{"id":179346,"date":"2025-10-04T20:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179346\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:21:15","slug":"super-rygbi-cymru-llandovery-bridgend-and-pontypool-strike-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179346\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Rygbi Cymru: Llandovery, Bridgend and Pontypool strike late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Llandovery beat Rygbi Gogledd Cymru (RGC) 36-35 with the last kick to go top of the table on an afternoon of late drama in Super Rygbi Cymru (SRC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Drovers maintained their unbeaten start to move above Ebbw Vale, who saw their game at Cardiff postponed after Storm Amy caused damage at the Arms Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">RGC, winners at Pontypool last month, looked set to claim their biggest away win at Church Bank when they led 35-22 in the closing stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Jac Davies sparked a remarkable Llandovery comeback with a try before Tiaan Sparrow crossed in the final minute to set up Ioan Hughes for the match-winning conversion .<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was another dramatic finish at Pontypool when former Wales Under-20s hooker Evan Wood crossed to secure a 24-21 comeback win against Carmarthen Quins, who had led 21-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bridgend also struck late to edge a thriller against Aberavon 36-26 at Talbot Athletic Ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hooker Corey Lewis scored the Ravens&#8217; fourth try in the closing stages and then scrum-half Chris Williams sealed the victory to deny the Wizards even a losing bonus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newport&#8217;s terrible start to the defence of their title continued on Thursday when beaten by Swansea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Whites completed a double over the Black and Ambers, who are yet to win this season, by winning 24-14 in the Dunvant rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/welsh-super-trophy\/scores-fixtures\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Rygbi Cymru fixtures and results<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/welsh-super-trophy\/table\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Rygbi Cymru table<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Llandovery beat Rygbi Gogledd Cymru (RGC) 36-35 with the last kick to go top of the table on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-179346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}