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EGRL Showcase A Weekend of Competitive Games

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EGRL Showcase A Weekend of Competitive Games

Clayton from 2023. Alex Goff photo.

It was a weekend of competitive balance at the Elite Girls Rugby League Rugby Showcase South over the last two days.

Teams from eight states—Vienna, Clayton/Raleigh, Atlanta Valkyries, Raleigh Cobras, Downingtown, Doylestown, Charlotte Cardinals, West Carroll, Wando, Morris, and Aspetuck—were in action at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC.

Day 1      
Vienna 0 Clay/RRH 41
ATL Valkyries 7 Ral Cobras 12
Downingtown 17 Charlotte 22
Doylestown 24 ATL Valkyries 5
Morris 17 Ral Cobras 14
Clay/RRH 28 W.Carroll 19
Morris 19 Wando 0
W.Carroll 7 Aspetuck 31
Vienna 17 Wando 14
Downingtown 0 Aspetuck 12
Doylestown 10 Charlotte 25
       
Day 2      
Wando 0 Aspetuck 49
Doylestown 10 Ral Cobras 25
Morris 0 Clay/RRH 27
ATL Valkyries 35 Motley 14
W.Carroll 12 Downingtown 26
Vienna 5 Charlotte 24

Not surprisingly, the teams that have been on the field more showed a little better—both the Charlotte Cardinals and the Clayton/Raleigh Redhawks combined team went 3-0. But as you can see above, there were very few games that would be considered blowouts. Aspetuck was probably the most dominant team, only giving up the one try.

But overall only two teams ended up winless out of 11, and even they had their moments. But for the most part we saw a group of teams that played in a bunch of games (33 results in all-17 games) that could have gone either way. Of the 33 17 games played (that's an odd number, we know, but they made up for it with a Motley side to face Atlanta), four were decided by a try or less, and only five were shutouts.

Raleigh Cobras and Morris showed well, and in fact those two played in one of the closest games, with Morris winning 17-14. The hard luck team might have been Downingtown, which just barely lost to Charlotte and held Aspetuck to a 12-0 decision; with a little more good fortune they might have been 3-0.

EGRL So. Showcase W L T PF PA W%
Aspetuck 3 0 0 92 7 1.000
Clay/RRH 3 0 0 96 19 1.000
Charlotte 3 0 0 71 32 1.000
Raleigh Cobras 2 1 0 51 34 0.667
Morris 2 1 0 36 41 0.667
ATL Valkyries 1 2 0 47 50 0.333
Downingtown 1 2 0 43 46 0.333
Doylestown 1 2 0 44 55 0.333
Vienna 1 2 0 22 79 0.333
W.Carroll 0 3 0 38 85 0.000
Wando 0 3 0 14 85 0.000