PRP Awards Time!
PRP Awards Time!
FloRugby gives out some awards after a brilliant Pacific Rugby Premiership season.
With the USA Rugby men's club championships ahead and the PRP in the books, it's time for some awards.
The first award probably goes to the league. This competition fit the bill better than any league in the nation. Every team was good. Every team showed it had the ability to win at any time. No one dominated.
This isn't the case in D1 club leagues around the nation. There's usually at least one team in real trouble. But in the Pacific Rugby Premiership, we saw high-quality, and relative parity.
See On-Demand games, highlights, results, and stats, here.
Consider:
Five close-loss bonus points earned
15 out of 33 games within 14 points
No team undefeated
No team winless
In 33 games, teams earned a four-try bonus point 39 times
So the league works. The league is fun to watch. The league produces good rugby.
So ... on to the awards. One team kind of dominates our awards, and that's partly because all those little pieces of the puzzle that make a championship just seemed to fall in Belmont Shore's favor.
MVP and Top Back: Viliame Iongi, Fullback, Belmont Shore
Top Forward: Jed Gillespie, Prop, OMBAC
16th Man Award for the Best Super Sub: Robert Newcomb, Flanker, Lock, other stuff, Belmont Shore
Play Of The Year: Maze Masoe scores in Week 1 to secure victory over SFGG - that try doesn’t happen, Belmont Shore misses the final.
Top Scorer (Regular Season): Michael Dillon, OMBAC, 111
Most Tries (Regular Season): Viliame Iongi, Belmont Shore, 15
Most Tries by a Forward (Regular Season): Tai Tuisamoa, OMBAC, 12
Player Recognition
And finally, FloRugby decided to produce a sort of PRP Honor Roll. There are the top four players on each team:
Belmont Shore
Village Iongi, Fullback
Keni Nasoqeqe, No. 8/Lock
Daniel Thomas, Scrumhalf
Ben Weischedel, Flanker
Life West
Zach Bonte, Flanker/Lock
Devereaux Ferris, Scrumhalf
Huluholo Moungaloa, Prop/Hooker
Calvin Nell, Center, and pretty much everywhere else in the backline
Olympic Club
Drew Gaffney, No. 8
Michael Haley, Center
Dustin Muhn, Fullback
Josh Tucker, Center/Wing/Fullback
OMBAC
Jed Gillespie, Prop
Charlie Purdon, Scrumhalf
Tim Stanfill, Wing
Tai Tuisamoa, Lock
Santa Monica
Robert Cleere, Prop
Shawn Lee, Flyhalf/Center
Quinn Perry, Fullback
Victor Woo, Scrumhalf
SFGG
Brendan Daly, Lock
Nathan Sylvia, Prop
Lemon Filikitonga, Center
Aquila Uiaiselele, No. 8
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