Wales On Sunday

SWANSEA ....................... 39 RGC ................................. 12

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SWANSEA finished their season on a high as they notched their seventh win of the season with a 32-19 triumph over RGC at Bonymaen’s Maes Collen ground.

Tries from Wales U20 duo Llien Morgan and Harri Houston helped push the Whites to a bonus-point win and rise two places in the Indigo Prem table to finish 10th overall.

The win not only avenged their 34-29 defeat in north Wales earlier in the season, but allowed Swansea to leapfrog Carmarthen Quins and their visitors in the table.

The unfamiliar surroundin­gs of Championsh­ip club Bonymaen’s home venue – St Helen’s was unavailabl­e due to cricket – meant the game was frantic and error-strewn in the opening stages as Rhys Jones kicked two penalties to give the hosts a 6-0 lead.

Scrum half Efan Jones then caught the Whites defence napping at a close range penalty as he tapped and went all the way to the line for a try converted by Sam Earl-Jones.

That edged the Gogs into a slender lead before two tries put Swansea in the box seat before the break.

Morgan crossed for the first and then Hoston followed suit, with Jones converting the latter to make it 18-7 at half-time.

The RGC cause wasn’t helped when Rhys Tudor went to the sinbin early in the second half and then Cori Lewis-Jenkins ran in a third home try.

James Davies added the extras and then went on to improve a bonus point try by back row man Dafi Davies from close range.

RGC picked up a brace of consolatio­n tries to close the gap to 13 points.

Having beaten Pontypool 37-26 in their final home game the previous weekend, RGC had hoped to give departing head coach Ceri Jones a winning send-off, but it was not to be.

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