December 7-8: Atlantis Men, Women at Tobago 7s

(Atlantis tournament #141)
Emil Signes

DECEMBER 30, 2013 (rev. January 7, 2014)

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Ida scores vs. Maple
          Leafs
Ida Bernstein scores long try in losing cause vs. Maple Leafs in the finals (Photo by Adam Dick)

Introduction

Atlantis played in its 141st tournament since 1986, and fielded its 198th separate squad, in the 3rd annual Tobago 7s on December 7-8, 2013.

Both Atlantis men and Atlantis women took part: the men made it to the semifinals and the women to the finals, sporting identical 5-2 records (plus a forfeit win for the women).  The tournament champions were New York City Sevens Men (an Olympic Development Academy squad), and Maple Leaf Women (a Canadian squad with 7 contracted players; the rest national U-20 players).

Ida Bernstein led the Atlantis women’s scoring with 7 tries and Chris Mattina was the men’s leading try scorer with 5.

This is the 13th time Atlantis has participated in a T&T sevens tournament (the previous 12 were in tournaments known as the Caribbean Sevens, all on the island of Trinidad) and the 8th time we have fielded both men’s and women’s teams in T&T.  This is the 12th men’s squad to reach at least the semifinals; three of those squads have reached the finals.  The women have reached the finals 10 times, having won the tournament 6 times.  In 2001 the two Atlantis women’s teams met each other in the finals; this year’s physio Sarah Sall was a member of the 2001 winning team (in which the 12 youngest players – Atlantis Junior – defeated the 12 oldest (Atlantis Senior).



The Atlantis Tour Party

Women's Team
Men's Team
Meganne Atkins, NOVA
Phil Bolton, Cleveland Rovers
Ida Bernstein, Scion Sirens
Walt Elder, Kansas City Blues
Ashley Clancy, Beantown/Boston Belles
Jake Feury, Middlebury College
Amy Daniels, Beantown/Boston Belles
Matt Hughston, Charlotte
Farrah Douglas, Scion Sirens
Chris Mattina, U. Delaware/New York AC
Ariel Johnson, NOVA
Tim Moxness, Dallas Harlequins
Rosalie MacGowan, New York (captain)
Matt Radzavich, Austin Huns
Amy Naber, San Diego Surfers
Marcus Respes, Old Blue
Tiffany Person, TC Williams HS (VA)
Jeff Reuther, New Orleans (captain)
Lauren Rhode, DC Furies
Kenny Scott, Kansas City Blues
Gina Steffano, Houston
Zack Stryffeler, 1823 (OH)
Eli White, DC Furies
Glen Thommes, U. Delaware
Josie Ziluca, NOVA


Pictures of each Atlantis player on game days may be found here.


Nonplayers were Emil Signes (Emperor & Coach), Adam Dick (Manager), Peter Baggetta (Coach), Jerry Mirro (Coaching Consultant and Atlantis player #14, 1986), Sarah Sall & Lori Gerber (Medical), Sean Leahy and Maria Centeio.
 

Welcome to T&T
Trinidad and Tobago welcomes our arrival

Background

Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (independent from the UK since 1962) comprises the two southernmost islands of the Caribbean chain.  We often don’t realize how far south it is: at its closest T&T is only 7 miles from Venezuela and it is far enough south to be outside the hurricane belt. 

The ethnic composition of T&T is about 35% East Indian, 35% African, 23% “mixed,” and less than 1% white.  Of the original pre-Columbian inhabitants, the Amerindians, it is estimated that less than 0.1 % remain. Its population is about 1.3 million, with less than 60,000 living in Tobago.  In Tobago itself the major ethnicity is Afro-Caribbean.

Tobago is only about 2,000 square miles, larger than Rhode Island but smaller than Delaware.  Christopher Columbus spotted it in 1498 and other Europeans soon followed.  Among the European rulers of Tobago were the Spanish, Dutch, English, French and Courlanders (I had to do some research to find out that Courland is now in western Latvia – go figure).

