Revenge for Bangor against
Students
BANGOR gained revenge for losing their home game against the students with a 12-0 away victory across the city at the university’s Treborth ground last Saturday.
Back in September, Bangor University had won 26-14 at Cae Milltir, but the tables were turned in last weekend’s Division Three North return derby.
Bangor’s win was based on aggressive defence with the visiting team cutting the students down before they could get into their stride time and time again.
The referee was very sharp on players holding on or not rolling away and there was a barrage of penalties, first against one team and then the other.
It was a penalty kick into the corner that allowed Bangor to set up a rolling maul from the lineout and captain Phil Owen got the ball down.
The second half was a repeat of the first with the students getting plenty of possession only to be tackled before they could move it wide.
Bangor’s front row had the edge in the scrums and took full advantage.
In one period of domination flanker Declan Jones picked the ball up at the back and got in close to the posts to make the conversion easy for Liam Owen.
The game ended with another barrage of penalties against Bangor and they ended up with 13 players after two were yellow-carded, but they kept tackling right to the final whistle and ran out worthy winners.
This Saturday sees Bangor play their postponed home game against Porthmadog at Cae Milltir.
Bangor’s youth team also continued their successful season with an exciting 20-14 win at Bro Ffestiniog.
HOLYHEAD celebrated their first win of the season in Division Three North when they overcame Benllech 5-3 at home in an Anglesey derby, winger Tom Griffiths notching the all-important try.
Last September, the teams had played out an 18-18 draw at Benllech, but Holyhead just got the better of things on their own patch, the win also edging them off the bottom of the table and sending Porthmadog there instead.
Holyhead make the difficult trip to second-placed Llangollen (2.30pm).