The fifth and final tournament in the LIME summer sevens series was played on Saturday with some truly exhilarating Rugby all around. The X107.1 National women’s team won both of their matches against a very tough Eagle Rays and Sharks side who fought to the last despite injury woes. The women now set their sights on Mexico and the NACRA regional tournament against Jamaica, Trinidad, Mexico, Guyana, St Lucia and the Bahamas.

In the social division, CML Ama Tsotsi amassed 68 points as they won all three of their matches to finish all five tournaments without a loss against RE/MAX Knackers, Maples and the Caybrew Clydesdales. The Clydesdales came in second with Maples in third.

In the premier division, Coach Adams selected nine players from the Maples Academy team to represent Cayman in Mexico and played the nine in the LIME/Maples seven. Mike Wilson was ill and unavailable; Josh and Joel Clark are joining the team in Mexico from university in the UK, along with Robbie Cribb at college in the USA.

In the first game against the BPC Buccaneers, the LIME/Maples team showed just how much they have improved, running in seven tries and winning the match 43 to 10.

The second match was somewhat tougher against the Butterfield O’Neill Wolfhounds, in which the LIME/Maples side defended for much of the game. The team did well to score ten points and keep the Wolfhounds out. In the final match of the tournament the LIME/Maples side won 22 -12 against the BPC Buccaneers to take the Estella Scott-Roberts Trophy for the first time, presented by LIME CEO Anthony Ritch.

Coach Adams was happy with the teams progress so far “the players and team are definitely improving each week and almost from game to game.”

He said the Maples Academy has been invaluable for the past few years and the programme has taken on a new format this year where they are really starting to streamline the sevens players into the sevens game as specialists rather than both fifteens and sevens players.

“We now train a minimum of three days per week and regardless of what happens in Mexico, the Maples Academy program will continue to ramp up the preparation of these players for the rest of the year, and through next year, as we fix the Olympics in 2016 squarely in our sights.” said Mr Adams.

“The LIME summer sevens series now in its fifth year has made a massive difference to our national sevens programme and LIME’s continued support in these very difficult time has been invaluable. Without doubt the reason Cayman has moved from eleventh to fourth in the region to a point where we are aiming to compete for the title in 2009 is in no small way due to the sponsorship of LIME and the Maples National Sevens Academy.

In years past, the LIME/Maples side has been finishing in third or fourth place in the premier division as we have developed the players and program, this year the side won 13 of fifteen matches, won all five finals and scored three hundred and sixteen points while conceding only one hundred and sixty five; that’s an average of four tries per game, which is pretty impressive against the local sides here and with a squad of only nine players.

“We are still a new team and we also have lots of work ahead of us. I really hope that we can keep these guys together over the next 24 to 36 months as well as adding as many again from the U19 and U20’s teams of 2009. If we can continue to be funded and work even harder then we have a very full future in sevens rugby,” said Mr Adams.

The full LIME National team will represent the Cayman Islands in the North American Caribbean Rugby Association sevens - which also serves as a qualifier for the World Sevens Series in Las Vegas - the CACSO games in Guyana and the Commonwealth games in India