Dragons duo win PRO14 awards
DRAGONS duo Brok Harris and Ashton Hewitt are among the winners in a list of awards announced by the Guinness PRO14.
Prop Harris became the latest winner of the Tackle Machine award boasting an impressive 97.6% success rate for the 2020/21 season.
The award is given to the player who has made 150 tackles or more and set the highest completion percentage.
The 36-year-old South African has been ever-present for his region in this campaign and took the title ahead of Glasgow Warriors’ Thomos Gordon (97.1%) while Cardiff Blues’ flanker Josh Turnbull (93.5%) managed to break the 200-barrier for total tackles.
Harris also completed another milestone during the campaign, playing his 100th Guinness PRO14 game in December against Cardiff Blues.
Meanwhile, Dragons winger Ashton Hewitt has earned the right to be called the Ironman of the 2020/21 Guinness PRO14 season having clocked up
an impressive 1,200 minutes of action over 16 rounds.
Hewitt, who scored five tries, topped the charts for Defenders Beaten (52) and came second for Clean Breaks (20), started and finished 15 of Dragons’ 16 games in the Guinness PRO14 during the campaign.
Hewitt was a constant threat in the region’s attacking game as he also came in the Top 10 for Offloads with 11.
Munster’s Chris Cloete won the Turnover King title.
Cloete totalled 14 turnovers, a tally which was matched by Scarlets’ breakthrough flanker, Jac Morgan, however, using the Opta stats the total number of jackal turnovers was used as a tiebreaker.
The Munster man claimed 12 jackals compared to Morgan’s nine.
Three players shared the title of Top Try-Scorer with Alex Wootton (Connacht), Marcell Coetzee (Ulster) and Scott Penny (Leinster) all scoring nine tries apiece.