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Captain Olivia Apps reached the 300-point plateau successful HSBC SVNS play portion Taylor Perry scored her archetypal effort successful World Rugby's elite sevens bid arsenic Canada opened play astatine the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens with a triumph and a nonaccomplishment Friday.
6th-ranked Canadians unfastened with triumph implicit No. 5 Japan earlier falling to No. 2 Australia
Neil Davidson · The Canadian Press
· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 8:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago
Captain Olivia Apps reached the 300-point plateau successful HSBC SVNS play portion Taylor Perry scored her archetypal effort successful World Rugby's elite sevens bid arsenic Canada opened play astatine the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens with a triumph and a nonaccomplishment Friday.
Canada opened with a 24-17 triumph implicit No. 5 Japan earlier dropping a 26-15 determination to No. 2 Australia. It volition wrapper up Pool C play against No. 12 Spain.
The Hong Kong lawsuit is being held astatine the caller Kai Tak Stadium.
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—@RugbyCanadaThe Canadian women basal sixth successful the wide standings aft finishing eighth successful Dubai, 5th successful Cape Town, 4th successful Perth and seventh past period successful Vancouver. New Zealand tops the table, winning successful Cape Town and Vancouver and finishing runner-up to Australia successful Dubai and Perth, Australia.
Hong Kong marks Perry's archetypal enactment for the sevens broadside since winning metallic astatine past summer's Paris Olympics. Perry has been playing 15s rugby successful England with the Exeter Chiefs.
Apps, who arrived successful Hong Kong connected 296 points successful HSBC SVNS play, is captaining the broadside successful the lack of the injured Piper Logan.
Following Hong Kong, the circuit shifts to Singapore for the penultimate lawsuit of the play April 5-6. The apical 8 men's and women's teams volition past vie successful the May 3-4 season-ending satellite title astatine Dignity Health Sports Park successful Carson, Calif.
The California finale volition besides diagnostic a promotion/relegation playoff involving the apical 4 men's and women's teams from the second-tier HSBC Sevens Challenger and the bottommost 4 teams connected the HSBC SVNS circuit.
The Canadian men, relegated past June, are acceptable to instrumentality portion successful the last Challenger Series lawsuit April 11-12 successful Krakow, Poland.
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