Saturday 1st September 2007

Newtown 6 CAERNARFON 64

CAERNARFON will be high on confidence already after opening the season with a 10-try super show at Newtown on Saturday.

The Cofis have had a tough time at the Recreation Ground in the past but they made no mistake at the weekend as they controlled the game from start to end to claim a first WRU League Division Four North win.

Caernarfon were full of attacking intent, with the forwards offering plenty of support and they wasted no time in scoring their first try, Gwilym Hendy setting up his brother Gethin Hendy for a touchdown in the corner.

The second arrived quickly afterwards when Rhys Evans controlled the ball well at the base of the scrum to score a pushover try.

Newtown had their moments too, causing the visitors to infringe and that led to a spell in the sin bin for flanker Paul Rowlands.

The hosts took advantage of their numbers, full back Danny Hill kicking two penalties.

However, the Cofis were the team on top and further tries came via outside half Kelvin Morris – who kicked three conversions during the first half – and wing Hywel Iorwerth.

Going into the second half with a 34-6 lead, Caernarfon were firmly in charge of the match and picked up where they had left off at the re-start.

Allen Mark claimed two well-taken tries, the second of which was down in large part to good work by forwards Rhys Thomas and Owain Parry.

Young Gethin Hendy added two further touchdowns to complete an impressive hat-trick and man-of-the-match Rhys Evans claimed his second five-pointer.

Debutant winger Rhydian Jones put Newtown out of their misery with Caernarfon’s final try, finishing off an excellent move.

Morris successfully kicked three of his side’s conversions during the second period.