A lot of rugby happened throughout Asia this past weekend with some highlights being the Asia Rugby Men’s Championships wrapping up, the Japan Top League Cup completed its 2nd round and more 7s results from Sri Lanka! We review all the Asian rugby results from the 29-30 June 2019.
Asia Rugby Championship 2019
ARMC
Hong Kong ARMC champions 2019
Hong Kong successfully completed its clean sweep of the Asia Rugby Men’s Championship (ARMC) for a 2nd year, albeit again in the absence of Japan. HK comfortably beat Korea 64 – 3 at home and only needed a single Championship point in the game to win the title but romped to a bonus point victory to finish on top of Korea and Malaysia.
HK captain Liam Slatem told Asia Rugby “We are ecstatic, we said before we started we wanted to go back-to-back, so we are really happy. We put in a lot of hard work over the past six weeks and happy it paid off. We’ll keep growing as a group, we have our full-time programme now that will continue. We then go into club season, we’ll come together around November and hopefully play in a couple of internationals.”
- Hong Kong 64-3 Korea
Asia Rugby Men’s Championship Division3 ES
India beat Indonesia 42-12 to claim the second spot in the Division after China had thrashed both teams to already claim the title in Jakarta.
- India 42-12 Indonesia
Japan Top League Cup
The Japanese Top League Cup completed round #2. All results and the schedule are on the Top League Cup website.
Toyota Verblitz
The already withdrawn Toyota Verblitz had another week to forget as a second player was arrested for drugs charges. Last week the club pulled out of the tournament in the wake of the news that Ryota Kabashima was arrested on drug possession charges.
- NEC 7-5 Ricoh
- Panasonic 55-14 Shimizu
- Kamaishi 7-39 Kubota
- Hino 40-12 Kurita
- Toyota Canon (Verblitz forfeit game)
- Yamaha 21-24 Toshiba
- Kobe Steel 38-12 Toyota Shokki
- Kyuden 5-45 NTT Docomo
- Sanix 6-57 NTT Comms
- Kintetsu 50-10 Mazda
- Honda 3-40 Suntory
- Coca-Cola 25-24 Mitsubishi
InterDialog 7s: Sri Lanka
Kandy Sports Club 7’s rugby team won the Dialog Inter Club Rugby 7’s 2019 by beating CR&FC 24-12 in the Cup final in Sri Lanka.
The full results can be found online here.
- Shield Final: Malay CC 0-24 Air Force SC “B”
- Bowl Final: Army SC “B” 7-12 Police SC “B”
- Plate Final: Air Force SC “A” 19-24 Navy SC “A”
- Cup Final: Kandy SC 24-12 CR&FC
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