Cardigan 15-3 Newcastle Emlyn (From Western Telegraph)

Cardigan 15-3 Newcastle Emlyn

8:00pm Wednesday 1st February 2012 in Sport

Division three west - MATCHES between Cardigan and Newcastle Emlyn are traditionally hard-fought and this one was no exception.

The Teifisiders avenged a narrow 18-20 defeat in Emlyn with a win at the King George Vth Ground.

On this occasion there were no tries in a sometimes-feisty clash. It was Cardigan outside half Iestyn Crompton who dropped a goal and added four penalties against his former team-mates to give his side the bragging rights over their neighbours for a few weeks.

Crompton opened the scoring with his neatly dropped goal and added four penalties as hooker Dan Martin played really well up front and scrum half Matthew Roebuck, still a youth prospect playing on permit from Crymych, looked sharp at the base of the scrum. Crompton and full back Mike Diggle tried hard to keep their pack going with some good tactical kicking and all Emlyn could muster in response was a single penalty from Leigh McKenna as the first half ended with Cardigan deservedly 15-3 in front.

The second half was described by one onlooker as ‘nondescript’ and tensions rose on occasions so that it was a stop-start affair. But Cardigan were good value for a victory which ended their recent short run of disappointing results.