2021 – RD 1: Houston SaberCats v Seattle Seawolves

30 v 24

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The Houston SaberCats get their 2021 season off to a fantastic start, hosting the back-to-back champion Seattle Seawolves at AVEVA Stadium, and emerging victorious.

A scoreline of 30-24 meant that the Seawolves still took away a bonus point from this game, but it was the Cats that took the lion’s share of the points. Two of Houston’s 3 tries were directly under the posts, with captain Zach Pangelinan scoring the first 7pt try in franchise history in the 35th minute, followed by Paula Balekana in the 55th minute.

Details

Date	Time	League	Season
March 20, 2021	7:00 pm	Major League Rugby	MLR 2021

Results

Team	Tries	Conversions	Penalty Kick	TB	LB	Points
SaberCats	3	1/1	3/4	0	0	30
Seawolves	3	3/3	1/1	0	1	24

SaberCats

#	Player	Position	T	C	P	MG	Tackles	KS/KA	Pts
1	Valdemar Lee-Lo 17	Prop	0	0	0	0	6	0	0
2	Diego Fortuny 16	Hooker	0	0	0	22	12	0	0
3	Charlie Connolly 18	Prop	0	0	0	0	8	0	0
4	Kody O’Neil	Lock	0	0	0	14	13	0	0
5	Van Stewart	Lock	0	0	0	13	10	0	0
6	Apisai Tauyavuca	Flanker	0	0	0	35	8	0	0
7	Cecil Garber 20	Flanker	0	0	0	21	15	0	0
8	Diego Magno	Flanker	0	0	0	49	13	0	0
9	Jinho Mun	Scrum-half	0	0	0	26	8	0	0
10	Sam Windsor	Fly-half	0	1	3	29	11	4/5	11
11	Zach Pangelinan 22	Fullback	1	1	0	125	2	0	7
12	Taylor Howden	Center	0	0	0	17	13	0	0
13	Veramu Dikidikilati	Center	0	0	0	24	13	0	0
14	Paula Balekana	Wing	1	1	0	94	8	0	7
15	Matías Freyre	Fullback	1	0	0	109	4	0	5
16	Tiaan Erasmus 2	Hooker	0	0	0	6	1	0	0
17	Nicolás Solveyra 1	Prop	0	0	0	17	4	0	0
18	Nikoloz Khatiashvili 3	Prop	0	0	0	25	2	0	0
19	Bronson Teles	Flanker	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Adriaan Booysen 7	Number 8	0	0	0	39	2	0	0
21	Zachary Short	Scrum-half	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Kieran Farmer 11	Fly-half	0	0	0	6	2	0	0
23	Zack Godfrey	Wing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		3	3	3	671	155	4/5	30

Seawolves

#	Player	Position	T	C	P	MG	Tackles	KS/KA	Pts
1	Djustice Sears-Duru 16	Prop	0	0	0	19	4	0	0
2	Mike Shepherd 17	Hooker	0	0	0	52	10	0	0
3	Jake Ilnicki 18	Prop	0	0	0	22	13	0	0
4	Les Soloai 19	Lock	1	0	0	59	3	0	5
5	Rhyno Herbst	Lock	1	0	0	60	10	0	5
6	Brad Tucker 20	Flanker	0	0	0	71	3	0	0
7	Andrew Durutalo	Flanker	0	0	0	71	15	0	0
8	Riekert Hattingh	Number 8	0	0	0	104	10	0	0
9	JP Smith	Scrum-half	0	0	0	20	8	0	0
10	Ben Cima 22	Fly-half	0	1	0	10	2	1/1	2
11	Siti Tamaivena	Wing	0	0	0	138	4	0	0
12	George Barton 23	Center	0	0	0	90	5	0	0
13	Ross Neal	Center	1	0	0	102	6	0	5
14	Aaron Matthews 21	Wing	0	0	0	87	7	0	0
15	Mat Turner	Fullback	0	2	1	185	0	3/3	7
16	Kellen Gordon 1	Prop	0	0	0	2	7	0	0
17	Louie Henson 2	Hooker	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
18	Henry Hall 3	Prop	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
19	Eric Duechle 4	Flanker	0	0	0	2	9	0	0
20	Nakai Penny 6	Flanker	0	0	0	25	10	0	0
21	Devereaux Ferris 14	Scrum-half	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Shalom Suniula 10	Center	0	0	0	36	5	0	0
23	Kieran Joyce 12	Center	0	0	0	16	1	0	0
	Total		3	3	1	1171	135	4/4	24