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Newbridge brothers give Mountain Ash trying time

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The Davies brothers combined to give Newbridge a flying start in Round 1 of the main competition in the WRU Plate as they both scored tries in a 34-13 home win over Mountain Ash.

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Matthew and Dan Davies joined Stuart Vokes, Jakob Duffy and Mike Preece in securing a bonus-point victory. Eamon Rees converted three of the five tries and also added a penalty, while the visitors had tries from Curtis Williams and Ewan Rees and a penalty from Callum Hall.

It was plain sailing for another Division 1 East team as Brecon went to Cardiff and dished out a 20-0 beating to St Joseph’s. Jake Crockett and Ioan Edwards crossed for the visitors tries and Jake Newman kicked 10 points.

Newcastle Emyln were in charge throughout of their 19-12 home win over Rhydyfelin as Dean James, Andrew Wynne and Llyr Davies crossed for tries and Sean Leonard added two conversions. Meanwhile, Gowerton clung on to win a thriller against Llangennech, 27-26 and Aberystwyth made home advantage pay as they beat Bonymaen 29-22.

In Division 1 East, Dowlais overpowered Senghenydd 29-12. Victory allowed tghe hoime side to move up to seventh courtesy of tries from Nathan Pritchard, Daniel Butler, Luke Price, Chad Thomas and a standout try by Sam Davies who intercepted a Senghenydd pass and ran 60 metres to touch down.

In Division 1 West, Birchgrove beat Brynamman 34-15 to move within three points of second place. Josh Jarrett was in fine form, scoring two tries and converting two. The standout try was from Darren Poland who broke from 50 metres and cut across the midfield to score at the posts.

In the first round of the WRU Bowl, Fairwater went to Haverfordwest and won 18-5 and Tumble clung on to win 29-27 at St Clears. Bryncethin won 24-12 at Machynlleth.

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