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In a reversal of the scheduled league fixture, Ystradgynlais visited South Road with hopes high but leaving on the end of the Seaweeds best performance of the season to date.
The score doesn’t reflect the vigorous effort put in by the visitors early on and it was fully 25 minutes of probing by Porthcawl before they opened the score-sheet with Josh White’s 25 metre penalty for 3-nil.
Flanker Jake Furness was his usual workmanlike self and he duly provided a scoring pass for centre Sean Wilcox to score a good try five minutes later, with White converting and 10-0.
Flanker Louis Protheroe, having moved up to the First XV showed hints back to the exploits of his Dad Steve, as he crossed for another try to make it 15-nil at the break.
Wing Jake Thomas has been in fine form this season so far and he continued his try-scoring run, crossing for a super right corner try, White’s magnificent conversion off touch improving for 22-nil and the match seemed to already be slipping away from the visitors with only ten  minutes of the second half gone.
Thomas repeated the feat minutes later for his second try, making it seven tries in 3 matches and with White’s boot again adding the extras, at 29 without reply the result and bonus point was in the bag.
Skipper Leon McNally can always be relied on to produce a good performance and when he produced an audacious interception to slice clean through the middle form 40 metres to cross at the posts, with White again converting, the 36-nil score was no more than the Seaweeds’ unrelenting pressure deserved.
Louis Protheroe was revelling in the role of being the newest of the back-row boys, by getting his brace try wide out with an outrageous dummy and again White’s conversion was unerring as the score hit the final 43-nil mark.
Porthcawl also welcomed back Tom Butcher and Jack Hurry from injury and it was good to see Owen Thomas and Gareth Rees making their first starts of the campaign off the bench.     
On Friday evening the Club welcomes World Cup Final Ref DEREK BEVAN and Wales and Lions  back-rower RICHARD WEBSTER for a Rugby World Cup evening before taking on Seven Sisters at South Road on Saturday, in search of a fourth consecutive victory.