A North Wales wooden spoon was on the line at Bryn Estyn Road where the Division Five’s bottom teams battled out a scrappy, niggly game.
Wrexham 8 v Pwllheli 19
Pwllheli won to virtually ensure Wrexham will finish bottom of the table but both are already doomed to relegation so it was purely a matter of local pride.
But a poor quality game was littered with mistakes and frequent punch-ups, the last of which brought the sending off of Wrexham hooker Adam Bellis five minutes from the end.
By then Pwllheli were in the driving seat having established a lead they never looked like losing.
They were under the cosh for most of the first 40 minutes as Wrexham’s forwards hammered away at them but Pwllheli had a happy knack of scoring every time they got in to home territory.
Full back Richard Jones kicked a penalty offence to get them on the board and they added a try when winger John Williams beat Wrexham full back Anthony Lang to a kick ahead, hacked on and scored easily for Jones to convert.
Wrexham hit back with a penalty by centre Ross Roberts but two more Wrexham lineout offences brought two more Jones penalties as Pwllheli turned around 15-3 ahead.
The second half became increasingly bad tempered and the standard of rugby fell even further.
Wrexham did launch hopes of a revival when flanker Cari Turner scored after a period of fierce forward pressure but Roberts mnissed the conversion.
Back came Pwllheli and a searing break by centre Huw Evans set up a good position and when Wrexham were penalised at a scrum Jones kicked his fourth penalty to nail down the win.
Scorers:
Wrexham - Try C Turner, Pen R Roberts.
Pwllheli - Try J Williams; Con R Jones; Pens R Jones (4)
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