2012 USARL season

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2012 USA Rugby League
Teams8
Premiers Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen (1st title)
Minor premiers Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen (2nd title)
Matches played35

The 2012 USARL season was the second season of the USA Rugby League (USARL). The 2012 season was an 8-team competition with the addition of the Baltimore Blues and departure of the New Jersey Turnpike Titans. The season began on June 2, and ended with the Championship Final on August 25 in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] The Jacksonville Axemen completed the USARL's first perfect season, capturing the Axemen's first USARL Championship and second minor premiership.

Contents

Teams

ColorsClubCityStateStadiumFoundationJoined
Yorkcolours.svg
Baltimore Blues Baltimore Flag of Maryland.svg  Maryland N/A20122012
Ipswich Colours.svg
Boston Thirteens Boston Flag of Massachusetts.svg  Massachusetts MIT Steinbrenner Stadium20092011
Jacksonville colors.svg
Jacksonville Axemen Jacksonville Flag of Florida.svg  Florida Hodges Stadium 20062011
New Haven colours.svg
New Haven Warriors New Haven Flag of Connecticut.svg  Connecticut Ken Strong Stadium20062011
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg
Oneida FC Cambridge Flag of Massachusetts.svg  Massachusetts Steinbrenner Stadium20112011
Philadelphia colours.svg
Philadelphia Fight Conshohocken Flag of Pennsylvania.svg  Pennsylvania A. A. Garthwaite Stadium19982011
RI Rebellion colors.png
Rhode Island Rebellion Providence Flag of Rhode Island.svg  Rhode Island Classical High School 20112011
St. George colours.svg
Washington DC Slayers Washington Flag of Washington, D.C..svg  Washington Duke Ellington Field20032011

Season table

2012 USARL season
#TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1 Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen 88003989830016
2 Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight 860245811634212
3 Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens 860244213231012
4 St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers 85032751888710
5 Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion 8404358291678
6 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC 8206154498-3444
7 New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors 8107122354-2322
8 Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues 800860590-5300

Ladder progression

Team12345678
1 Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen 246810121416
2 Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight 24688101212
3 Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens 2466881012
4 St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers 022246810
5 Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion 00244668
6 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC 00024444
7 New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors 22222222
8 Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues 00000000

Regular season

The league played a single round-round schedule, plus one additional game per team. Teams qualified for the playoffs based on point differential, with a win counting for 2 points, a draw for 1, a loss for 0, and a forfeit for −2 (or greater). [2] [3] All fixtures sourced from the USARL. [4]

Round 1

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)Venue
Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues 0 – 48 New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors June 2TBA
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC 8 – 68 Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens June 2 @ 2pmMIT Steinbrenner Stadium
Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight 78 – 4 Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion June 2TBA
St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers 18 – 48 Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen June 2Duke Ellington Field

Round 2

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)Venue
Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen 62 – 10 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC June 9Hodges Stadium
Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion 10 – 41 St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers June 9Classical High School
New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors 16 – 46 Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens June 9Ken Strong Stadium
Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues 6 – 86 Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight June 9TBA

Round 3

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)Venue
Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen 48 – 10 St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers June 16Hodges Stadium
New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors 8 – 78 Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion June 16Ken Strong Stadium
Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight 82 – 6 Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues June 16Dixon Field, Cabrini College
Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens 64 – 6 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC June 16 @ 2pmMIT Steinbrenner Stadium

Round 4

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)Venue
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC 68 – 28 Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues June 23 @ 3pmMIT Steinbrenner Stadium
Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens 32 – 36 Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen June 23 @ 1pmMIT Steinbrenner Stadium
Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion 54 – 24 New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors June 23Classical High School
St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers 18 – 36 Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight June 23Duke Ellington Field

Round 5

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)Venue
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC 44 – 20 New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors June 30 @ 3pmMIT Steinbrenner Stadium
Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight 12 – 32 Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen June 30Dixon Field, Cabrini College
Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens 58 – 22 Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion June 30 @ 1pmMIT Steinbrenner Stadium
Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues 4 – 50 St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers June 30TBA

Round 6

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)Venue
Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen 88 – 0 Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues July 14Hodges Stadium
St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers 34 – 30 Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens July 14Duke Ellington Field
New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors 6 – 72 Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight July 14Ken Strong Stadium
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC 12 – 100 Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion July 14Classical High School

Round 7

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)Venue
Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen 54 – 22 Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion July 21Hodges Stadium
Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues 0 – 100 Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens July 21TBA
Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight 82 – 0 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC July 21Dixon Field, Cabrini College
St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers 30 – 0 (forfeit) New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors July 21Duke Ellington Field

Round 8

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)Venue
Ipswich Colours.svg Boston Thirteens 44 – 10 Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight July 28 @ 1pmMIT Steinbrenner Stadium
Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Oneida FC 12 – 74 St. George colours.svg Washington D.C. Slayers July 28 @ 3pmMIT Steinbrenner Stadium
New Haven colours.svg New Haven Warriors 0 – 30 Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen July 28Ken Strong Stadium
Melbourne colours.svg Rhode Island Rebellion 68 – 16 Yorkcolours.svg Baltimore Blues July 28Classical High School

Playoffs

The playoffs consisted of a two-round single-elimination tournament in August. The season's top four teams competed in a semi-final round, with the two winners going on to the Championship Final. In the first round on August 11, the first-placed team hosted the fourth-placed, and the second-placed hosted the third-placed.

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)VenueRefereeCrowd
SEMI-FINALS
Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen 58 – 0 St. George colours.svg Washington DC Slayers August 11, 2012Hodges Stadium, Jacksonville
Philadelphia colours.svg Philadelphia Fight 18 – 58 Ipswich Colours.svg Boston 13s August 11, 2012Dixon Field, Cabrini College
CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL
Jacksonville colors.svg Jacksonville Axemen 28 – 22 Ipswich Colours.svg Boston 13s August 25, 2012 Boston, Massachusetts

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