Three Trinidad and Tobago rugby stars have been selected on the West Indies Sevens team for the International Rugby Board’s World Sevens Series which will be held in San Diego, USA in February.


Three Quarters/Backs Andre Cabrera, Kelson Figaro and United Kingdom-born Bevon Armitage were all expected to assemble with the team in neighbouring Barbados yesterday for a one-week camp in Bridgetown.

Barbadian Kurt Johnson, who is also based in the United Kingdom was expected to join the team yesterday.


Manager of the team is Curtis Nero of TT. The tournament is scheduled for February 9-10 and some of the world’s top rugby nations will be in action.


Meanwhile the Trinidad and Tobago national 15 team will continue its preparations for the upcoming Rugby World Cup qualifiers in April in the Cayman Islands.


Source: Newsday

Winger Kurt Johnson joined an exclusive group of Coventry players when he scored his 100th try for the club in Saturday's 43-16 victory over derby rivals Moseley.


The Barbados international, one of only four players to have reached 100 league tries in senior rugby, became the 13th player in Cov's 133-year history to hit the century mark and the first since Graham Robbins in 1985.


"It's nice to get there," said 30-year-old Johnson, who went in for the third of Coventry's six tries at the Butts Park Arena. "Landmarks are important to me and drive me on as a player.

"Now I want to get to 100 league tries for Coventry - I'm on 93, so hopefully I can do it this season.
"If I'm playing well and scoring tries, especially on the wing, it means that Coventry are winning matches."


Coventry were 10-0 down after 45 minutes, but came back to lead 15-13 at half-time before pulling clear.

Coventry winger Kurt Johnson achieved one career landmark last Saturday when he scored his 100th league try and he has now set his sights on another, making his first appearance at Twickenham.


The Barbados international became only the fourth player in National League history to make the ton, when he crossed two minutes after coming on as a tenth minute blood replacement in the National League One defeat by Bedford Blues.


Johnson, who was given a standing ovation by the Coventry faithful, followed Nick Baxter (Worcester, Pertemps Bees and Stourbridge), Eddie Saunders (Rugby Lions) and Dave Scully, Doncaster's former Wakefield, Rotherham and Otley scrum-half, into the record books.

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