photo by Ian Lovell

The Tigers secured second spot in the Conference and along with a guaranteed home fixture in the play-offs with a 36-28 win over the NPT Steelers at Port Talbot.

Ed Tooley got the scoring underway for the home side before the Tigers responded with tries from Craig Sulway and Craig Jones; Gareth Jenkins converted the first.  

In this seesaw half both teams added scores firstly by Gareth Moore for the Steelers followed by, Wales A International, Jason Hill for the Tigers. 

The Steelers then produced the try of the game from Rhodri Milsom who picked up the ball on his own line and ran the length of the pitch to touch down.  Conversions added by Daniel Blethyn and Gareth Jenkins levelled the scores at 16 apiece.

The Tigers then took a stranglehold on the game with a pair of tries shortly before half time.  Matthew Davies and Scott Bendon touched down with Jenkins converting one bringing the score to 26-16 at the break.

The Steelers opened up the second half the same fashion as the first, this time Gareth Moore touched down to get his second of game with Blethyn adding the extras.  The Tigers responded with two more of their own both by Gareth Davies one of which was converted by Jenkins.

The Steelers picked up a consolation try shortly before the final whistle as Matthew Roberts slid in to take the final score to 28-36.

article by Mark Harris
7 July 2007