Once again, a bit delayed on this post....

but not too late to announce that the Aviators 7's squad traveled to Atlanta, GA for the 10th Annual Renegades 7's Tournament on June 7 and walked away as CHAMPIONS in the Men's Social bracket of the tournament!!!

After a slow start and despite only having 10 players for the whole tournament, the Aviators made it into the playoffs and cruised to victory in matches against strong 7's clubs including: The Piglets, the Slackers, and Renegades b to take home the Championship trophy!

Congrats goes to the whole side but especially the Man of the Tournament Marc "Georgia" Thomas who played stellar the whole day but also played in his final tournament with the Aviators.

Pensacola Aviators RFC

Well, this is a bit delayed but just wanted to post some results for our the Aviators Summer 7's season which is in full swing.

 

Our first tournament of the month, the Okaloosa 7's in Destin, was a success.  The Aviators fielded two teams during the tournament.  The Aviators Gold side cruised thru the pool play with wins of 55-0, 30-0, and 24-15 against Okaloosa, Jackson, and the SLUTS to advance as the top seed from their pool.  The Aviators then cruised in their quarterfinal match to advance to the semifinals where they faced Baton Rouge.  Unfortunately the Aviators couldn't capitalize on the game tying try in the last 2 minutes and ended up losing by 5 points.   However, due to our strong performance in previous matches we played in the Cup Championship match against Birmingham immediately following the loss but rebounded quickly with a shutout victory to take home the Cup trophy.

 

It was a long day of rugby but overall a success.  Other new members got their first action in 7's rugby to gain some quality experience.  Congrats are in order to our Man of the Tourney who was Doug Jolly.

 

Pensacola Aviators RFC

The Biggest Loser competition has come to a end although some of us are planning on keeping the weight loss trend going.  Below is the order of results from the competitors and the top competitor wins the prize pot.  Overall, really good job done, expcept for the Gooch!

1st place:  Lem, who lost a total of 23 lbs which equaled a decrease of 8.55% of body weight.

2nd place: Satchmo, who lost 20 lbs even which equaled a decrease of 7.75% of body weight.

3rd place: Cheese, who lost 17 lbs despite not working out once!!!....which equaled a decrease of 6.75% of body weight.

Last place (as usual):  Ross (or the Taint, The Gooch), who lost 2 lbs which equaled a decrease of 0.87% of body weight.

Congrats to all! 

After a rough weekend in Atlanta drinking beer and watching some stellar rugby between Life and Pearl City, below are the results of week 4 Biggest Loser contest.

Satchmo:  Spondivits = no weigh in. DQ

Cheese: ate and drank all weekend, still lost 2 lbs, total loss is 14 lbs

Lem:  drank a pony keg of Guiness, still lost 1.5 lbs, total loss 18.5 lbs

Ross:  poor Taint gained a pound this week, HAHA!

3 more weeks.  Final weigh in is after Okaloosa 7's

Below are the update results for our Biggest Loser competition:

Satchmo:  2 lbs lost for week, 11 lbs overall

Cheese: he's pretty much a dumbass and didn't weigh in, so still at 9 lbs overall

Lem: 4 lbs lost for week, 17 lbs overall

Ross:  0 lbs lost for week, 3 overall (note: the Taint did mess up his ankle in practice last tuesday)

To be continued......could be a rough week for Cheese, Satchmo, and Lem as the hit Atlanta for the weekend and Spondivits!

Here are the weekly results for our Biggest Loser competition.

Satchmo:  6 lbs lost in wk 2, total lost 9 lbs

Lem: 4.5 lbs lost in wk 2, total lost is 11 lbs

Cheese: ??? lbs lost wk 2, total lost is 9 lbs

Taint: 2 lbs lost in wk 2, total lost is 3 lbs.

Results probably would've been a lot better for Satchmo, Lem and Cheese, but drunk kickball resulted in some unexpected "consumption"!

Here are the results from the first week of Biggest Loser:

Lem: 6 lbs lost

Satchmo: 3 lbs lost

Ross: 1 lb lost

Cheese:  no weight, DQ

----Apparently not eating a Black and Blue pizza and a crapload of Belgian fries makes a difference....To be continued.

The biggest loser competition has begun.  It’s Lem versus the Grusenski brothers.  Feel free to post bets on who you think will win.  The criteria is the most weight lost measured by percentage over 6 weeks, as well as weekly weigh ins to see who lost the most each week.

Yes, this means no more Belgian French Fries and duck sauce from Hopjacks! damn it!

3/24/08 Pensacola improves to 6-1 against Columbus.  Pensacola RFC hosted Columbusthis past Saturday for their final home game of the season.  The Aviators played a solid match against a motivated Columbus team that still had playoff aspirations, but those were smashed by the Aviators as the controlled the whole match despite a few starters and won the match 32-21.   The match was controlled by strong play in the pack all day.  The Aviators back 3 also played stellar to shutdown Columbus’s game plan to use the kicking game to control the match, which quickly turned into their downfall.  Congratulations to fullback Craig "Fluffer" Nosewich who received man of the match for his great running and kicking in the open field, which countered the continuous kicking of the Columbus side.