Principality Premiership round up

Pontypridd captain and No 8 Nathan Strong earned a red card for a short-arm tackle early in the first-half and Neath took full advantage to run in nine tries.
After their shock defeat to Glamorgan Wanderers on the opening weekend of the season, this was the result Rowland Phillips’ side needed.
Three tries in seven minutes hammered the nail into Pontypridd’s coffin and Full-back Aled Bevan slotted over six conversions, as the Welsh All Blacks cruised to the win.
Elsewhere, fly-half Craig Evans put the boot into his former club Llanelli to kick-start Cardiff’s season with a 36-24 win.
The 21-year-old punished his old team-mates with a 16-point haul and grabbed one of five Cardiff tries as they enjoyed a comfortable win.
Two early tries by flanker Gareth Gravell put the home side into a lead they never lost, but Llanelli fought back with second-half tries to Dan Evans, Craig Richards and replacement prop Ian Jones.
The Gwent derby was decided by Newport’s Dan Griffiths who kicked four penalties in their narrow 12-7 win over Ebbw Vale at Eugene Cross Park.
Wing Andrew Bevan got the Steelmen on the scoreboard early on with a try in the seventh minute, converted by scrum-half Brian Shelbourne.
But Newport stayed in touch through Griffiths and were only 7-3 behind at the break, before three second-half penalties saw the Black-and-Ambers home.
And Glamorgan Wanderers went down 33-29 at Swansea in a 10-try thriller, despite fly-half Mark Roper bagging a hat-trick of tries for the visitors.
Swansea flanker Marc Popham, younger brother of Wales No 8 Alix, grabbed tries either side of half-time.
Two tries from wing Gareth Holmes and three penalties from Luke Richards saw Maesteg home 29-15 against Bedwas.
Scrum-half Nick Griffiths was the hero for Bridgend as they put last week’s defeat at Ebbw Vale behind them, seeing off Cross Keys 35-13 in a one-sided game.
It was 14-0 at the break and tries by Mike Powell, Darren Simpson and Richard Radford added to the visitors misery.
Llandovery failed to back-up their 33-13 win over Pontypridd, going down 32-13 to Aberavon at home.
Full-back Liam Gadd, wing Richard Carter, flanker Simon Peters and hooker Chris Wells all grabbed tries for the Wizards as they out-scored the home side four tries to one.