Narberth Youth 26 - Llangwm Youth 19

 Narberth and Llangwm youth teams produced a game to savour for a good-sized crowd at the Lewis Lloyd ground. Seven tries, a real commitment to play with ball in hand, several cards and lots of eye-catching rugby made for a very entertaining game.
 
Narberth deservedly took the spoils despite a Llangwm fightback from a 19-point deficit. The ability to consistently disrupt Llangwm possession and capitalise on mistakes was the foundation of Narberth’s success. Llangwm, despite showing great spirit and resolve in the second half, will again be kicking themselves for a slow start seeing them concede a big lead.
 
In contrast, Narberth made a fast start, going through multiple phases before flanker Charlie Reynolds, who stood out with his powerful ball-carrying, crashed over near the posts.  The conversion was slotted by Ashton O’Riordan who looked very assured, constantly threatening the Llangwm defence with his balanced running and marshalling his backline very well.
 
Llangwm built into the game but against a tenacious defence struggled to gain field position and threaten the Narberth line. The game ebbed and flowed with both teams being held up over the try line before Narberth added a second try through O’Riordan to lead 12-0 at half-time.
 
Five minutes into the second-half Llangwm were reduced to 14-men when Alfie Elrick saw red for an off the ball incident, their plight worsening soon after as Reynold claimed his second try, picking a great angle to breach the defence. Once again though, the Llangwm spirit shone through and a period of pressure ended with wing Josh Owen diving in at the corner to make the score 19-5. 
 
In a full-blooded encounter a few more skirmishes broke out, both sides trading yellow cards as the referee lost patience. Narberth took advantage of Llangwm being down to 13 players to claim a fourth try from the hard-working Joe Rimmer with O’Riordan converting to take Narberth into a 26-5 lead. But Llangwm were not done and they threw everything at Narberth to claw their way back into the contest.
 
Following a series of forward thrusts, Liam Miller took a short pass and burst over for an excellent score converted by Oscar Willington. As the clock ticked around to full-time, more pressure resulted in a third Llangwm try with Willington this time taking a short pass to burst over, converting his own try with the final kick of the game to see a final score of 26-19 to the Young Otters.
 
Report by Pembrokeshiresport.com