Cup Quarters Round Up

By Lestyn (06/04/03)
April 6 2003

The big match of the round was Cardiff hosting Ponty, and We've got reports from both club's. The other matches were all quite one sided and went pretty much as We expected.

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  • On Friday night Cardiff and Ponty played out a thriller at the Arms Park. The game only really got going when the blue and blacks were reduced to thirteen men, Jamie Robinson continuing His return from injury to dive over and score in the corner. Ponty had gone into the lead through Gareth Baber's first half try.

    Ryan Powell a player largely ignored by Steve Hansen setup Rhys Williams with a great break, Martyn Williams got the third. Ponty had two shocking referring decisions go against them, Gethin Jenkins and Richard Parks had perfectly good tries ruled out , before man of the match Michael Owen crossed, but it proved to little too late.

    Cardiff Match Report l Ponty Match Report
     
  • S4C's live game saw Llanelli thrash Neath, and in truth the Scarlets didn't really leave first gear. New Wales number eight Dafydd Jones took advantage of a defensive error by Shane Williams, in the opening minutes to start the romp. However Gareth Morris pulled the scores level with a well taken score.

    Simple line out work from the home side, saw Dafydd Jones get another. Matthew J Watkins sprinted nearly 60 metres to increase the gap between the sides just before half time. A try shortly after the interval from Barry Davies ended the game as a contest, the full back collected Stephen Jones's chip ahead. Late Tries from the Turks backs rubbed salt into Neath wounds.
     
  • I certainly wouldn't like to be a Swansea fan at the moment. The All Whites having been forced to release several key players over the last few week's, continued their depressing season with a hammering at Bridgend.

    Although in fairness they did compete for most of the match, they were only down 23-20 in the opening minutes of the second half, but thing's started to go down hill rapidly. A charged down Arwel Thomas kick fell to Maama Molitika and the gap opened up. Two late tries increased the margin even more.
     

  • The big Gwent provincial trial, or otherwise known as the Newport / Ebbw Vale Gwent derby went to the side in black and amber. A hatrick of tries from Fijian wing Luke Nabaro in the second half was enough to send them through to the semi's. Ebbw managed tries through Meenan and Shelbourne.

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    Principality Cup Quarter Finals

    Cardiff 20-18 Pontypridd
    Bridgend 48-25 Swansea
    Ebbw Vale 20-41 Newport
    Llanelli 49-17 Neath

    Principality Cup Semi Final Draw
    *Both ties will be played at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday
     19 April

    Newport v Bridgend
    Cardiff v Llanelli

    Welsh National League First Division

    Aberavon 56-9 Blackwood
    Bedwas 51-12 Bonymaen
    Cross Keys 39-26 Llanharan
    Glamorgan Wanderers 19-44 Narberth
    Llandovery 12-44 Carmarthen Quins
    Pontypool 57-5 Beddau
    Tondu 13-30 Newbridge
    Tredegar 61-14 Treorchy
    Whitland 39-12 Rumney
     

 
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