By RENALDO DORSETT
Sports Reporter
rdorsett@tribunemedia.net
The rugby pitch will be active with international competition as the Bahamas faces a regional powerhouse with divisional promotion on the line.
The Bahamas Rugby Football Union will field a side to represent the country in a NACRA Rugby Division I promotional match against the USA South Panthers, 3pm Saturday at the Winton Rugby Centre.
The winning side will be promoted to the North Caribbean Zone Division I, while the losers will be relegated to the Zone’s Cup Pool.
The USA Rugby South is the Territorial Union (TU) for rugby union teams playing in the Southern United States. It is one of seven TU’s that govern specific regions of USA Rugby which also includes North Carolina, Georgia, Palmetto, Deep South, Florida and MidSouth.
USA South has been a mainstay in American rugby since its NACRA debut in 2013 when they emerged as regional champions. They continued their early success as a programme with a runners-up finish in 2014.
The success took a sudden turn for the worse this year as the Panthers have been 0-2 in 2015 and are at the bottom of the North Zone Championship pool.
It was April 2013 when the Bahamas last hosted a meeting between the two, when USA South won in a lopsided affair, 42-15.
Team Bahamas actually outscored USA South 15-12 in the second half, but it was hardly enough to overcome a 30-0 halftime deficit.
The Bahamas is a member of the Cup League which features eight teams in two divisions - North and South.
The North Cup League features the Bahamas, Bermuda and Turks and Caicos Islands.
The South Cup League includes the British Virgin Islands, Curacao, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
The winners in the Cup League will earn an opportunity to play their way into the Championship League by facing off against the third place side among the champions.
The League consists of two three-team divisions with Mexico, Cayman and the USA South making up the North, while Barbados, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago are in the South division.
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