It’s a beautiful island with many natural attractions, and offers opportunities for swimming, snorkeling and scuba diving, horseback riding, off-road excursions, mountain biking, many other fun activities.  For those of us that came just for the Thursday through Sunday window, there wasn’t time to do too much else (well there was Christmas caroling, goat racing and the beach), but several people came a day early and/or stayed a day late, and their stories sound amazing.


Map T&T
Lower left: Venezuela / Center: Trinidad / Upper right: Tobago
We stayed in the southwest corner of Tobago, in Crown Point

The Tobago Sevens

The Caribbean 7s began in Trinidad in 1987, and lasted until 2009; in 2011 it was reconstituted in Tobago as the Tobago 7s.  This was the first Tobago 7s for Atlantis, which had participated in 12 of the Caribbean 7s in Port of Spain.

Atlantis 

Begun in 1986 as an Eastern US venture (short for "Atlantic Sevens"), Atlantis quickly became a nation-wide enterprise.  Our color (aquamarine), our logo, and the Roman numerals on our jerseys were all inspired – even if inaccurately – by the Atlantis legend. (And, just to keep the record straight, we were playing sevens long before the Atlantis hotels in Nassau and Dubai, etc. were constructed.) The Atlantis women first played in 1992.

Atlantis has multifaceted goals.  At the domestic level, we are trying to improve the level of sevens in the US by mixing sides of experienced players and novices. 

For top international tournaments, we strive to assemble teams representing the best the US has to offer.  Occasionally we include guest players from other countries.

The 942 Atlantis players since 1986 (582 men and 360 women) represent all areas of the world.  Based on birthplaces and/or residences, they represent 42 states (all but HI, KY, MS, NV, NH, NM, SD and VT), DC and American Samoa.  Likewise (birth or residence) they represent 25 foreign countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, USSR, Wales, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe. Atlantis has been a very inclusive organization!

We are particularly proud of the many US national team players (Eagles) that have played for us and of Atlanteans that have gone on to represent the US: 185 Eagles (116 men and 69 women) have played for Atlantis.  98 of these represented Atlantis prior to the US.  Several Atlantis players have represented 11 other countries' national teams as well; specifically Argentina, Canada, England, Fiji, Hong Kong, Ireland, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, USSR, Uruguay, and Yugoslavia. 

A Week in Tobago

Team activities

A few of us got in Tuesday evening, the rest at a few different times Wednesday with nearly the entire team in by midnight Wednesday.  Representatives of the tournament committee met each flight at the airport with a few cold bottles of Carib, the local beer.

We trained twice on Thursday and again Friday morning.  Thursday evening was caroling night. Friday afternoon was goat racing and Friday evening was our team meal and jersey ceremony.  Saturday and Sunday were games, with a video session Saturday night to prepare for Sunday. Sunday night following the games there was a rookie show; afterwards everyone was off to party. And at every meeting there was the probability of a fine session.

For those that stayed there was a tournament beach party on Monday. In addition, some that came in a day early and/or left a day late spent their spare time in various exciting activities including horseback riding and/or taking a scooter or rental car trip around the island. 

Accommodations

The accommodations were spacious and reasonably priced.  We stayed at Johnston Apartments and the Crown Point Beach Hotel, two separate establishments that shared the same space, right on the beach.  Rooms were suites, a bedroom with two beds and a living room also with two beds, so we could fit 4 to an apartment and not be crowded. And each apartment had a fridge.

There was a restaurant at the hotel, but there were also lots of places to get nice and reasonable meals within a 10-minute walk.


