Seattle has been crowned 2002 Major League Rugby champions with a crushing 60-5 victory over the Dallas Reds in Sunday's Championship Cup Final in Las Vegas.

A red hot Seattle RFC ran riot romping in for ten tries against just a solitary score by a valiant, though outgunned Reds team.

The Cup Final didn't see any scoring until the second quarter of the match when Seattle got on the board first with a try that followed a clever kick in behind the Dallas defense. The Reds retaliated minutes later to even things at 5-5, but Seattle kicked on with their second try just before halftime to close out the first half scoring with a slender 10-5 lead.

However, the men from the Pacific Northwest made their intentions crystal clear from the start of the second half when they scored a try right from the kickoff to increase their lead to 17-5. The game flowed back and forth for the next twenty minutes, until Seattle went in again to skip further ahead by 22-5.

Realizing that it was now all or nothing, the Dallas Reds stepped it up and dominated the run of play for the next ten minutes and got into the try zone, only to have the ball jolt loose as their player dived over the line. Unbelievably, in their anxiousness to get back into the game, within minutes the Reds bombed yet another score and that was all Seattle needed to press home the advantage.

Seattle went on a scoring spree racking up a staggering 40 points through six more tries in the final twelve minutes of the game as Dallas simply ran out of gas. Most of those points came as a result of Seattle being able to outflank Dallas with their incredibly speedy wingers.

Try as they might, the Reds couldn't stop the avalanche and Seattle clinched the MLR Championship Cup.

"Dallas had three huge games over three days and that pretty well told the story," said MLR president Anthony Hunter. "The Reds felt as though they'd played back-to-back finals.

"Hats off to Dallas, but Seattle was definitely the team of the tournament and it's great to have them on board with Major League Rugby."