{"id":25262,"date":"2025-01-06T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25262"},"modified":"2025-01-06T18:55:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:55:59","slug":"guyana-suffers-early-setbacks-at-ran-sevens-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-suffers-early-setbacks-at-ran-sevens-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Suffers Early Setbacks at RAN Sevens Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Travis Seymour<\/em><br><em>November 23, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s national rugby team faced a challenging start at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens Championship in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competing in the Tier 1 bracket, the team suffered a 29-0 defeat against Canada on Friday, followed by a 21-10 loss to Barbados on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the losses, the Guyanese team showcased moments of brilliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lionel Holder and Godfrey Pollydore managed two spectacular runs, scoring Guyana&#8217;s first tries of the tournament against Barbados. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, costly fumbles prevented them from securing a victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team, led by captain Godfrey Broomes and vice-captain Lionel Holder, also includes Rickford Cummings, Shawn David, Renaldo Niles, Yannick Williams, Tyreese Prescod, Valon Adams, Matthew Talbot, and Godfrey Pollydore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former national player Claudius Butts is coaching the squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With matches against Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Mexico, and host Trinidad and Tobago still to come on Sunday, Guyana will look to improve their standings in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s RAN Sevens features 18 teams divided into Tier 1 and Tier 2 categories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tier 1 men\u2019s champion will secure a spot in the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger Series in 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the top two Tier 1 teams\u2014excluding pre-qualified Canada\u2014will earn a place in the Sevens competition at the 2025 Junior Pan American Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Travis SeymourNovember 23, 2024 Guyana&#8217;s national rugby team faced a challenging start at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens Championship in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. Competing in the Tier&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25263,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions\/25263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}