Narberth salvage honour of away teams

SWALEC Championship round-up

NARBERTH were the only team to come up trumps away from home in the Championship as they kicked their way to a 16-13 victory at Beddau.

All the other results went with the home side with the unbeaten reigning champions Pontypool running in seven tries in a 47-19 win over Glynneath to open up a five point gap at the top of the table.

Battling Beddau suffered in the mud as they conceded a penalty try and found Jonathan Rogers in fine form as he dropped a goal and kicked two penalties. It was tight and tense throughout with Rogers’ drop goal being cancelled out by a Hywel Chatham penalty to make it 3-3 at the break.

The penalty try gave the Otters the advantage they were looking for, but the home side hit back with a try of their own from Leon Rogers that Chatham converted to level things up at 10-10. Rogers and Chatham then swapped penalties before the visiting No.10 sealed it with his second penalty.

Pontypool race into a 33-7 interval lead at home with tries from Cameron WatsonBoycott, Lewis Protheroe, Jamie Jeaune, Ben Parry and Kieran Meek. Matthew Jones converted four of them and then added the extras to both second half tries from Craig Atwel and Clayton Gullis.

Tata Steel moved into second place thanks to a five try, 29-13 home win over newly promoted Rhydyfelin. Bleddyn Davies started the ball rolling for the home side, who were 24-6 ahead at the break with a bonus point already in the bag.

Dai Gratton scored all the points for Rhydyfelin with a try, conversion and two penalties and the gallant visitors actually won the second half 7-5 as Tata only added one more try after the break.

Cardiff Met gave new director of rugby Danny Milton a winning start as they beat Newcastle Emlyn 33-20 while Bedlinog were 36-10 winners over Newbridge and Skewen beat

Trebanos 34-20.