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Erick Elefante is PRFU's Regional Representative for Australia and Asia Pacific Region
Philippine Rugby juniors sweep Asian U20s
The Philippine U20s Rugby Union team made a clean sweep of the Asian u20s Division 2 Championships in Vientiane Laos this week. The Philippines played four games of Rugby Union in five days at the 2009 South East Asian Games stadium and were able to defeat India 38–7, Kazakhstan 22–10, Laos 52–0 and Iran 12–8 [...]
The lead changed several times in the first half with both teams scoring great tries and trading penalty goals. A converted try late in the half gave the Volcanoes some breathing space as they went into the break with a 29-16 lead [...]
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With players coming from all over the world and with only a one and a half hour training run as a full team the Saturday of the tournament, the Philippines Rugby Football Union (PRFU) National Rugby 7s team Runners up result at the Brunei Rugby 7s [...]
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For the last nine weeks, 22 Filipino-heritage rugby league and union players have been training in Sydney for the Brunei and Borneo Rugby 7s tournaments on October 24-25 and October 31 – November 1 respectively. With injuries, work and study commitments to key players from the Silver medal 2007 South East Asian games Rugby 7s [...]
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The Philippine Rugby Union Men’s teams were able to secure the Asian Five Nations Division 3 Trophy by defeating both Iran and Guam at the Nomads Sports Club during the first week of July. This victory has now won the Philippines the right to be promoted to the A5N Division 2 championships in 2010 [...]
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“We traveled for 5 hours to get here only to be beaten by a bunch of Filipinos” jibed a Grenfell RUFC Rugby player as he contemplated losing 31-5 to the Sons of Lapu Lapu rugby team. This may have been similar words uttered by Magellan as he confronted Lapu Lapu on the beaches of Cebu and it certainly were the words from the Grenfell rugby team dealing [...]
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