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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 />
Dalgety.<br />
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