2016 Ohio Aviators season

Ohio Aviators

Location	Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Ground	Memorial Park (Capacity: N/A)
Coach	Paule Barford
Captain	Jamie Mackintosh
League	PRO Rugby
2016	–
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The 2016 Ohio Aviators season was the first in the club's history. Coached by Paule Barford and captained by Jamie Mackintosh, Ohio competed in the United States 2016 PRO Rugby competition.

In 2016, Ohio jerseys were made by Champion System.

Fixtures

All home matches were played at Memorial Park in Obetz.

Date	Week	Opponent	Venue	Result	Score	Tries	Goals	Attendance	Report
17 April	1	Denver Stampede	Infinity Park, Denver	Loss	16–13	Suniula	Davies (3)	2,312	[1]
	2	Bye
1 May	3	San Francisco Rush	Memorial Park, Obetz	Won	51-17	Davis(2) Dargan Kalm(2) Ferrarini Eloff(2)	Davies	2,000
8 May	4	Sacramento Express	Bonney Field, Sacramento	Won	17-31	Baum Davis Ferrarini	Davies Eloff	2,000
15 May	5	San Diego Breakers	Torero Stadium, San Diego	Loss	20-24	Mackintosh Kalm	Shaw(2/3)	2,000
22 May	6	Sacramento Express	Memorial Park, Obetz	Won	50-17	Hughston(2) Ferrarini Fawsitt Kalm Mackintosh Davis(2)		1,500
29 May	7	San Francisco Rush	Boxer Stadium, San Francisco	Loss	35-20	Kalm(2) Ferrarini	Davies
	8	Bye
12 June	9	San Diego Breakers	Memorial Park, Obetz	Won	55–31
19 June	10	Denver Stampede	CIBER Field, Denver	Won	27-48		Davies
26 June	11	San Francisco Rush	Memorial Park, Obetz	Won	71–20
3 July	12	San Diego Breakers	Memorial Park, Obetz
9 July	13	Sacramento Express	Bonney Field, Sacramento
	14	Bye
	15	Bye
31 July	16	Denver Stampede	Memorial Park, Obetz

Ladder

2016 PRO Rugby season

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	B	Pts
1	Denver Stampede	12	10	0	2	403	273	+130	8	48
2	Ohio Aviators	12	9	0	3	476	273	+203	11	47
3	San Diego Breakers	12	4	0	8	335	413	−78	9	25
4	San Francisco Rush	12	4	0	8	339	454	−115	8	24
5	Sacramento Express	12	3	0	9	294	434	−140	6	18

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Ladder progression

2016 PRO Rugby season v t e
Team	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9	W10	W11	W12	W13	W14	W15	W16
Denver Stampede	4 (2nd)	9 (1st)	13 (1st)	13 (1st)	18 (1st)	23 (1st)	23 (1st)	27 (1st)	27 (1st)	27 (2nd)	31 (2nd)	31 (2nd)	36 (2nd)	41 (2nd)	46 (1st)	48 (1st)
Ohio Aviators	1 (3rd)	1 (4th)	6 (2nd)	11 (2nd)	12 (3rd)	17 (2nd)	17 (3rd)	17 (3rd)	22 (2nd)	27 (1st)	32 (1st)	37 (1st)	42 (1st)	42 (1st)	42 (2nd)	47 (2nd)
Sacramento Express	5 (1st)	5 (3rd)	5 (4th)	5 (4th)	5 (4th)	5 (4th)	5 (5th)	5 (5th)	5 (5th)	5 (5th)	5 (5th)	10 (5th)	11 (5th)	11 (5th)	16 (5th)	18 (5th)
San Diego Breakers	0 (4th)	5 (2nd)	6 (3rd)	11 (3rd)	15 (2nd)	15 (3rd)	20 (2nd)	21 (2nd)	22 (3rd)	23 (3rd)	23 (3rd)	23 (3rd)	23 (3rd)	24 (3rd)	25 (3rd)	25 (3rd)
San Francisco Rush	0 (5th)	0 (5th)	0 (5th)	1 (5th)	1 (5th)	3 (5th)	8 (4th)	8 (4th)	8 (4th)	12 (4th)	12 (4th)	12 (4th)	12 (4th)	17 (4th)	19 (4th)	24 (4th)
The table above shows a team's progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets.
Key:	win	loss	draw	bye

