Samurai Barracudas Win Harpenden

This saw the Samurai side finish top of the pile and draw the RAF in the quarter final.  The RAF had pushed both Susies Saloon and Maurauders in their pool games to finish as best runner up and qualify for the knock out stages!  By this time the Samurai Barracudas, under the guidance of England 7s coach Russell Earnshaw and New Zealander Eugene Martin, had really hit their stride and demolished the RAF side scoring sevens tries and without conceding a single point.  Unfortunately with the weather closing in the semi final was a much closer than expected affair against The Castaways with Warren Abrahams breaking the deadlock with a fantastic individual effort and then a well worked passage of play put Ben Gerry in for an excellent try to close out the game. 

At this point, with the weather conditions so bad and the pitch completely unplayable, the final was called off and the Harpenden Sevens 2008 trophy shared between the Samurai Barracudas and the White Hart Maurauders.

Samurai Barracudas; Ross Blake, Ben Gerry, Tuppa, Matt Vaughan, Warren Abrahams, Kyle Palm, Jon Holtby, Matt Cannon, Chris Malherbe, Russell Earnshaw, Eugene Martin, Sam Showering

Coaches; Russell Earnshaw (England) & Eugene Martin (Birmingham & Solihull Bees)

Manager: Mark Dean(Old Mids)