Trinidad and Tobago won the Caribbean Rugby Championship on Saturday to book their place in the next round of qualifying for Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand.
T&T beat Guyana 40-24 in the final in George Town, Grand Cayman to take local bragging rights for another year and, more importantly, progress to play the winner of South America's Consur B tournament in home and away fixtures later this year.

A second half hat trick of tries by number 8 and captain Adam Fredericks inspired T&T to the well deserved win over their neighbours in an exilharating final.

Underdogs Guyana were first to register a score in the match, centre Kevin McKenzie charging down Brenden O'Farrell's kick to run in unopposed for an early 5-0 advantage. But T&T quickly levelled through Kelson Figuero and Jason Clarke soon added a second, O'Farrell converting both for a 14-5 lead.

Charismatic centre Theodore Henry dummied his way through the T&T defence to hit back for Guyana but Felicion Guerra's try put T&T in the ascendency, 21-12 at half time.

Two quick tries after the break from captain Fredericks increased the lead to 35-12 and, although Guyana clawed their way back through Ronald Mayers after good work from Claudius Butts, Fredericks added his third after 66 minutes to make it 40-19. Theodore Henry crossed for his second shortly afterwards but it was too little too late for gallant Guyana.

Referee: Tony Spreadbury

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Janeen Isaacs has just informed me that ESPNI shows rugby matches.

If you have Basic Cable, that's Channel 31 and if you have Digital, its channel 734.
These are, of course, free channels.

I haven't checked it out yet, but will shortly.