A win for Caribs Rug­by Foot­ball Club to­day over Roy­alians will see the cham­pi­on re­tain sec­ond spot in the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union (T&TR­FU) Toy­ota Cham­pi­on Di­vi­sion, when the lone, resched­uled match of the di­vi­sion kicks off at Caribs' Pitch, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, from 4.30 pm. The "Beer Boys" have won all three match­es thus far this sea­son and now sit sev­en points be­hind Har­vard but with two match­es in hand. They will cut the deficit by two points, grant­ed the team earns a bonus point with four or more tries. The cham­pi­on has been out of ac­tion for the past two weeks, fol­low­ing a 17-10 vic­to­ry over the cur­rent leader.

The Roy­alians, mean­while, have not been con­vinc­ing, with on­ly one win in their four match­es. A vic­to­ry, how­ev­er, will see them over­take cur­rent fourth placed team Stag Trinidad North­ern, which is strug­gling to find form with on­ly two wins in five match­es. Mean­while, the first round of Women's league match­es will com­mence to­day with all four teams in ac­tion.

At Roy­alians' pitch, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, cham­pi­on Roy­alians will clash with Caribs at 2.30 pm, while Ro­mans chal­lenge Po­lice in St James from the same time.

To­ba­go, UWI in Mar­cus Min­shall open­er

The Mar­cus Min­shall Cup is set to start to­day in First Round ac­tion, when a pair of Se­nior Di­vi­sion teams, To­ba­go Rug­by Foot­ball Club and the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) con­vene in To­ba­go from 4.30 pm. The two teams will vie for a spot in the quar­ter-fi­nal ver­sus reign­ing cham­pi­on Caribs, which will be played next Sun­day. To­mor­row, the sec­ond First Round fix­ture will see Caribs 2 tak­ing on Rain­bow 2 at Har­vard Pitch, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, al­so at 4.30 pm.