Quins are made to suffer as Newport hit top form

CARMARTHEN Quins suffered a home defeat by Newport in the Indigo Premiership.

The Quins are now just one place off the bottom of the table, which is occupied by Bridgend.

But Newport’s rise up the table continued with another bonus-point victory as they began to show their true form.

There were four tries from the visitors, who last season had to play their last game of the campaign at

Carmarthen Park having seen Cardiff snatch the title away from them two days earlier.

A cagey opening saw both sides kick two penalties before Newport grabbed the initiative when man of the match Ioan Davies sped down the wing before feeding Che Hope with a scoring pass. Will Reed, who had kicked the two penalties for the

Black and Ambers, added the extras.

Newport then lost Alex Grey and Will Griffiths, but used the added time at the end of the half to good effect.

Piling the pressure on the Quins, they created a gap for Chay Smith to exploit and score to make it 18-3 at the interval.

Oli Andrew then burrowed his way over for the third try to set the Quins an even sterner task.

They responded by crossing for a try of their own from Steff Phillips and Stef Marshall kicked the conversion.

But there was no stopping the visitors and they rounded things off with a fourth try from Jonny Morris from a superb cross-kick by Reed.

Reed kicked the conversion and also added a penalty, while Matt O’Brien also added a penalty.

The Quins make the trip to fifthplaced Ebbw Vale tomorrow evening (7.30pm).