The Rodney Parade region are out-of-reach at the top of pool three after they clinched victory in a 10 try-thriller at Kingston Park. Five first-half scores kept the Falcons at arm’s length, though four second-half tries from the Falcons gave them a fighting chance of qualifying as best runners-up.
Tom Catterick fired the hosts in-front after three minutes after they sent an early statement of intent, winning a penalty with a powerful scrum. But Lyn Jones’ men roared back to take the lead five minutes later with a try from dual-contracted prospect Morgan.
The Falcons overthrew a close-range lineout and Jonathan Evans set his side on the attack. Nic Cudd combined with Jack Dixon before Morgan ghosted outside Tom Penny to score.
Morgan threatened again with a short-range drive which forced Alex Mayhew to slow the ball down and John Lacey sent him to the sin-bin.
The referee was in the thick of it again from the resulting lineout. The Dragons drove for the line and he awarded a penalty try for offside at the maul. It was more of the same three minutes later when Coombs was shunted over from a close-range lineout.
Tom Prydie hit his third conversion to take the Dragons points tally to 21 whilst the Falcons back-row man Mayhew was in the sin-bin. Amos bagged the bonus-point moments later, but Morgan was the architect as he beat Penny and Simon Hammersly before he offloaded to the Wales full-back, who tip-toed down the line to score.
Amos setup Landman with a deft offload for the fifth to take the half-time score to 35-3.
Socino and Harris crossed just after the break to give the Falcons a sniff of a famous comeback but it was that man Amos who got the decisive score.
Will Welch rumbled over for the Falcons third as they went in search of the two losing bonus-points that would keep them in the competition. Andy Saull snatched a late bonus point to keep the Falcons in the competition, ahead of their trip to Romania to face Bucharest Wolves next week.
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