Super Rygbi Cymru (SRC) leaders Ebbw Vale got back to winning ways by edging out Swansea at Dunvant thanks to Ieuan Morris’ hat-trick.<\/p>\n
The Steelmen strengthened their grip on top spot seven days after they lost the SRC Challenger Shield to Gwent rivals Newport at Eugene Cross Park.<\/p>\n
Ebbw won 34-33 after a late try by hooker Morris, his third of a dramatic afternoon to add to a penalty try and a score by centre Cameron Davies.<\/p>\n
Jason Strange’s side are eight points ahead of Cardiff with just two fixtures left to play in the regular season.<\/p>\n
Game of the round was at Church Bank as Llandovery and the Blue and Blacks scrapped for seedings and home advantage in the play-offs.<\/p>\n
A red card for Drovers scrum-half George MacDonald in the 15th minute for a tip tackle on Steffan Emanuel proved to be costly.<\/p>\n
Cardiff were leading 5-0 at the time and ran out 45-14 winners with their tries scored by centre Osian Darwin-Lewis (2), wings Dewi Cross and Tom Bowen, replacement back Joe Goodchild, flanker Ben Fry and loose forward Aled Ward.<\/p>\n
Full-back Tomi Lewis and centre Adam Warren scored for Llandovery, who are now fourth behind Newport after they successfully defended the Shield for the first time when beating Bridgend 35-20.<\/p>\n
Back-row forwards Kyle Tayler and Ben Roach, scrum-half Dafydd Buckland, wing Chay Foster-Smith and replacement hooker Henry Palmer scored tries for the Black and Ambers.<\/p>\n
Corey Lewis scored a double for the Ravens while his fellow hooker McKenzie Scales and wing Macauley Rowley also went over in the closing stages for a bonus point.<\/p>\n
RGC are aiming to avoid the wildcard round and moved into sixth courtesy of a 41-23 home win against Carmarthen Quins.<\/p>\n
The north Walians scored six tries through scrum-half Connor Dever, fly-half Billy McBryde, centre Delwyn Jones, wings Caio Parry and Sam Jones and prop Osian Burt.<\/p>\n
Aberavon piled the pain on bottom club Pontypool with a 38-14 win at the Talbot Athletic Ground.<\/p>\n
Scrum-half Scott Whitlock scored a hat-trick as Aberavon led 24-0 at the break, although Brad Roderick was shown a red card as half-time approached. Number eight Ashton Evans and full-back Scott Delnevo went over in the second half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Super Rygbi Cymru (SRC) leaders Ebbw Vale got back to winning ways by edging out Swansea at Dunvant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-500889","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\/500889","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=500889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}