PRP Awards Time!

PRP Awards Time!

FloRugby gives out some awards after a brilliant Pacific Rugby Premiership season.

May 10, 2018 by Alex Goff
PRP Story Of The 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


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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