2023 – RD 18: San Diego Legion v Seattle Seawolves

40 v 19

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The Seattle Seawolves travel to California to face the league-leading San Diego Legion at Snapdragon Stadium during the final Round of the 2023 season.

With both sides already locked into the playoffs, the visiting Seawolves fielded a drastically different roster to finish their regular season, including the addition of a number of Seattle Rugby Club names. Clearly the mind games have begun, because the Seawolves rested almost all of their big names. The Legion seemed to rest a few names as well, but still fielded a very strong roster, perhaps because they know they have a bye to the Conference Finals in a couple of weeks.

A concern for the Legion will be the red card to Blair Cowan for a high tackle with direct contact to the head. The league-leaders could see their captain and one of their strongest tacklers issued with a ban that would suspend him for the entire Championship Series.

Details

Date	Time	League	Season
June 18, 2023	7:00 pm	Major League Rugby	MLR 2023

Results

Team	Tries	Conversions	Penalty Kick	TB	LB	Points
Legion	6	5	0	1	0	40
Seawolves	3	2	0	0	0	19

Legion

#	Player	Position	T	C	MG	Tackles	KS/KA	Pts
1	Nathan Sylvia 18	Prop	0	0	25	10	0	0
2	Sama Malolo 16	Hooker	0	0	78	10	0	0
3	Chris Baumann 17	Prop	0	0	22	2	0	0
4	Tom Franklin 19	Lock	0	0	25	12	0	0
5	Isaac Ross 20	Lock	0	0	23	4	0	0
6	Michael Smith	Flanker	0	0	70	14	0	0
7	Blair Cowan 21	Flanker	0	0	40	11	0	0
8	Finn Kearns	Flanker	1	0	17	23	0	5
9	Jason Higgins 23	Scrum-half	2	1	28	7	0	12
10	Josh Henderson	Fly-half	1	4	96	2	4/5	13
11	Mikey Te’o	Wing	1	0	78	7	0	5
12	Ma’a Nonu 22	Center	0	0	69	3	0	0
13	Filimone Waqainabete	Center	0	0	97	6	0	0
14	Ryan Matyas	Center	1	0	48	5	0	5
15	Alex Horan	Center	0	0	57	6	0	0
16	Shilo Klein 2	Hooker	0	0	45	5	0	0
17	Faka’osi Pifeleti 3	Hooker	0	0	0	2	0	0
18	Oliver Kane 1	Prop	0	0	0	1	0	0
19	Chris Turori 4	Flanker	0	0	0	4	0	0
20	Ben Grant 5	Lock	0	0	8	3	0	0
21	Christian Poidevin 7	Flanker	0	0	25	2	0	0
22	Nate Augspurger 12	Scrum-half	0	0	0	2	0	0
23	Will Hooley 9	Fly-half	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total		6	5	851	141	4/5	40

Seawolves

#	Player	Position	T	C	MG	Tackles	KS/KA	Pts
1	Dewald Donald 17	Prop	0	0	13	13	0	0
2	James Malcolm 16	Hooker	0	0	77	12	0	0
3	Mason Pedersen 18	Prop	0	0	9	8	0	0
4	Isaia Lotawa	Lock	0	0	24	8	0	0
5	Ben Mitchell	Lock	0	0	21	10	0	0
6	Adam Page 20	Flanker	0	0	12	15	0	0
7	Nakai Penny	Flanker	0	0	45	12	0	0
8	Ronan Foley 19	Number 8	0	0	64	8	0	0
9	Reid Watkins 21	Scrum-half	0	0	13	5	0	0
10	Devereaux Ferris 22	Fly-half	1	1	2	4	0/1	7
11	Jeremiah Sio	Wing	1	0	115	4	0	5
12	Lopeti Aisea 23	Center	1	0	119	8	0	5
13	David Busby	Center	0	0	42	14	0	0
14	Cole Zarcone	Wing	0	0	8	7	0	0
15	Shane Barry	Fly-half	0	0	83	4	0	0
16	Alexis Glover 2	Hooker	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Jake Turnbull 1	Prop	0	0	7	1	0	0
18	Taniela Tupou 3	Prop	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	Brandon Tupufia 8	Lock	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Jamie Demers 6	Flanker	0	0	30	3	0	0
21	Karl Keane 9	Scrum-half	0	1	2	1	1/1	2
22	Adriaan Carelse 10	Fly-half	0	0	0	1	0	0
23	Tavite Lopeti 12	Center	0	0	7	0	0	0
	Total		3	2	693	138	1/2	19