by thepom02 | May 8, 2017 | News, Rugby
With the Spring 15’s season coming to a close after a successful run to the Midwest semi-final, we are starting to gear up for the 7’s over the summer months.
7’s training will begin on May 16th and continue every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 pm. The location is Belmont Harbour just south of the Trapeze School.
This is available to both current players and anyone new to the club or those players who may be back in Chicago for the summer. Depending on availability, we typically enter teams in most of the Midwest tournaments and will often have two sides if the interest is such.
Please contact Nate Brady for more details.
by thepom02 | Aug 3, 2016 | News, Rugby
A successful summer for Park’s 7s team.
Drinkin’ Park Closes Out Summer with Three Tournament Wins
Drinkin’ Park, the 7s affiliate of Lincoln Park RFC, has just finished off its 2016 summer season, participating in five separate tournaments and coming home with three tournament victories.
Drinkin’ Park got off to a fast start by winning its first tournament of the season. On June 11 at Jailbreak 7s in Joliet, Illinois, Park went undefeated on the day, ultimately edging out the Iowa Select Sevens side in a close-fought championship match in blistering heat, largely thanks to some newly implemented structure and strategy on both offense and defense.
A week later, Drinkin’ Park kept the momentum going at the Highland Games in Itasca, again rolling through pool play undefeated before finally taking home the hardware by way of a Krakens forfeit. Lincoln Park’s more “robust” Eatin’ Park side also competed in the tournament, although its results did not properly reflect the valiant effort, superior showmanship, entertaining style of play, and attempted drop-goals for which Eatin’ Park is so widely known.
At Shipwreck 7s at Chicago’s Schiller Woods the following week, Park made its way into the knockout round, but fell short to the Chicago Frogs in the semifinals, unable to find the offensive organization and defensive structure that had served it so well in the prior two tourneys.
However, Drinkin’ Park would regain form two weeks later in Cleveland’s Rock n’ Roll 7s, despite the team’s forwards operating on a combined 3-4 hours of sleep. Park went undefeated in pool play, won its semifinal match, and defeated Ohio University to win the tournament’s social bracket.
The sevens season was closed out in Grand Rapids, at Rock Hard 7s. Drinkin’ Park was unable to escape pool play, hampered in part by some untimely injuries leading up to the tournament, but the squad of eight that was able to make the trip certainly left it all on the pitch, after which they returned home to celebrate a successful 7s season.
All in all, the club is very pleased with Drinkin’ Park’s summer. We would like to thank everyone who played in a tournament, came out to support, or got a run in with us at one of our Tuesday/Thursday sessions, and after a short break, we’ll see you at 15s in the fall!
by thepom02 | Jun 21, 2015 | News, Rugby
After losing the previous year’s final, Park returned to Itasca, home of the Illinois St. Andrew’s Society Highland Games and this year took home the trophy.
Placed in a pool with the Dragons, Lawyers and Woodsmen, Park started the day with a comfortable if not imposing win against the Dragons before following up with a rather more impressive victory against the Chicago Lawyers.
With both teams winning their opening two games, the pool decider was a close fought affair against the Woodsmen with both teams trading scores in the early stages before Park pulled away in the closing minutes.
In Pool B, the Chicago Riot finished ahead of the other pool members beating Eatin’ Park (Park’s larger bodied players), Chicago Japanese and finally NW Indiana in a tight match.
Possibly the highlight of the Pool was Waryjas converting a drop goal after receiving a long cut-out pass from Koss only to see his celebrations cut short by a penalty called to his own team and his inability to remove his jersey.
In the final, Park and the Riot traded scores in the first half and then again early in the second. Park finally took a lead they did not relinquish late in the match but had to hold on with 6 players due to a sin-bin in the final minute.
by thepom02 | May 17, 2015 | News, Rugby
With the 15’s season now over for the summer, Park will be transitioning to 7’s.
This coming Thursday (May 21st) we will start with a very informal touch rugby session before starting our more formal practices every Tuesday and Thursday from May 26th.
The venue for these sessions will be just south of the Trapeze school at Belmont and Lake Shore Drive, just east of the Belmont Harbour parking lot. Training will start at 7pm.
