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The TOLA series capped off it\u2019s finals at the Shreveport-Horseshoe TOLA 7s Aug. 8-9, 2009.\u00a0 Host club Shreveport won in overtime against a well-coached Little Rock Club.\u00a0 National women 7s coached, Julie McCoy had her boys playing great rugby but Hal Struckman and his Shreveport gang stood tall at the end and came away with the victory.<\/p>\n

Greg Varnell was in the middle with Wendy Young and Rich Prim assisting on the touch.\u00a0 Mr. Varnell did an excellent job.\u00a0 We had a good crew of match officials during the weekend; from the very new to the very, very old.\u00a0 Match officials included\u00a0 Chris Kelly, Traci Schmidtke, Wendy Young, Greg Varnell, Rich Prim and visiting referee from the deep south, Chris Piscotta.<\/p>\n

Congrats to a strong referee crew and kudos to a great job the Shreveport team provided as host on this very hot Aug. day.<\/p>\n

\"2009<\/a>
2009 TOLA Shreveport referees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Match officials included in photo above from l to r:\u00a0 Chris Kelly, Traci Schmidtke, Wendy Young, Greg Varnell, and Rich Prim.
\nOur visiting referee from the deep south, Chris Piscotta, was not available for the picture.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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