With only 14 boys travelling this was always going to be a tough trip. Merthyr opened the scoring with a try by Sam farrar - Evans and Ieuan price added another to leave Merthyr leading 10 - 7 at the interval. Merthyr added further try's through Adam Hoskins , pierce jones and Nathan jones, jones converting 2. The boys were in command At 29 -14 the game looked in the bag and the lads became complacent and left Newtown back in the game. They scored 3 try's in the last 10 minutes with the winning score being the last play. There were good performances from Jordan holdaway and Ryan viney.