi­sion ti­tle on Sat­ur­day.QRC, led by cap­tain Xavier Hen­ry, cap­tured the un­der-14's ti­tle with a 12-7 win over St An­tho­ny's Col­lege, in the fi­nal. Hen­ry scored the sec­ond try in the win, which went un­con­vert­ed. Qua­si Phillip opened the scor­ing ear­ly on, and his try was con­vert­ed by Wasim Ol­livierre.Hen­ry was al­so a starter on the QRC team which fell out to Fa­ti­ma in the Un­der-17 fi­nal.

The two di­vi­sions played in the "touch" for­mat through­out the sea­son, typ­i­cal of cur­rent Schools' prac­tice.Fa­ti­ma's un­der-17s nev­er looked like­ly to con­cede in Sun­day's fi­nal. Apart from al­most al­low­ing free space to QRC's Elichi Todd, who was one of the tallest and fastest play­ers on the park, Fa­ti­ma held an im­pres­sive sol­id line. William Edghill, Deion Smith and Dar­nel Rop­er scored one try each. Hasani Rod­ney con­vert­ed Smith's try.Both the suc­cess­ful un­der-14 and un­der-17 teams were award­ed by Dig­i­cel with tro­phies and medals, while the oth­er fi­nals were be­ing played.

Fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the tour­na­ment, Har­vard "old-boy" Bri­an Lewis, who helped put to­geth­er the event, said it was a suc­cess de­spite the club's rug­by sec­tion be­ing turned down when seek­ing Cor­po­rate spon­sor­ship. "We tried some­thing dif­fer­ent this year and de­spite the lack of spon­sors and the heavy show­ers, the event went very well. The Novices and Un­der-15 di­vi­sions did not kick off but that was be­cause most of the younger guys de­cid­ed to play with the un­der-17s."

He con­tin­ued on say­ing, "Changes will be made to en­sure next year will be even bet­ter."Har­vard Rug­by Sec­tion Chair­man An­tho­ny Loreg­nard, al­so said that he was pleased with the out­come of the tour­na­ment. He, along with Lewis al­so ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Rain­bow which was suc­cess­ful in the un­der-10, un­der-12 and the un­der-17 (con­tact) di­vi­sions.Fol­low­ing the fi­nal match be­tween Har­vard and North­ern, the club host­ed the awards func­tion, where the MVPs and the re­spec­tive win­ning teams re­ceived their tro­phies.

The event which be­gan back in 1988 was then host­ed by the Fal­cons Rug­by Club and was brand­ed, the "Red Stripe Clas­sic." Har­vard took over the event when Fal­cons and Gue­varas Rug­by Club merged in 1998.