QUINS CLAIM ANOTHER WIN OVER RAVENS

BRIDGEND are still awaiting their first win in the Indigo Group Premiership but at least left Carmarthen Park with a bonus point after two late tries.

If it was too little, too late, it showed the fighting spirit of the Ravens under new head coach Alun Wyn Davies.

With back-to-back home games coming up against RGC and Merthyr, they will be aiming for better things.

The bonus-point victory for the Quins was their third over the Ravens this season and pushed them up into fourth place in the table to keep alive their realistic hopes of reaching the end-of-season playoffs.

Kallum Evans raced over for a try in each half as the home team made amends for the previous weekend’s defeat at Carmarthen

Park by Swansea.

The bonus point was enough to see them move ahead of Merthyr into fourth place.

Evans opened the scoring in the eighth minute to give his side the lead, but it was an advantage on which the Quins were unable to build.

Owen Howe struck a penalty for the Ravens and it was tight affair from start to finish.

Lewys Millin drove over for a try that Jac Wilson converted to make it 12-3 to the home side at the break, and that lead was increased when Evans was given a simple five-metre run-in after good work in the visitors’ 22 by the home pack.

That try went unconverted, as did the bonus-point score from full-back Leon Randall that made it 22-3.

Bridgend looked down and out as that elusive first win of the season moved further and further away from them.

But they never gave up and hit back with two tries to ensure they left with a losing bonus point. The first was a penalty try from a driving line-out.

It also led to former Dragons back-rower Nic Cudd picking up a yellow card.

Then Lee Murphy grabbed a second try and Howe’s conversion cut the gap to five points.

CARMARTHEN QUINS  Tries: K Evans (2), L Millin, L Randall. Con: J Wilson.

BRIDGEND  Tries: L Murphy, pen try. Con: O Howe. Pen: O Howe.