View from Crown Point
          Beach Hotel
View from the Crown Point Beach Hotel grounds

Practices

Thursday we met in the morning where we discussed our game plan and what we would be covering at each practice.  We then got a bus to practice at the tournament fields, about 20 minutes away. As Atlantis was the only team there in the morning, the men and women were able to work separately, one on each field, where we played full-field touch and also worked on kickoffs.  With Peter Baggetta and me, both fields had coaching throughout.  When it made sense, we worked together, e.g. on scrums and lineouts (men v men, women v women, but in a small area so we could have feedback to both at the same time).  We also made the women play defense against the men for several minutes to put them under more pressure than they’d ever be under in a game against women.  Men need to cooperate for this type of competition to work; they did and it did.  (Pat Summitt, legendary Tennessee women’s basketball coach used to regularly use men for her women to practice against, and I’ve done it on numerous occasions, most recently when the Princeton U. women had a run against the OMBAC men on our tour of San Diego in 2013.  We followed up with an Ivy League championship.)
 

Teams boot up prior to practice   Women defend v.
        men
Left: Both teams booting up prior to practice
Right: Women vs. Men

Caroling 

Each team was given the assignment of singing a couple of carols for the rest of the teams.  It always seems odd to me, Northeasterner that I am, to be singing Christmas carols outside after dark in shorts and a tee shirt, but that was each team’s task on Thursday evening. Walt Elder was our leader and organized a couple of practices.  We came out with Walt - as an elf carried out by other elves – leading the intro to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (“You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and …”) and being joined by the entire team for the body of the song. Another couple of songs followed and, besides enjoying it, we managed not to be booed off the stage.

Elves carry Walt to
          caroling
Elves carry Walt on to the stage


Walt emerges through Atlantis throng
Walt appears from out of the throng to lead us in Rudolph
Click on image to see performance

Goat Race

Friday afternoon the teams were participants in a mandatory goat race.  I wasn’t there, but per Jeff Reuther, our jockey: “Bidding was Calcutta style; our team pooled money to bid on a goat auction style.  If your goat won, you split the pot with the goat owner.  You also provided a jockey to run behind your goat.  I finished in the bottom half with my goat.  A faster man would have done better!”


Goat Race, Jeff on left 
At the Goat Races: Jeff and his trusty steed at far left
Click on Image to See Goat Race

Meals

We were on our own for meals, and continually found nice high quality affordable restaurants within walking distance in the village of Crown Point, including Al Wadi and Skewers, both specializing in Middle Eastern food.

Another good food call was our team dinner.  I asked Brian Stollmeyer, good friend and organizer of the Tobago Sevens (and before that the Caribbean Sevens), for a nice place to have a team dinner, and he suggested Colours, a restaurant on the Milford Road leading out of Crown Point (and less than a 10-minute walk from our hotel).  Colours is owned and operated by retired Caribbean Airlines pilot Stephen Dolly.  It turned out to be a great choice, as he reserved the entire restaurant for us and Friday night all 33 of us were able to eat at 3 tables in the same room. Food was buffet style and endless (Brian wisely asked Stephen to add 20 TT – about $3 – to the base 100 TT per person cost and more food to the pot to make sure we wouldn’t run out), so all of us were able to eat our fill.  Following the meal, we had our obligatory daily fine session and gave out nicknames.


 
Colours sign
Colours: site of our team dinner
 

Why it's called
          Colours
As soon as we entered it was clear why the place was called Colours
Zack’s shorts (yellow, right) and Eli’s (green, left) complemented the theme

Nicknames

It’s commonplace on our tours to have tour members assign one another nicknames, and to try to use them throughout the tour.  Usually one or two stick so that, years later, everyone from that tour refers to a couple of their tour mates by their nickname.  Nicknames on this tour included but were not limited to Wrecking Ball, Mr. Bean, Michael Bolton, Knocked Up*, Ron Burgundy, Nemo, Wiki, Honey Boo Boo, Squints, FJ, etc.

