Newport……………….48
Ebbw Vale…………… 10
NEWPORT ensured they finished on top of the table with a seven-try rout of their Gwent rivals at a windswept Spytty Park.
Garin Harris led out the Newport side as he celebrated his 100th game for the Black & Ambers and had something to celebrate within two minutes as Will Griffiths went over for the first try.
Ewan Rosser replied for the Steelmen and Evan Lloyd's conversion briefly gave them the lead. But after that it was one-way traffic.
A penalty try for pulling down a driving maul sent Newport back in front and cost the visitors their prop Dave Whiting for ten minutes.
Smelling blood, the table-toppers made the most of their advantage as prop Lewis Smout went over from close range for a try that Will Reed converted.
Lloyd cut the deficit to seven points just before the break, but Josh Reid brought up the bonus point ten minutes into the second half and Reed added the conversion and a penalty to stretch the lead to 17 points.
Kyle Taylor, skipper Matt O'Brien and Ben Roach rounded things off with three more home tries. O'Brien also added a conversion as he took his points tally for the club to 925, the fifth highest in history.
Star man
Elliott Ferriman – Newport
