League: Major League Rugby

Founded in 2017 with it’s inaugural season played in 2018, Major League Rugby (MLR) is the highest level of professional rugby in North America.

2020 – RD 5: Seattle Seawolves v Utah Warriors

The Utah Warriors travel up to Starfire Stadium to face the back-to-back Major League Rugby Champs, the Seattle Seawolves.

The Seawolves held a 28-21 lead at the 75 minute mark before Stephan Coetzee was yellow carded, reducing Seattle to 14 men. Shortly afterwards, the ref awarded Utah a penalty try to bring the score to 28-28 with minutes to play. Seawolves points machine Brock Staller slotted a penalty in the 79th minute to give Seattle a 31-28 lead and surelysecuring the game.

The Warriors however, had other ideas. In a remarkable passage of play, Utah managed to score a game-winning try in the 88th minute of play to snatch the victory away from Seattle by a score of 31-33. This would turn out to be the last MLR game of the 2020 season for both sides, as the season would be postponed for 30 days on March 12, 2020, and then cancelled on March 19, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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2020 – RD 5: NOLA Gold v New England Free Jacks

NOLA Gold host the expansion Free Jacks at the Gold Mine, in what turned out to be the last MLR game of the 2020 season for both sides, as the season would be postponed for 30 days on March 12, 2020, and then cancelled on March 19, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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2020 – RD 5: Colorado Raptors v Toronto Arrows

The Toronto Arrows travel to Infinity Park with a 4-0 record on the season, to take on the Colorado Raptors.

The Raptors emerged victorious in an error-riddled game for both sides. Robbie Petzer nailed a 76th minute penalty to give the Raptors a narrow lead that they held on to for a 22-19 victory, handing the Arrows their first defeat of the 2020 Major League Rugby season.

This game turned out to be the last MLR game of the 2020 season for both sides, as the season would be postponed for 30 days on March 12, 2020, and then cancelled on March 19, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This game proved to be the last ever MLR game for the Raptors, who announced on April 9, 2020 that they would be pulling out of the competition effective May 2, 2020.

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2020 – RD 4: Seattle Seawolves v New England Free Jacks

The Free Jacks travel up to Washington State to face the Seawolves at Starfire stadium. Kick off for this game was delayed for roughly 30minues due to lightning in the area.

Once the game did get started, the home crowd was treated to a combined 10 tries, split evenly at 5 for each team. The game ended 44-29 to Seattle, with the difference being a flawless 8/8 performance from Seawolves fly-half Ben Cima. This gave the reigning champions their first win of the season, with their 2020 record improving to 1-3.

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2020 – RD 4: Colorado Raptors v Utah Warriors

The Colorado Raptors hold on to claim their first victory of the 2020 Major League Rugby season against the Utah Warriors at Infinity Park.

2 late converted scores from the Warriors was not enough to overcome the 22pt deficit that the Raptors had amassed throughout the game and a winning margin of 8pts means that Utah didn’t even come away with a losing BP.

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