* “Knocked up” is the only nickname for which I’ll report the etymology.  Kenny Scott arrived in Tobago nearly two days late because, he reports, he was 4 minutes late to check into the airport in Kansas City.  His itinerary was cancelled and it became complicated.  Ida Bernstein was assigned to name him and she described her thought process: “Kenny was late.  Sometimes when you’re late it means you’re pregnant, and … “ Sometimes when we assign the task of nicknaming this is the kind of reasoning we get. (Which of course is the kind of reasoning we’re looking for ☺).

Oh, and finemasters Marcus Respes and Meganne Atkins imposed some pretty severe levies for misbehavior by just about everyone. (Well, as we were in Colours, I suppose it was for misbehaviour.)


Entire squad at
          Colours
Everyone following team dinner at Colours

We returned to our hotel, presented the players their jerseys to help get them into competition mode, and got some sleep.

Before going on to the games, I’d like to digress to a topic near and dear to my heart.  Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the men and women of rugby in the US really didn’t like each other.  As in really really didn’t.  As I was coaching both men and women throughout that entire time period this bothered me and I made it one of my goals to change this attitude where possible.  In my own little universe – in particular through co-ed Atlantis tours – I think I’ve succeeded, and once again everyone got along remarkably well: both teams cheered for each other on the field and laughed together off it.  On a larger and more significant scale, I’ve written about the general topic in http://www.emilito.org/rugby/olympicsandme/index.html.
 

  
Tobago Sevens Banner
  Welcome to the Tobago International Rugby 7s


Scrum v Invictus showing Background
Atlantis scrum vs Invictus showing beautiful backdrop
(and the cool Invictus jerseys)

Games: First day Undefeated

The Tobago Sevens, as was its predecessor, the Caribbean Sevens in Trinidad, is one of the most game-intensive sevens tournaments in the world – 8 games to reach the finals (and I remember one year it was 10 games - though there were also rolling subs allowed that year – which was great!).  On Day 1 everyone participates in 4-team round robins, and Day 2 begins with more round robin play.

 
Atlantis Men at Tobago
          Sevens
Atlantis men at Tobago Sevens
Top, L to R: Emil Signes, Marcus Respes, Adam Dick, Peter Baggetta, Jake Feury, Glen Thommes, Matt Hughston, Tim Moxness, Chris Mattina, Sarah Sall, Lori Gerber
Bottom, L to R: Jeff Reuther, Kenny Scott, Zack Stryffeler, Matt Radzavich, Phil Bolton, Walt Elder

The men caught the 7:30 bus to the fields for our first game at 9 AM.  Though their game wasn’t for an hour and a half after the men’s, the women got there just a few minutes later to be the men’s sideline support.

Atlantis Men: 3-0

The men began the day with a big victory over Invictus, a made for the day Trini club, 45-0.  They followed it up with two more shutouts over top T&T clubs Carib and Royalians (29-0 and 32-0). Tim Moxness and Chris Mattina each had 3 first-day tries.

 
Rad's diving try
Matt Radzavich dives for try against Caribs (Photo by Judy Teasdale)

Atlantis Women 2 (or 3)-0

In their first game, the women gave up a try to the Samurai Beavers A (UK) but went on to win a tight 12-5 decision. They then defeated Barbados 24-0 before being disappointed with a forfeit victory over no-show Guyana University. Ida Bernstein, with two tries, was the only person with more than one.

Wellness Support

The more the week ran its course, the more we availed ourselves of the services of Sarah Sall and Dr. Lori Gerber. Based on her experience with the USA national teams, Sarah made sure we had a full physio room full of supplies.  They were a true synergistic duo: between the two of them they did a lot of hands-on work, pre-hab, post muscle work, taping, dealing with injuries, stitching, internal medicine (and hydration consulting ☺).  They worked not only at the pitch but also back at the hotel at all hours. They even supplied their own entertainment including Catch Phrase.


