GRR: Awards
With five Regional Cup Tournament all-star events this past weekend, there were plenty of impressive performances to make note of.
Kelly Fernandi, Prince William
The Virginia all-star flanker/lock was a big part of his team's victory in Pittsburgh, getting to just about every ruck, and generally making a nuisance of himself to opposing defenses.
We were warned. Representatives of the Virginia boys select team kept pointing it out, that Dmontae Noble had been the JV MVP of the Challenge Cup RCT two years i a row.
Watch out, they said, when he plays for the varsity team.
And so we watched, and there was Noble, torching team after team with his pace, acceleration, and field vision. MVP again, and no one complained,
When Boston College High School won the Massachusetts state championship, Terry Cullen had a lot to do with it.
The imposing No. 8 scored three of his team’s four tries in the state final, and that was pretty much a normal game for him.
A couple of weeks ago Goff Rugby Report named our College Player of the Year.
That was Kyle Sumsion, the captain and flanker for BYU. It meant we needed to name a Back of the Year, and this week that player gets his due.
We have documented the story of Royal Irish Rugby's difficulties in getting to the Boys HS National Championship final, their battle to win the game, and what they