{"id":583930,"date":"2026-04-04T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583930\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:38:10","slug":"womens-rugby-opens-competition-at-tropical-7s-with-pool-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583930\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Rugby Opens Competition at Tropical 7s with Pool Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     TAMPA, Fla. \u2013 Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/cameron-fields\/31072\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31072\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Fields<\/a> tallied a team-high five tries on the day, and the Crimson&#8217;s elite team posted a 2-1 record with a pair of shutout wins as Harvard University women&#8217;s rugby opened competition on day one of Tropical 7s on Friday at the Tournament SportsPlex of Tampa.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCompeting in its first event of the 7s season, the Crimson&#8217;s elite team notched wins over Army West Point (31-0) and Penn State (52-0) alongside a narrow setback to Trinity Western (24-12). Harvard&#8217;s open team earned a shutout win over Kennesaw State (33-0) alongside setbacks against SARC Sharks (15-5) and Canadian Misfits (43-0).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHarvard concludes competition at Tropical 7s tomorrow \u2013 Saturday, Apr. 4 \u2013 with the playoffs segment of the tournament.<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s Elite: Day One Highlights<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Crimson posted a 2-1 record on the day, notching shutout wins over Army West Point (31-0) and Penn State (52-0) before dropping a narrow 24-12 decision to Trinity Western.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/cameron-fields\/31072\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31072\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Fields<\/a> led the Crimson with five tries on the day while <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/skylar-jordan\/31078\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31078\" target=\"_blank\">Skylar Jordan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/sana-a-lunon\/31151\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31151\" target=\"_blank\">Sana&#8217;a Lunon<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/josephine-mignone\/31082\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31082\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Mignone<\/a> each tallied two tries apiece. <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/madelyn-hubbell\/31153\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31153\" target=\"_blank\">Madelyn Hubbell<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/lennox-london\/31079\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31079\" target=\"_blank\">Lennox London<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/gemma-ogoke\/31150\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31150\" target=\"_blank\">Gemma Ogoke<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/victoria-stanley\/31088\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31088\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Stanley<\/a> each added one try.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn its opening matchup with Army, Jordan, Lunon, and Stanley all scored tries in the first half as Harvard jumped out to a 17-0 lead. Mignone and Ogoke registered tries in the second half to complete the 31-0 win.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn game two against Penn State, the Crimson claimed a 26-0 lead at halftime behind a trio of tries from Fields alongside a try from London. Tries from Hubbell, Jordan, Mignone, and Lunon rounded out the scoring in the second half.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn a tight matchup with Trinity Western, back-to-back tries from Fields brought Harvard within 19-12 before Trinity Western held on for the victory.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Gallery: (4-3-2026) Women&#8217;s Rugby at Tropical 7s <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s Open: Day One Highlights<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFor the open team, <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/evie-eyers\/31156\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31156\" target=\"_blank\">Evie Eyers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/morgan-gibson\/31900\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31900\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Gibson<\/a> each recorded two tries while <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/nellie-fitzpatrick\/31423\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31423\" target=\"_blank\">Nellie Fitzpatrick<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gocrimson.com\/sports\/womens-rugby\/roster\/courtney-taylor\/31089\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"31089\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Taylor<\/a> each contributed one try.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Crimson posted a 1-2 record on the day with a victory over Kennesaw State (33-0) alongside setbacks to SARC Sharks (15-5) and the Canadian Misfits (43-0).&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn the team&#8217;s opener against SARC, Taylor scored the first half&#8217;s only try to stake Harvard to a 5-0 lead before the Sharks tallied three tries in the second half.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Crimson earned a shutout win against Kennesaw State in its second game with Gibson and Eyers each scoring two tries before Fitzpatrick tallied the contest&#8217;s final try. Eyers added four conversions in the game.\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Next Up<br \/>\nHarvard concludes competition at Tropical 7s tomorrow \u2013 Saturday, Apr. 4 \u2013 with the playoffs segment of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; TAMPA, Fla. \u2013 Senior Cameron Fields tallied a team-high five tries on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-583930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}