Atlantis Women at
          Tobago Sevens
2013-12-08 Atlantis Women @ Tobago 7s
Atlantis Women at Tobago Sevens
Top, L to R: Peter Baggetta, Ashley “Flicka” Clancy, Ida Bernstein, Tiffany Person, Meganne Atkins, Rosalie MacGowan, Josie Ziluca, Amy Daniels, Emil Signes, Maria Centeio
Bottom, L to R: Gina Steffano, Farrah Douglas, Amy Naber, Ariel Johnson, Lauren Rhode, Eli White, Lori Gerber, Sarah Sall


Lauren stiff-arms
          Beaver
Lauren Rhode fends off Beaver tackler in first game (Photo by Judy Teasdale)

Jerry Mirro.  Long-time Atlantis player and well-traveled coach Jerry Mirro
(Atlantis player #14, 1986; OMEX, Montauk, Long Island and Stony Brook coach – as well as coach of Northeast and Empire State All Star 7s teams) decided at the last minute to join us and provided a lot of valuable coaching insight.  Marcus Respes showed a little bit of Jerry love by including a Jerry mustache on his shaven head.


Jerry & Marcus
          with Jerry 'stache 
Jerry Mirro with Marcus Respes, who’s sporting a Jerry ‘stache on his head

First-day tries may be found here:

Men's game 1 vs. Invictus: Atlantis' 7 tries
Men's game 2 vs. Carib: 3 of Atlantis' 5 tries
(Men's game 3 vs. Royalians was not taped)

Women's game 1 vs. Samurai Beavers A: Atlantis' 2 tries
Women's game 2 vs. Barbados: Atlantis' 4 tries
(Women's game 3 vs. Guyana was a forfeit to Atlantis)

Games, Day 2: Men

As noted earlier, we weren’t short-changed for game time. Following Saturday’s play, the top two teams in each pool were re-seeded into another pool: no wimpy quarterfinals, but two more championship rounds of 4 teams each (the bottom two were similarly seeded in the lower Calabash Cup competition), to determine which teams would move on into the semifinals.  For both the men and the women it would mean moving on, but due to a loss each in this round robin, it meant we’d each have to face a #1 seed.

Round Robin 2

The men met two second place teams from other brackets – Rainbow and Northern (T&T), as well as the Canadian Invitational side Dog River Howlers.  For me it was a re-match with one of Karl Fix’s teams; our teams have played against each other in T&T since 1995 and Karl’s teams have won all the matchups (the first in 1995 when we lost to the Maple Leaf men 15-12 in the championship final).  All three pool matchups were close, competitive matches.  We defeated Rainbow 22-10 and Northern 24-14 in great matches. 

The big “might have been” of the day was the men’s 12-7 loss to the Howlers.  In the second half, with the game in the balance, Jeff Reuther made a fabulous break through the Howler’s line, but hit a patch of mud (there was a lot of rain over the weekend and the footing was treacherous) and went down. 

Semifinal

In the semifinal vs. Esher (UK) we let them score 4 quick tries in 4 minutes before we woke up; from then on we played them even.  But even isn’t good enough when you’re down 24-0, and the final score was 31-7. Esher went on to bow to New York City Sevens (deserved winners) in the final.
 

Walt makes sock
          tackle
We lost to Esher despite "the great sock tackle" by Walt (Photo by Judy Teasdale)

Games, Day 2: Women

Round Robin 2

In our first round robin game, led by Amy Naber and Flicka Clancy with two tries each, the women soundly defeated the Cayman Islands 34-0.  The very experienced and tough Atlanta Harlequins gave us a hard time as expected, but we emerged 15-5 winners with tries by Meganne, Ida and Flicka.

Flicka turns corner on
          Barbados
Flicka turns corner and scores against Cayman Islands (Photo by Judy Teasdale)

We got in a few good minutes against the Maple Leafs, but with Ida Bernstein yellow-carded for a high tackle in the middle of the first half with the score 5-5, the gates opened.  They scored two tries while we were 6 on 7 and we never threatened after that, losing 5-24.

