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<strong>Selwyn</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Wednesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />

22<br />

SPORT<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Prebbleton, West Melton’s best<br />

players recognised with awards<br />

Eddie Sunia and Bradley Johns took out major awards at<br />

the Prebbleton and West Melton rugby clubs prize-givings<br />

at the weekend. Jaime Cunningham reports<br />

EDDIE SUNIA was named<br />

Prebbleton’s division 1 player of<br />

the year on Saturday night.<br />

The flanker started on the<br />

blindside in the Coleman Shield<br />

final against Waihora last month,<br />

which Prebbleton won 37-3.<br />

At West Melton’s senior prizegiving<br />

on Friday night, their<br />

division 1 top-try scorer Bradley<br />

Johns was named player of the<br />

year for his team. The hooker<br />

scored 10 tries over the season.<br />

Prebbleton division 1 coaches<br />

Simon Fitzgerald, Ant Sharp and<br />

Tim Murgatroyd (player/coach)<br />

shared the Jim Jones Memorial<br />

Trophy for the club’s senior<br />

coaches of the year.<br />

Prebbleton winger Arata<br />

Yoshida was named the Lumber<br />

Specialties Cup rookie of the year<br />

for the division 1 side and won<br />

the Dave Forrester & Karl Challis<br />

Trophy for the under-19 player of<br />

the year. The division 1 side also<br />

recorded the most points of any<br />

senior team this year with 591.<br />

At the West Melton prizegiving,<br />

Harry Pringle was named<br />

the victorious division 3 side’s<br />

player of the year and voted the<br />

player’s player. Pringle featured<br />

at centre in their 19-12 win<br />

over Prebbleton in last month’s<br />

Ellesmere final. Brooklyn Dalgety<br />

took home the Johnathan Gall<br />

Most Promising Representative<br />

Player Cup. Dalgety was a<br />

regular starter at centre for<br />

<strong>Selwyn</strong> Schools’ Combined this<br />

season and one of five West<br />

Melton players selected in the<br />

Ellesmere under-<strong>16</strong>s.<br />

PHOTO: JOSH BAMBER/CRFU<br />

VALUABLE: Harry Pringle<br />

was named the West Melton<br />

division 3 player of the year,<br />

while Eddie Sunia was<br />

Prebbleton’s division 1<br />

player of the year.<br />

Bradley Johns and<br />

Brooklyn Dalgety<br />

PREBBLETON<br />

PRIZE-GIVING<br />

• Division 1<br />

Player of the year<br />

(Prebbleton Tavern Trophy):<br />

Eddie Sunia.<br />

Rookie of the year (Lumber<br />

Specialties Cup): Arata<br />

Yoshida.<br />

Player’s player (Matt Orr<br />

Memorial Trophy): Tim<br />

Murgatroyd.<br />

• Division 2<br />

Player’s player: Harry Mayo.<br />

Player of the year (John<br />

Burns Cup): Anaru Knowler.<br />

• Division 3<br />

Players player (B Schrader,<br />

L Stratford, F D’ath): Connor<br />

Sullivan.<br />

Most valued player (Pop<br />

& Jumbo Trophy): Dave<br />

Campbell.<br />

• Women’s<br />

Forward of the year (Kris<br />

Wenmouth Cup): Saqqara<br />

Winter.<br />

Back of the year (Kev Scovell<br />

Cup): Courtney Shadbolt.<br />

Players player (K & K Trophy):<br />

Ashleigh Mitchell<br />

Player of the year (Jet Junkie<br />

Cup): Renae Fitzgibbon.<br />

• Colts<br />

Most improved: Dillon<br />

Geddes.<br />

Player’s player: Riley Steel &<br />

Oliver Hogan.<br />

Player of the year<br />

(Prebbleton RFC Trophy):<br />

Oliver Hogan.<br />

• Club awards<br />

Highest achiever in JAB:<br />

David Rogers.<br />

Under-19 player of the year<br />

(Dave Forrester & Karl Challis<br />

Trophy): Arata Yoshida.<br />

Colt of the year (Prebbleton<br />

RFC Junior Cup): Jack<br />

Fantham.<br />

Most improved open grade<br />

player (Coaches Cup): Dan<br />

Laughton.<br />

Most achieved senior player<br />

(Prebbleton Transport Cup):<br />

Tevita Manukeu.<br />

Team who scored the most<br />

points in the club (Andy<br />

Todd Cup): Div 1 (591).<br />

Senior coach of the year<br />

(Jim Jones Memorial<br />

Trophy): Simon Fitzgerald,<br />

Ant Sharp, Tim Murgatroyd.<br />

Club stirrer of the year: Kevin<br />

Scovell.<br />

Keenest club member<br />

(Pioneer Cup): Will Morrish.<br />

The good buggar award<br />

(Hamish Page Tankard):<br />

Mike Miles.<br />

Personality of the year<br />

(Owen Hoskin Memorial<br />

Trophy): Phil Armstrong.<br />

WEST MELTON<br />

PRIZE-GIVING<br />

• Division 1<br />

Player of the year: Bradley<br />

Johns.<br />

Forward of the year: Sean<br />

Emms.<br />

Back of the year: Leethan<br />

Rawiri.<br />

Top try scorer: Bradley Johns<br />

(10).<br />

Top point scorer: Kane<br />

Meyerhoff.<br />

MVP sportsman award:<br />

Jamie Aureka & Maoate<br />

Dunn.<br />

Austin Family Cup – players<br />

player award: Leethan<br />

Rawiri.<br />

Most improved player: Sam<br />

Kempton.<br />

• Division 3<br />

Player of the year: Harry<br />

Pringle.<br />

Players choice award: Harry<br />

Pringle.<br />

Forward of the year: Harry<br />

Silcock.<br />

Back of the year: Paul<br />

Fairbrother.<br />

G Hale Cup – outstanding<br />

contribution: Daniel<br />

Cunningham & Russell Clark.<br />

Sportsman of the year: Blair<br />

Agnew.<br />

MVP – Outstanding<br />

Contribution Cup: Joel<br />

Pickworth.<br />

Bendon Cup: Clinton<br />

Smither.<br />

• Club Awards<br />

Robyn Evans Cup –<br />

outstanding services to the<br />

club: Richard Sands.<br />

President’s Cup: Ants Calder.<br />

Personality of the year<br />

award: Lance Mitchell.<br />

Lance Mitchell Trophy: Eva<br />

Ratahi.<br />

Johnathan Gall Most<br />

Promising Representative<br />

Player Cup: Brooklyn<br />

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