8 East Philadelphia Fight end of season awards celebration
Philadelphia Fight Rugby News and Press
August 28, 2011
5/8 Joel Beasley, 2nd Row Rocco Gabrielli and Captain/Prop Matt Webster show off their best Golf Pros look for their Sunday Funday festivities.
The Fight players, Vixens, family and friends all showed up for the 8 East Philadelphia Fight's end of year awards party Sunday afternoon, and continued their national championship win celebration from the night before.
Everyone gathered at our home clubhouse 8 East in Conshohocken and coach Peter Illfield and voice of the Fight David Bowe awarded the boys for their inspirational season and for their individual performances.
Fight Awards for 2011:
MVP-Lock-Kevin Wiggins
Players/Player-Prop-Matt Webster
Best Forward-Hooker-PFC Dave Wilmore
Best Back-Halfback-Joel Weeks
Encouragement Award-Winger Michael "Squirrel" Timpano
Clubman/Woman of the Year-Donnie and Mary Morrison
Thanks to all our friends, family and fans who joined us and supported us all year, and pushed us to be our best and take down our first USA Rugby League National Championship. We would not be here without your patience, understanding of why we are the way we are about this game, and encouraging us to be become the best on and off the field.
Special thanks goes out to 8 East Bar and Restaurant, our home clubhouse. Brad Craig, Bob Storti, Robin Binnall and your whole staff take such good care of us and we thank you. You are all greatly appreciated!!
Special thanks also goes out to Dr. Jack Kazanjian and Kathryn Courtney for all your help in keeping our boys healthy and match ready.
To the Borough of Conshohocken we thank Ed Phipps, Darlene Hildebrand, and Fran Marabella for all your help in making this season a success, and also Chief of Police Michael Orler and all your officers who help keep everything safe at all our events.
To all our sponsors, you give us the ability to compete and travel and put our game out their to our fans in the USA and all around the world. We hope that you see a benefit in helping us and will continue to support us for years to come! THANK YOU!
To the Fight Vixens Dance Team-thank you Heather and the girls for all your support and how hard you work to get our name out there to the masses. You have done a great job drawing in fans with your performances, appearances, and with passing out tickets to the entire surrounding area. We owe you all a great deal of thanks!
Finally to Coach/Chairman Peter Illfield- without your knowledge, determination, teaching ability, and PATIENCE with all the staff and players, we would never have made it this far. Thanks for sticking by us when things were at their worst 4 years ago and showing us how great it feels to be CHAMPIONS! You are truly the greatest!!!
See you at our fall party and then our big Christmas bash that is already in the works!!
GO THE FIGHT!!!
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