WI roughed up in rugby sevens

On the second and final day at The Home Depot Centre, West Indies slumped to a 52-0 defeat to Samoa in the quarter-finals of the Bowl Competition, contested by losing teams that failed to advance— from Saturday’s group matches— to the Championship (Cup) Round.

West Indies had finished bottom of their Pool "C" schedule on Saturday after three heavy losses.

The Caribbean side had given a spirited effort for long periods against Australia before going down 33-0, and also lost to New Zealand (5-50), and Tonga (0-43).

England emerged Cup champions on Sunday when they defeated Fiji 38-5 in the final.

On the back of a strong start that saw David Strettle and Andrew Vilk power them to an early 14-0 lead, England kept control even though Timoci Volavola’s try cut the half-time deficit to 14-5.

England had earlier produced another superb display against South Africa in the semi-final when Andy Vilk scored a hat trick as they blitzed South Africa 40-0.

Fiji had beaten New Zealand in the other Cup semi-final, William Ryder scoring a sudden death extra time try for a 22-17 win.

Argentina recovered from a narrow loss to England in the Cup quarter-finals to beat France 21-5 in the Final of the Plate event.

In the Plate "semis", Argentina had beaten Australia 19-12 and France got past Canada 20-14.

In the Bowl play-offs, Scotland beat Samoa 26-21 and Tonga got past Uruguay 45-7 in the "semis" and Scotland clinched the Bowl title with a 26-21 triumph over Tonga.