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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Showdown as Flow Rugby League closes today

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A num­ber of com­mu­ni­ties from South Trinidad will come to­geth­er for the fi­nal day of com­pe­ti­tion in the Flow South Cen­tral Rug­by League (SCRL), at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do, tonight.

Boys and girls with a range of abil­i­ties, from those with lit­tle ex­pe­ri­ence to some who were ex­posed to in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion re­cent­ly will be on show at the ten-a-side event which is card­ed to run from 6-10 pm. It will be full con­tact rug­by.

Kick­ing off the night will be a clash be­tween Basse Terre and Guapo. Rain­bow SCC and Sixth Com­pa­ny will fol­low, be­fore the first girls' fix­ture fea­tur­ing a com­bi­na­tion of Sixth Com­pa­ny and Guapo com­bine against Rain­bow SCC. The event will con­clude fol­low­ing the fea­ture match be­tween Ex­iles and Rain­bow SCC, which is card­ed to start at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8.30 pm. Ex­iles and Rain­bow are the on­ly clubs from South cur­rent­ly in the na­tion­al youth league sys­tem and have dom­i­nat­ed the SCRL ahead of tonight's fi­nal. The win­ners of each match will re­ceive awards sup­plied by Flow.

The event is geared pri­mar­i­ly to play­ers at the Un­der-19 lev­els and younger di­vi­sions, most of whom were in­tro­duced to a rug­by car­a­van ini­ti­at­ed by Rudolph Jack, for­mer na­tion­al play­er and tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor of the Flow South Cen­tral Rug­by League, and as­sist­ed by Flow. This evening's event has al­so been sup­port­ed by the Mout­tet Group.

Through the as­sis­tance of Flow, Jack has man­aged to spread in­ter­est in the sport of rug­by through­out a num­ber of vil­lages and towns in South Trinidad. Jack, who found­ed Rain­bow SCC al­most three decades ago has faced sev­er­al chal­lenges in the te­dious task of pro­mot­ing the sport large­ly un­known to the re­gion, but said he now feels a sense of ac­com­plish­ment head­ing in­to the fi­nale of the South Cen­tral Rug­by League in its first sea­son.

"Since the car­a­van be­gan in Feb­ru­ary, many chil­dren have been ex­posed to the sport. A cou­ple play­ers have even got­ten in­to the Club Se­lect team, which we field­ed at the Nacra Un­der-19 Cham­pi­onships, last month. They rep­re­sent some of the teams which on­ly came on board from the car­a­van," said Jack.

He not­ed three play­ers from Basse Terre, broth­ers Ted and De­clan Davis and Miles Bri­an, all of whom quick­ly moved up the ranks to earn a spot in the Club Se­lect team. Ex­iles play­er Jar­ron Pan­ton al­so made it in­to the Club Se­lect, while his broth­er Leon Pan­ton was in the T&T Cham­pi­onship team. Jack al­so helped pro­duce a num­ber of play­ers who are in the na­tion­al ranks in­clud­ing his son, an­oth­er na­tion­al Un­der-19 play­er Them­ba Jack, as well as Ag­boola Sil­ver­thorne, who is re­gard­ed by many in the rug­by fra­ter­ni­ty as one of the most promis­ing young play­ers. He plays for the se­nior na­tion­al men's team.

Since the sport was of­fi­cial­ly in­tro­duced in this coun­try in 1922, no such youth-fo­cused event has made it way South and in­to the rur­al com­mu­ni­ties. He said plans re­main in place to in­tro­duce the sport to more com­mu­ni­ties. Jack cred­it­ed for­mer T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union sec­re­tary and cur­rent T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee pres­i­dent Bri­an Lewis as the per­son who in­tro­duced an ini­tia­tive to in­tro­duce rug­by in­to rur­al com­mu­ni­ties.

The next ma­jor ini­tia­tive by the South Cen­tral Rug­by League is for it to host a knock­out tour­na­ment in the 7s for­mat, in No­vem­ber. Jack said the short­er for­mat is the fu­ture of the sport in this coun­try.


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