Pontypridd XV 7 Newport XV 41

Thursday March 27th

Both teams fielded a mixture a mixture of A & B players; leaving out their eight East Wales final triallists. With five of our A team pack in the East Wales squads, this favoured the Newport team whose pack were stronger and in the wet slippery conditions dominated the game from the start.
There was some good play individually from the home team, which included nine Year Five players, but on the whole there is much room for improvement, particularly in defence, where we allowed Newport too much time and freedom to run.
Dewi Cross was Pontypridd's only scorer when he converted his own try with the last move of the match.
Team; 1 Evan Holmes, 2 Liam Dando, 3 Sean Grainger, 4 Liam Malkin, 5 Jack Archer, 6 Dion Mota, 7 Dafydd Smith, 8 Dewi Matthews, 9 Daniel Coles, 10 Dewi Cross, 11 George Harris, 12 Jac Smith,(captain)13 Louis Baker, 14 Dylan Hughes, 15 Dafydd LLoyd, 16 Tyler Morgan, 17 Aneurin Wlaker, 18 Calyde Mullock.