Davies who is the league’s leading try scorer, was carried off after 55 minutes of their 32-20 victory over Connacht on Sunday. But the in-form scrum-half, who has nine tries this season, has only suffered a dead leg and should be available for the Scarlets’ final four games.
“He has a dead leg, which hopefully won’t keep him out for too long,” said Easterby.
“It was a nasty one and the initial reaction was to make sure we got him off. The early consideration was that it might have been a break but, in his words, it was ‘a mental dead leg’.”
The Scarlets consolidated their sixth place position after beating their nearest rivals Connacht in a game which saw eight tries scored, and Easterby is hoping to continue in the same vein.
“We have got to get as many points as we can and finish as high as we can and, at the moment, qualification for Europe is in our own hands,” added Easterby.
“We probably missed a few chances to get our fourth try earlier than we did and put the game beyond them. I thought we brought good tempo, we looked threatening at times, particularly from deep. We had spoken in the week about wanting to get tempo into our game and we showed that.”
The Scarlets raced into a 13-6 half-time lead thanks to a try from Welsh international Jonathan Davies and they continued their dominance after the break, with Gareth Davies and Josh Turnbull both touching down to extend the West Walian’s advantage to 25-6.
However, Connacht staged a late fight back with three tries in five minutes, Kieran Marmion, Fionn Carr and Robbie Henshaw crossing for the men from Gallway.
Gareth Maule stretched over the line to give the Scarlets some breathing space, but Eoin McKeown grabbed a late try to give Connacht two losing bonus points with the final score 32-30 to the hosts.