Semifinal.  Our big result of the weekend was the Atlantis women’s 19-12 upset win over Rugby Ecosse. It began with Ida Bernstein making a big run down the left sideline and stiff-arming one of Ecosse’s Scottish internationals, a player that had impressed all weekend.  Later Lauren Rhode pop-kicked over the Ecosse defense near the Ecosse goal line. Here’s how it went down:

Atlantis Coaches: “No! No! NOOO! … What the … ?”
Lauren fields her own kick at the Ecosse goal line and scores.
Atlantis Coaches: “YES!”
Atlantis coaches look at each other, shrug and smile.

Finally, Amy Naber stole a ball Ecosse had won at a ruck and fed Ida for the third and what turned out to be the winning try. Lauren made 2 of 3 conversions. It was a very nice 19-12 win. 



Ida scores vs. Ecosse
Ida scores winning try vs. Ecosse in Semifinal (Photo by Adam Dick)

Although since 1986 there are a few holes in the data, the best I can figure this was the 1000th game in Atlantis’ history and it was a nice way to celebrate it. (Coming in our next tournament should be Atlantis’ 700th win.)

Final.  The final wasn’t much of a contest.  The tournament gave the finalists the option of playing 7-minute halves instead of the standard 10 for finals; although both men’s teams opted to accept that, as did we, the Maple Leafs refused and we faced a 20-minute final.  The Canadians were firing on all cylinders and what would have been at least a respectable score in a standard 14-minute game (it was 26-7 with 16 minutes gone) turned into a 52-12 win for the Maple Leafs.

But … just for making the final we got a very nice trophy and prize.

And to repeat - the Maple Leafs were no slouches. With half a team of contracted Canadian players, and the rest Canada U-20s, a lot of them could be representing Canada in the Olympics.  And as of November 27, 2013, according to a French site, Canada was the second ranked women's team in the world (see http://les-archives-de-serge.over-blog.com/pages/RUGBY_A_VII_FEMININ-8131036.html).



Atlantis & Maple
          Leafs following the final
Atlantis & Maple Leafs following final

Men's game 4 vs. Rainbow: Atlantis' 4 tries
Men's game 5 vs. Dog River Howlers: Atlantis' try
Men's game 6 vs. Northern: Atlantis' 4 tries
Men's game 7 vs. Esher (UK): Atlantis' try

Women's game 4 vs. Cayman Islands: Atlantis' 6 tries
Women's game 5 vs. Maple Leafs: Atlantis' try
Women's game 6 vs. Atlanta Harlequins: Atlantis' 3 tries
Women's game 7 vs. Rugby Ecosse: Atlantis' 3 tries
Women's game 8 vs. Maple Leafs: Atlantis' try


Pictures of each member of the playing squad on game days may be found here.


Rosalie lifts our trophy 
Rosalie lifting trophy in Crown Point on Monday

Extra Time

Rookie Show & Tournament Party

As usual, Atlantis featured a rookie show, a performance by all those participating in their first Atlantis venture. The rookies provided hilarity with the usual rookie spoof of the veterans. Biting but loveable.  And – of course – one final fine session before heading to the tournament party, of which I have no reports.

Following rookie show
Rookies following a stellar performance

Monday

The majority of the team jumped on a 1:45 AM flight following the party and spent the next few hours in the Port of Spain airport waiting for an 8:15 flight.  There’s got to be a better way to organize these logistics!

A few of us went back to Trinidad Monday, stopping for a beer at Smokey and Buntys and some food in the St. James neighborhood of Port of Spain. This had been a regular part of the adventure when the tournament was in Trinidad. (The Roti vendor, however, wasn’t there and I was disappointed.)

Touring Tobago

Perhaps the wisest travelers were those that came a day early and/or left a day late; they found so many things to do!! (I came a day earlier but spent the day hanging out with old friends and meeting several flights of our tour party.)

