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Monday, July 7, 2025

Harvard goes within a point of Caribs

...Bruno Browne to de­cide Cham­pi­onship

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With a bonus-point 67-14 win in the bag for de­fend­ing league cham­pi­on GNC Gatorade Har­vard over Roy­alians in the penul­ti­mate fix­ture in the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union's (TTR­FU) Toy­ota Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion, all eyes will be on the up­com­ing Bruno Browne fix­ture, which may de­ter­mine a re­turn to cham­pi­ons' sta­tus for 2011 cham­pi­on Caribs RFC.

While Caribs was on a bye on Sat­ur­day, Har­vard need­ed a win to stay in the hunt for the league ti­tle, and did so with the five-point win while put it a point be­hind Caribs head­ing in­to the fi­nal day of the league sea­son.

Har­vard opened a 29-7 half-time lead, play­ing at home at the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, cour­tesy of a pair of tries from both Joseph Quashie and Claudius Butts. On­ly two of the four tries were con­vert­ed by Ryan Hinck­son.

Roy­alians, al­ready 17-0 down be­fore the first half-hour pulled a try back from James Phillip, which was con­vert­ed by Fe­li­cian Guer­ra.

The sec­ond-half, which was an­oth­er one-sided af­fair, saw Har­vard on tar­get with a fur­ther six tries, half of which were con­vert­ed by Hinck­son.

Butts added a third try, while Cloyd Lon­don, Wayne Kel­ly, Val­lon Adams all added one try each. Row­ell Gor­don al­so added a pair of tries in the sec­ond half.

Just be­fore the end, Roy­alians soft­ened the blow with a try from Samuel, which was once again con­vert­ed by Guer­ra. The match was played si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly with Stag Trinidad North­ern's 19-0, four point win over Rain­bow.

North­ern is al­ready out of the run­ning for the league ti­tle, but re­mains with glo­ry to play for when it comes up against Caribs in the high­ly-an­tic­i­pat­ed an­nu­al Bruno Browne der­by match, which is both a cup and league fix­ture.

The match takes place on Sat­ur­day at the Queen's Park Oval, from 4 pm.

To win the league ti­tle out­right, Caribs will need to win with a bonus point, which is se­cured when a team scores four or more tries in a vic­to­ry. Caribs, which re­mains a point above Har­vard can lift the ti­tle, even if it does not win with a bonus point, due to its su­pe­ri­or "goal-dif­fer­ence", which stands at 208, 52 points more than Har­vard. There­fore, if Caribs wins but does not se­cure a bonus point, and Har­vard takes a mas­sive win with a bonus point, which see its over­take Caribs on goal-dif­fer­ence then the cham­pi­on will de­fend its ti­tle,

A draw for Caribs and North­ern, and a win for Har­vard will al­so see Har­vard win the cham­pi­onship.

The re­verse fix­ture in the first round be­tween North­ern and Caribs end­ed in a 15-15 stale­mate.

Har­vard, mean­while, took a bonus point, de­fault 28-0 win over Rain­bow in the first leg. Rain­bow sits bot­tom of the stand­ings with­out a win for the sea­son.

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