Five-star Quins leave the All Blacks feeling blue

CARMARTHEN Quins scored five tries as they thrashed basement club Neath on a rain-soaked night in west Wales.

A hat-trick from Gareth Rees and two penalty tries, plus 12 points from the boot of Aled Thomas, saw the hosts run riot.

All Neath could muster was two converted tries from Chris Morgans and Michael Evans.

Quins claimed the game’s first try when lively scrum-half Rees ran in unopposed from 30 metres out.

Rees bagged his second after half an hour when he crossed from close-range after the Quins scrum had annihilated the Neath pack.

With the game played in terrible conditions, Carmarthen proceeded to rely on their pack of forwards and got their just rewards with a penalty try after another dominant scrum.

The hosts were awarded their second penalty try soon after, which secured the bonus point, as the Welsh All Blacks continued to get destroyed in the scrum.

Rees crossed for his hattrick when hooker Thomas Ball burst through the Neath defence before offloading to the Ammanford product who crossed in the left-hand corner.

Morgans got one back for the visitors as he danced his way past two defenders before dotting the ball down over the line.

Evans then raced in for Neath’s second try but they were little more than consolation as Quins cruised. Star man Gareth Rees - Carmarthen Quins