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Fighting Irish 34 Tigers 31
Aberavon survive late tiger attack
Aberavon Fighting Irish survived a late three-try flourish from Torfaen Tigers to consolidate their second place position in the Total RL.com Welsh Rugby League Conference.

The visitors took the lead in the fifth minute through a Lloyd Burns try only for Aberavon's Richard Morris to equalise five minutes later.

Torfaen regained the lead with two scores in the next five minutes, first with a Matt Penney field goal, then a Craig Jones try. But Aberavon hit back three minutes later as Gary Vaughan pounced on a Torfaen knock-on to run the length of the field before passing to Gary Vaughan who touched down. Liam Gadd converted to give Aberavon a 10-9 lead.

Torfaen's Jason Hill was sin binned for fighting just two minutes later. Aberavon took advantage of the extra man during
 

the next ten minutes to score twice. First David Felton wriggled over the line then three minutes later Gadd also grounded. Gadd converted both to give the hosts a 22-9 half-time lead.

Torfaen struck after 49 minutes when Jones scored his second try, but they were unable to build on this as they were thwarted by the tight Irish defence.

Turning defence into attack, the Irish scored twice in five minutes. First on 65 minutes, Ceri Thomas burst through the defence, then on 69, Gadd pounced on his own chip past the Tigers defence to make the score 34-13.

However Torfaen refused to lie down and fought their way back with three tries in the last nine minutes as Damien Smith, Jason Hill and Steffan Jones all grounded. With Penney converting all three, Aberavon scraped home 34-31.

Article by Ian Golden
10 Jul 2004

 



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