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2005 Season: Match Reports
04/30/05 2005 Regular Season Scores and Standings (results)
03/05/05 Tennessee Teams Compete in 2nd Annual Nash Bash

05/10/05 Brentwood Wins its 4th Consecutive State Championship, Tops West

05/10/05 Brentwood B Wins the Bowl over Farragut, See Scores and Match Reports

See Entire Tournament Gallery, Included: Mens Cup and Mens Bowl

Skills Contest Winners:
The Pack Race was won by Benji Goff from Brentwood.
The Back Race was won by Jonathan Brown from Brentwood.
The Passing Contest was won by Alex Reveta from Franklin.
The Kicking Contest was won by Nick Chamberlain from Brentwood.

April 29 - Oakland Fields. Brentwood A and Riverdale both advanced in the Cup Semi's to make a trip to the State Finals next week at Crockett park. Also, Brentwood B ran out Overton to advance in one Bowl. But it was the Bowl Semi-Final between Franklin and the Oakland Mud Dogs that provided the most thrilling match of the weekend. Eventually, Oakland would hang on in this burner to win by one lone try in the first half with a final score, 7-0.

In this highly contested match, Franklin looked to use their superior back-line to spread the field. Their sure-handed #10 was good at distributing and getting it out wide. On defense, Oakland was spirited and saved some probable tries with some finishing tackling in the opened field. Franklin had multiple line breaks that were chased down or eventually riden out of bounds. But it was the Mud Dogs pack that seemed to control the day with solid rucking and multiple phases. In fact, their entire back row was all over the field at the breakdowns providing proper ball. Also, their big #3 was wearing down Franklin with his bulling pick and goes. Eventually, Oakland were rewared for their strong pack play and broke thru for a try near the posts. Conversion made and score was 7-0.

The second half showed much of the same with big tackles from both sides and Franklin again spread the ball wide with their enterprising backline. In fact, Franklin's #10 had another huge line break that was thwarted by Oaklands fullback that would have been a sure try. As time ticked down, the game hung in the balance with both teams mounting charges. But Franklin was most ferocious and mounted and all out assault to even the score as they spent almost 20 minutes bashing away at their opponents try line. However, Oakland's line would not fall and their defense held firm. Eventually, time would expire and the Mud Dogs were victorious.

This was probably an upset since this was arguably Franklin's strongest team to date. Also, Franklin beat Oakland sure handidly at the beginning of the season. The Mud Dogs young team seemed to gain steam througout the season and were rewarded for their hard work. Both teams played exceptional rugby, gave it their all, and provided the fans with more than their monies worth.

In other scores, Brentwood B ran out Overton, 40-0. Overton played very strong being down a man throughout the match and provided good ball at the breakdowns. However, the All-Black's couldn't handle Brentwood's quality positional kicking and their exceptional athletes who bullied thru for repeated tries. Also on the day, Riverdale defeated the Fighting Irish 36-5. Riverdale used their exceptional line-outs and strong rucking to bull thru the Irish defense. The Irish were continually put on their heels even while putting up big tackles and doing the hard work. Their #10 played very well and tried to kick out of danger but couldn't deal with Riverdales charging pack.

04/30/05 - 2005 Regular Season Scores and Standings

Team Wins Losses Ties For Against Differ Points
Win = 3 Points / Tie = 2 Points / Loss - 1 Point

Brentwood A 6 - 0 0 / 213 22 191 18
Riverdale 5 - 1 - 0 /92 74 18 16
Brentwood B 5 - 1 - 0 /60 71 -11 16
Fighting Irish 3 - 3 - 0 /93 136 -43 12
Brentwood C 3 - 3 - 0 /74 39 35 12
Green Hills 2 - 4 - 0 5/7 74 -17 10
Upperman 2 - 4 - 0 /35 44 -9 10
Franklin 2 - 4 - 0 60 46 14 10
Oakland 2 - 4 - 0 36 153 -117 10
Overton 0 - 6 - 0 /0 61 -61 6

Game Points (for/against) are not 100% accurate

Conference Cup 1 Brentwood "A" 6-0-0 2 Riverdale 5-1-O 2 O 3 Fighting Irish 3-3-O 4 Upperman 2-4-O 4

Conference Bowl Brentwood "B" 5-1-O Oakland 2-4-O Franklin 2-4-O Overton O-6-O

Conference Plate 1 Brentwood "C" 3-3-O 2 Greenhills 2-4-O

12/06/04 Mike Rayburn Steps Down as MTRC Director (V5:A4)

11/16/04 2005 Conference Meeting Rescheduled (V5:A3)

09/22/04 Overview and 2005 Conference Meeting on 11/17/04 (V5:A1)