1991 SP Inter City Cup season

The 1991 Papua New Guinea Inter-City Cup (or for sponsorship reasons, the 1991 SP Cup), was the 2nd season of a nationwide rugby league tournament in Papua New Guinea. At the end of the rounds Port Moresby were on top becoming minor premiers. They also went on to defeat Mt Hagen Eagles in the grand final on tries scored after an 18–18 draw in regular time.

1991 Papua New Guinea National Rugby League (SP Inter-City Cup)
Duration19 May – 11 August 1991
Teams6
PremiersPort Moresby Vipers (2nd title)
Minor premiersPort Moresby Vipers
← 1990
1992 →

Teams

This year as before 6 teams entered the competition. The Sika Kundiawa Warriors, Curtain Star Mendi Muruks, Collins & Leahy Goroka Lahanis, Wamp-Nga Mt Hagen Eagles, Port Moresby Vipers and the LBC Lae City Bombers [1]

Prize money

Man of the Match: Rounds 1-10 K100, Preliminary final K200, Grand Final K300

Minor Premiers: K3000

Preliminary Final winners: K3000

Preliminary Final losers: K1500

Grand Final winners:K9000

Grand Final loser: K3000

Total prize money: K20,000

Competition

The league had 10 rounds after which teams in 2nd and 3rd played a preliminary final, the winners of which played the league leaders in the grand final. The competition started on 19 May. Games were played on Sundays.

Rounds

Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Port Moresby Vipers 26–28 Mt. Hagen Eagles 19 May 1991 Lloyd Robinson Oval
Goroka Lahanis 41–26 Mendi Muruks 19 May 1991 ?
Kundiawa Warriors 14–10 Lae City Bombers 19 May 1991 ?
ROUND ONE [2]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Mendi Muruks 26–12 Kundiawa Warriors 26 May 1991 Tende Rugby League oval
Mt. Hagen Eagles 18–40 Goroka Lahanis 26 May 1991 ?
Lae City Bombers 14–26 Port Moresby Vipers 26 May 1991 ?
ROUND TWO [3]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Lae City Bombers 16–6 Mendi Muruks 2 June 1991 ?
Goroka Lahanis 20–22 Port Moresby Vipers 2 June 1991 ?
Kundiawa Warriors 4–24 Mt. Hagen Eagles 2 June 1991 ?
ROUND THREE [4]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Mt. Hagen Eagles 20–20 Mendi Muruks 9 June 1991 ?
Goroka Lahanis 30–28 Lae City Bombers 9 June 1991 ?
Port Moresby Vipers 22–14 Kundiawa Warriors 9 June 1991 Lloyd Robinson Oval
ROUND Four [5]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Mt. Hagen Eagles 14-9 Lae City Bombers 16 June 1991 ?
Kundiawa Warriors 40–10 Goroka Lahanis 16 June 1991 ?
Port Moresby Vipers 30-19 Mendi Muruks 16 June 1991 Lloyd Robinson Oval
ROUND FIVE [6]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Lae City Bombers 22-16 Kundiawa Warriors 23 June 1991 ?
Port Moresby Vipers 40–28 Mt. Hagen Eagles 23 June 1991 Lloyd Robinson Oval
Mendi Muruks 34-8 Goroka Lahanis 23 June 1991 ?
ROUND SIX [7]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Port Moresby Vipers 32-18 Lae City Bombers 30 June 1991 Lloyd Robinson Oval
Mt. Hagen Eagles 36–16 Goroka Lahanis 30 June 1991 ?
Kundiawa Warriors 44-21 Mendi Muruks 30 June 1991 ?
ROUND SEVEN [8]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Mendi Muruks 2-18 Lae City Bombers 14 July 1991 ?
Port Moresby Vipers 36–11 Goroka Lahanis 14 July 1991 Lloyd Robinson Oval
Mt. Hagen Eagles 18-2 Kundiawa Warriors 14 July 1991 ?
ROUND EIGHT [9]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Mendi Muruks ?-? Mt. Hagen Eagles 21 July 1991 ?
Kundiawa Warriors 21–20 Port Moresby Vipers 21 July 1991 ?
Lae City Bombers ?-? Goroka Lahanis 21 July 1991 ?
ROUND NINE [10]
Home Score Away Match Information
Date Venue
Mt. Hagen Eagles ?-? Lae City Bombers 28 July 1991 ?
Port Moresby Vipers ?–? Mendi Muruks 28 July 1991 Lloyd Robinson Oval
Goroka Lahanis ?-? Kundiawa Warriors 18 July 1991 ?
ROUND TEN

Final table

1991 SP Inter-City Cup season Final Table
# Team Pld W D L Pts
1 Port Moresby Vipers 9 7 0 2 14
2 Mount Hagen Eagles 8 5 1 2 11
3 Kundiawa Warriors 9 4 0 5 8
4 Lae Bombers 8 3 0 5 6
5 Mendi Muruks 8 3 0 5 6
6 Goroka Lahanis 8 2 1 5 5

Finals

The prelim final was on 4 August, Mt Hagen beat Kundiawa 22-4 [11]

The Grand final was on 11 August. The Pt Moresby Vipers and Mt Hagen drew 18-18 after regular time with the vipers winning by the fact of scoring more tries.[12]

References

  1. ^ https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb7380549v/_1.pdf Wantok Niuspepar 27 June 1991
  2. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 3RN May 23rd 1991" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 3RN May 30th 1991" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 3RN June 6th 1991" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 3RN June 13th 1991" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 2RN June 20th 1991" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 2RN June 27th 1991" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 2RN July 4th 1991" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 2RN July 18th 1991" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Wantok Newspaper page 8 July 25th 1991" (PDF).
  11. ^ https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb3353209f/_1.pdf Wantok Newspaper 8 Aug 1991
  12. ^ https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb2670612b/_1.pdf 15 Aug 1991 Wantok Newspaper