Pock 7s Returns with a Bang in 2022

The Pock 7s was back to its best on Good Friday as Yorkshire's oldest and biggest sevens tournament saw a record crowd bask in the sunshine and enjoy a full day of high speed rugby culminating in a cliffhanger final.

After a two year hiatus, the 62nd John Smiths Pock 7s got underway at 10.30 in the morning with a womens sevens curtain raiser competition. The men followed on at 1.00 pm and the rugby ebbed and flowed right through to 7.00 pm in the evening when the day's two best sides provided an entertaining finale. It was a triumphant home coming for former Pocklington School and Pocklington RUFC junior, Elliot Adamson, as his Jungle 7s Tropics invitation side overcame the International Penguins, the world's most travelled rugby team, 17-14.

The Tropics, a team of mates from London and Leeds and Newcastle who are running their own sevens tournament in Leeds in June, were making their Pock 7s debut, and their reward was to be presented with the Fowler Trophy by the Rugby Football Union's CEO, Bill Sweeney.

Though the Tropics and Penguins deserved to meet in the final, they were both pushed all the way in their respective semis — the Penguins having to pull out the stops to beat Malton & Norton, the top club side in the tournament, 21-12, and the Tropics having a similar battle in overcoming Northern Exiles, a team of former Newcastle students.

In the Plate Competition Hull Ionians beat York Saints 45-0. The women's competition saw Wetherby beat Malton & Norton 25-5 to lift the cup.

Results

Main Competition Final

Penguins International 14 — Jungle 7s Tropics 17

Plate Final

Hull Ionians 45 — York Saints 0

Womens Final

Wetherby 25 — Malton & Norton 5