Old Firm complete an unbeaten season
MOUNTAIN Ash maintained their unbeaten record as they made it a perfect 10 out of 10 in Admiral Division 1 East Central as they beat title rivals Treorchy 23-8.
A crowd of almost 500 tuned up to see the battle of the two unbeaten teams in the league and they were rewarded with a full-blooded affair in which two interception tries from the home back line turned the game on its head.
In what was the final game of the league campaign for both sides, the incentive for the home side was to complete their 100% record and stop Treorchy from taking any points away with them. They did that to end on 45 points from 10 games.
Their visitors have played two games less, but even if they had secured maximum points from their three unplayed matches they wouldn’t have been able to overtake that tally. It mans The Old Firm can rightfully declare themselves as champions.
Outside half Callum Hall got them off the mark and then converted the first of two breakaway tries. Wing Declan Conway picked off the first interception score from just inside his own half.
Lima Lloyd kicked a first-half penalty for Treorchy and Hall added a second to make it 13-3 at the break. In the second half, home full back Jarrod Cushion raced in from 70 metres after intercepting a wayward pass and Hall’s conversion and third penalty completed the scoring.
Treorchy grabbed a consolation try from Ellis Fackrell, but it was another defeat for the Zebras to follow on from their loss to Penallta in the WRU National Plate final at Principality Stadium.
The big game between Brecon and Plare winners Penallta in Division 1 East was cancelled, although Penallta’s 2nd XV did met Bargoed Warriors in the Rhondda & East Glamorgan Ivor Williams Cup final, the Warriors winning 23-16.