The inexperience of the developing Narberth Youth side showed as they allowed mistakes to gift points to visiting Crymych on Friday evening in an exciting encounter at the Lewis Lloyd ground. The fired-up and well-drilled Crymych side got off to a dream start when they charged down a clearance kick to bag five points after just three minutes. The Young Otters recovered quickly, with the pack more than holding their own in all areas, other than the lineout against renowned opponents. The backline, though, lacked its usual fluidity, with promising moves breaking down too often. Despite battling hard and threatening the visitors' line on a couple of occasions, the young Otters suffered another self-inflicted blow after 20 minutes when a clearance kick was again charged down in almost identical circumstances to concede try number two. Shortly afterwards, a loose kick from inside the Narberth 22 was gathered infield and moved wide to outpace the defence to give the visitors a 17 points to nil lead at half-time. Narberth performed much better in the second half, with the pack driving their opponents back on a number of occasions and winning strikes against the head in the scrum, where the front row of Gareth Jones, Paul Brown and Dan Adams performed particularly well. Also prominent throughout the game was the back row trio of Rion Whatmore, Richard Sharpe-Williams and man-of- the-match Simon Griffiths. With 10 minutes on the clock, an improved lineout won clean possession that was quickly moved along the backs to produce the best try of the night as Gethin Salter cut through at pace from fullback to make yards before offloading to winger Paul Beddis to score in the corner. On two more occasions exciting back moves looked promising, but narrowly failed to put more points on the board. Crymych then capitalised on a positional error in the home defence to cross for another try with the final move of the game that gave them a margin of victory that did not truly reflect the balance of play. The young Otters can take heart from another determined performance in which the defence was often immense, but where inexperience was also evident at times. The game was well refereed by Adrian Slade. Tomorrow (Saturday), Narberth Youth take on league leaders Pembroke at home with a 2.30 kick- off. Narberth team: Gethin Salter, Kevin Symmonds, Dan Davies, Rory Bennett, Mike Nicholas, Sam Macnaghton, Tom Parsells, Rion Whatmore, Richard Sharpe-Williams, Simon Griffiths, Johnny Manns, Tom Dinan, Dan Adams, Paul Brown, Gareth Jones, Paul Beddis, Gareth Beynon and Adam Lewis.
