T&T's closed off its ac­count in its de­but ap­pear­ance at the IRB Women's World Sev­ens Se­ries, yes­ter­day with a 34�10 de­feat to Japan in the bowl semi­fi­nal at the BB­VA Com­pass Sta­di­um, in Texas, USA, yes­ter­day.

T&T, which was down 7�0 with­in three min­utes, re­spond­ed in the fourth with a try from cap­tain Ju­liana Strak­er, which went un­con­vert­ed from Nico­lette Pan­tor. Two min­utes lat­er, Japan ex­tend­ed its lead, on­ly to al­low T&T back in the match again through a try from Tal­i­ah Wil­son. With the score at 12�10, Strak­er stepped up for the kick but missed the tar­get.

The sec­ond half was less com­pet­i­tive from the Asian's view­point as they got an­oth­er try with 30 sec­onds gone, then to score a fur­ther three tries, on­ly one of which was con­vert­ed. In the end, Japan won com­fort­ably, against the T&T team which was one of the most well re­ceived by the spec­ta­tors.

T&T, which fin­ished last in a very dif­fi­cult Pool A, en­ter­tained the crowd with tough tack­les, led most­ly through its en­er­getic skip­per, Strak­er.

Strak­er scored the on­ly try for T&T, which lost to New Zealand (50�0), Eng­land (48�0) and the Nether­lands (38�5) on the open­ing day. Sim­i­lar to T&T, Ar­genti­na and Brazil fin­ished root­ed at the bot­tom of Pool B and C, re­spec­tive­ly, af­ter los­ing all three of their match­es.

Coach Kitt An­drews-Nero's team were in ac­tion for the 11th/12th place play­off up to press time last evening.

Re­sults

Semi­fi­nal

Japan 34 vs T&T 10 (Ju­liana Strak­er try, Tal­i­ah Wil­son try)

Pool A

Nether­lands 38 vs T&T 5 (Ju­liana Strak­er try)

Eng­land 48 vs T&T 0

New Zealand 50 vs T&T 0