The Rugby Paper

Llanelli produce shock victory in One West

- ■ By Daniel Phillips

LLANELLI Wanderers produced a shock result in One West to beat the muchfancie­d Gorseinon 29-19.

Hywel Jenkins, Dafydd Daniel, Dafydd Jenkins, Rhydian Morgan and Jonathan George were all on the scoresheet for the Wanderers as they picked up a bonus point.

Kyran Craig crashed over twice for Gorseinon and Callum Steele claimed a third. Jack Gronow was on hand to smash over two conversion­s. One North, champions

Pwllheli beat Bro Ffestiniog 33-7 to move 11 points behind Nant Conwy with two games in hand.

John Llyr Pugh, Kevin Lee Morris, Nicholas J Butterwort­h, Dafydd Anwyl Williams and Owain Williams all crossed the whitewash for Pwllheli as they leapfrogge­d Bala into second.

Osian Jones knocked over three conversion­s while Owain Williams hit a fourth.

Bedwas booked their place in the quarter-finals of the WRU National Cup with a routine 40-14 victory at National Championsh­ip outfit Beddau.

The visitors had the lead on 16 minutes thanks to a penalty try after the hosts were penalised for pulling down a driving maul.

Fly-half Lewis Evans ran 40 metres to double the Wass’ advantage 10 minutes later and added the conversion.

Bedwas had to wait until the 50th minute to score again with Luke Crane running through.

Adam Williams added the fourth soon after to kill the tie. Evans, again, converted.

Tom Rowlands and Mike Callow also got in on the action and Evans’ conversion gave Bedwas a 40-0 lead with four minutes to go.

But Beddau secured a late double through flanker Regan Wilson and winger Gareth Hopkins.

Fly-half Hywel Chatham converted them both to restore a little pride.

Bedwas will now take on Newport in the last eight of the cup on March 3. Elsehwere, Abertiller­y v

Nelson and Dowlais v Risca were postponed.

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