ANOTHER resounding victory at home on Saturday sees Brecon sitting proudly on top of the table in League 1 East.
They recorded their fourth bonus point win of the season. Brecon were in outstanding form as they put Ynysybwl to the sword by 66-6 at Parc de Pugh. The home team sored ten tries, which helped with the points difference and sees them top the table over Brynmawr who have also won every game this season with a try bonus point. The two sides meet this Saturday in Brynmawr.
Brecon started well and gained early dominance at the first scrum pushing the visitors off the ball on their put in. This domination at the scrum continued throughout the first half. The dominant scrum led to Brecon’s opening try. A penalty gave the home teaam a lineout on the 22. It was executed perfectly and set up a drive to within 5 metres of the line before the ball was moved wide through crisp and accurate handling putting Adam Hoskins.
Brecon’s second came from a turnover on their own 22 when the ball was moved quickly to full back Hoskins who immediately identified the space and fully exploited it before drawing the defender and feeding winger Jake Crockett who offloaded to captain Ewan Williams in the tackle to finish off a great counter attack. Dean Gunter kicked the conversion to give Brecon a lead of 12-0 after 18 minutes.
Ynysybwl replied with two penalties before Brecon added a third try. Tom Daley caught an overthrown lineout from the visitors and strongly carried. Further crisp passing between forwards and backs put second row Mark Squirell over. Gunter added the conversion.
The 10 deftly released Lucas Jones with an inside pass and his break split the defence before he passed to Eifion Jones to finish off a fantastic try under the posts.
Winger Jones raced in from the visitors 22 to score under the posts for his first and would complete his hattrick in the second half.
Injuries to the visitors’ front row meant the game moved to passive scrums with the home side leading 33-6 having secured the try bonus point. Jake Crockett claimed a brace to make the score 59-6.
Brecon saved their best try for last, this came straight from the kick off and after some slick handling to get Hoskins in to the outside channel, he outsprinted the defenders and eventually fed an inside pass to Richie Elliott who ghosted past three defenders with a mazey run to finish under the posts. Dean Gunter converted to make the final score 66-6.
Brecon paid credit to the relatively young Ynysybwl side that, despite injuries during the game, kept battling.