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Brecon RFC Under 15s
Sunday 28th February 2010
Brecon
RFC 37 - Treharris RFC 5
Brecon
into Blues Cup Semifinal
Brecon
were at home to Treharris in the quarter-final of the Blues Cup. On
a cold but dry morning in the opening minutes the visitors looked
dangerous in midfield where Brecon took a a little time to settle
down. Soon, however, after a period of powerful forward play, a clean
service,
a line-break in the centre by Richie Elliott and excellent interpassing
among the home backs released Luke Bowen on the wing to run in
Brecon's first try. An action replay followed within minutes and Bowen
was away
again for his second score.
The Brecon pack was in fearsome form in the scrum and, following one
especially successful drive, again swift linking enabled Elliott to embark
on a typical curving run; he was well tackled inches short; another scrum
followed and Number 8 Jonathan James burst away and popped the ball to
Arran Games to put Brecon 15 points ahead. The tally rose to twenty when
Games was tackled and offloaded to Jake Thompson who took the tackle
and hooker Ryan Jones picked up to score a well deserved try; Bowen converted;
score 22 - nil.
The margin widened when Robson Blake, not for the first or last time,
broke free; he passed to Games who kicked long and forced the Treharris
defence to concede a lineout; a short throw to Cellan Harris brought
another try. Bowen then scored perhaps his best try, running from his
own ten yard line to touch down and finally Elliott rounded off another
threequarter assault with Brecon's last try
Treharris had stuck manfully to the task of surviving against the onslaught
and eventually had the last laugh when they scored a neat try on the
blind side of a scrum, Brecon's Achilles Heel once more. The final score
was 37 - 5.
Unfortunately injuries among the Treharris forwards forced the referee
to declare scrums to be uncontested for a fairly long period; this to
some degree acted against Brecon, since their superiority up front was
a bit neutralised, insofar as Treharris were thus sure of possession
in the scrum on their own put-in, which certainly had not been so before
the change.
The performance of the forwards was out of the top drawer in this match
and Tom Rowlands provided a neat and imaginative link to the fast men
outside him. A little more tidiness in midfield would not go amiss, but
the semifinal should hold no fears for Brecon.
Referee: Mr Alan Taylor.
Brecon RFC Under 15 team: Rhodri Boggast; Rhodri
Owen (Rhys Davies), Richie Elliott, Dylan Lockwood, Luke Bowen; Arran
Games, Tom Rowlands;
Robson Blake, Ryan Jones (Ieuan Jones), Cellan Harris; Jake Thompson,
Zac Thompson; Eifion Phillips, Tom Lewis (capt.); Jonathan James
(Nick Dixon).
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