Marcus Respes, Lori Gerber, Sarah Sall, Rosalie MacGowan and Phil Bolton were among those spending the day prior to the official tour start exploring Tobago.  Lori describes some of their trip:

“The only way to see the beauty of Tobago is to just start exploring the wilderness roads on scooters and the white sand beaches via bare back horse back riding with our Atlantis Family.  We swam on our horses in the crystal clear water like a scene out of a movie.  We rode on our little scooters around the entire island, snorkeling abandoned beaches, meeting local friends, finding little slices of heaven in mudslides and mojitos, getting flat tires and finding out that you really can ride three people on a scooter at the same time!  Our adventure culminated at a gorgeous Atlantic side hotel, meeting one of the figureheads responsible for bringing rugby to Tobago!  A fitting end and another adventure down for our ‘Atlantis Family’"!



Sunset from ferry to
          Tobago
Sunset on Ferry to Tobago, 12/3/2013
 

On horses in water
Sarah, Rosalie, Marcus, Lori (R to L) ride just off beach, 12/4/2013
Click image to see them riding


Rosalie shows off
Lori and Marcus watch Rosalie perform, 12/4/2013

Phil had his own parallel adventure.  He rented a jeep and somehow got it into deepest rainforest and could drive no more.  Wandering on foot, he found himself  “alone … in the middle of an unknown place… surrounded by loud noises that I had never heard.”  He got back to the jeep, found an abandoned hotel, and … out of the blue … was surprised by Marcus, Lori, Rosalie and Sarah.

Several spent the day after the tournament wandering about Tobago on scooters and tripping over unexpected sights such as the cemetery pictured below, which Phil describes as “straight out of a Tim Burton movie.”



"Tim Burton"
          cemetery
Hillside Tobago Cemetery


Explorers (Hogs) 
The “Hog Crew” off their scooters at yet another beach

I was part of a small group that went to Port of Spain, to wander a bit in the St. James area and visit Smokey and Buntys and environs, a hangout during the years the tournament was in Trinidad.

Most of those that didn’t leave Sunday night met up at the POS airport very early Tuesday morning and headed to our various destinations via Houston or Miami. These trips home are always painfully long but we always forget that part of the tour quickly enough to remember the fun parts. It’ll be cold for the next 3+ months, but we’ll have these nice warm memories to look back on.


Scoring Recap

Atlantis Men
Atlantis Women
Type
W/L
PF
Opponent
PA
Type
W/L
PF
Opponent
PA
Pool 1:
W
45
Invictus
0
Pool 1:
W
12
Samurai Beavers A
5

W
29
Carib
0

W
24
Barbados
0

W
32
Royalians
0



[forfeit over Guyana U]

Pool 2:
W
22
Rainbow
10
Pool 2:
W
34
Cayman Islands
0

L
7
Dog River Howlers
12

L
5
Maple Leafs
24

W
24
Northern
14

W
15
Atlanta Harlequins
5
Semifinal
L
7
Esher (UK)
31
Semifinal
W
19
Rugby Ecosse
12






L
12
Maple Leafs
52


166
Total
67


121
Total
98

 
Atlantis Men
T
C
Pts
Atlantis Women
T
C
Pts
Chris Mattina
5
2
29
Ida Bernstein
7
0
35
Jeff Reuther
2
7
24
Lauren Rhode
3
8
31
Matt Radzavich
4
0
20
Amy Naber
3
0
15
Tim Moxness
3
1
17 Ashley Clancy
3
0
15
Zack Stryffeler
3
1
17
Meganne Atkins
2
0
10
Phil Bolton
2
1
12
Rosalie MacGowan
1
0
5
Jake Feury
2
1
12
Amy Daniels
1
0
5
Matt Hughston
2
0
10
Farrah Douglas
1
0
5
Walt Elder
2
0
10




Marcus Respes
1
0
5




Kenny Scott
1
0
5




Glen Thommes
1
0
5




Total Atlantis
28
13
166
Total Atlantis
21
8
121
Total Opponents
11
6
67
Total Opponents
16
9
98









 


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