Player scoring

Top points scorers Rank Player Points 1 Sebastián Kalm 35 2 Shaun Davies 30 3 Spike Davis 25

Top try scorers Rank Player Tries 1 Sebastián Kalm 7 2 Spike Davis 5 3 Filippo Ferrarini 4

Updated: May 30, 2016

Squad

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Ohio Debut	App	T	C	P	DG	Pts
1	Jamie Mackintosh		PR	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
2	Peter Malcolm		FL	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
3	Angus MacLellan		PR	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
4	Pierce Dargan		LK	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
5	Ryan McTiernan		LK	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
6	Filippo Ferrarini		FL	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
7	Matt Hughston		CE	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
8	Sebastián Kalm		N8	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
9	Shaun Davies		SH	17 April 2016	1	0	1	2	0	8
10	JP Eloff		FH	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
11	Alex Elkins		WG	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
12	Taylor Howden		FH	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
13	Roland Suniula		CE	17 April 2016	1	1	0	0	0	5
14	Spike Davis		WG	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
15	Ahmad Harajly		WG	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
16	Cameron Falcon		HK	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
17	Demecus Beach		PR	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
18	Anthony Parry		PR	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
19	Dominic Pezzutti		N8	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
20	Chad Joseph		FL	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
21	Chris Schade		HK	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
22	Robbie Shaw		SH	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
23	Mason Baum		WG	17 April 2016	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Kyle Baillie		LK		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Dylan Fawsitt		HK		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Allan Hanson		FB		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Chris Kunkel		FH		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Zac Mizell		FB		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Shawn Riley		WG		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Zach Stryffeler		CE		0	0	0	0	0	0
	Dominic Waldouck		CE	12 June	1	3	0	0	0	15

Staff

• Head coach: Paule Barford
• Assistant coach: Paul Holmes
• Assistant coach: Eamonn Hogan

Transfers

Joined
Player	Position	Former team	Ref
Cameron Falcon	Hooker	New Orleans	[2]
Dylan Fawsitt	Hooker	Life University	[2]
Chris Schade	Hooker	Columbus	[3]
Demecus Beach	Prop	Life University	[3]
Jamie Mackintosh	Prop	Montpellier	[4]
Angus MacLellan	Prop	Chicago Lions	[2]
Anthony Parry	Prop	Columbus	[3]
Kyle Baillie	Lock	Atlantic Rock	[5]
Pierce Dargan	Lock	Clontarf	[2]
Ryan McTiernan	Lock	New York Athletic Club	[6]
Spike Davis	Flanker	Columbus	[2]
Filippo Ferrarini	Flanker	Zebre	[7]
Chad Joseph	Flanker	Dallas	[2]
Peter Malcolm	Flanker	Wheeling Jesuit University	[2]
Sebastián Kalm	Number 8	Lindenwood	[8]
Dominic Pezzutti	Number 8	Columbus	[3]
Shaun Davies	Scrum-half	Life University	[2]
Robbie Shaw	Scrum-half	Hartpury College	[2]
JP Eloff	Fly-half	Chicago Lions	[2]
Taylor Howden	Fly-half	Columbus	[2]
Chris Kunkel	Fly-half	Richmond	[2]
Matt Hughston	Centre	Charlotte	[2]
Zach Stryffeler	Centre	Columbus	[3]
Roland Suniula	Centre	Chalon	[2]
Dominic Waldouck	Centre	London Irish	[9]
Mason Baum	Wing	Davenport University	[3]
Alex Elkins	Wing	Columbus	[2]
Ahmad Harajly	Wing	Detroit Tradesmen	[2]
Shawn Riley	Wing	Notre Dame College	[3]
Allan Hanson	Fullback	Wheeling Jesuit University	[2]
Zac Mizell	Fullback	Austin Blacks	[2]
Paule Barford	Head coach	Cornell University	[10]

References

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