The opening quarter saw the home side territorially on top with their set scrum in the ascendancy.
Good interplay between Rhiannydd Morgan and Nerys Lloyd almost breached the visitors defence, but Morgan was brought down when almost clear. Unfortunately Phoenix had nothing to show for their opening efforts.
Penybanc opened the scoring through their pacey three-quarters who included several Ospreys and Scarlets regional players and led 0-7 thanks to a converted try by Brittony Price before a lengthy stoppage for injury occurred.
With a visitor’s player stretchered from the field with what appeared a serious injury the game resorted to passive scrums following the ambulance departure.
This negated the Phoenix momentum at scrum time and the visitors backs were now operating off the front foot and full of running. Within a minute of the restart Hannah Jones added a try and conversion to have Penybanc leading 0-14.
Phoenix hit back with Welsh International Melissa Clay breaking to within metres of the posts before the ball was recycled quickly and Zoe Reeves to her obvious delight scored her first try for Phoenix wide out.
Jones then got her second try to lead 5-19 before approaching half time Phoenix back row forward Amy Stevens kept her side in the match breaking a couple of tackles to score wide out, Seward adding a fine conversion before unfortunately having to leave the field with injury moments later. Penybanc led 12-19 at the break.
The visitors increased their lead with a penalty goal from Jones before Phoenix replacement Leanne Burnell threatened with her elusive running on a couple of occasions, however it was the visitors who took control during the final quarter adding a further three tries through some fine counter attacking play.
Cartin Rees raced over to score, and the conversion was made safe by Hannah Jones. After good turnover ball by Chloe Davies the ball was passed out to wing to Danielle Thompson who crossed the whitewash in the corner. Jones made a difficult conversion attempt look easy from the touch line.
With players visibly tiring at the pace of the game Beth Jones out on the wing out-paced the opposition with a touchline run from the Pencoed half to make the final score of the day
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