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Dragons Get Off to a Winning Start

Newport Gwent Dragons got their preparations for the season underway with a 66-0 win over the Gwent Premier XV at Pandy Park.

Kath McCarthy | 11/08/2006

Newport Gwent Dragons got their preparations for the season underway with a 66-0 win over the Gwent Premier XV at Pandy Park.

New signing for the Dragons Aled Brew clinched a hat-trick while Joe Bearman scored a brace.

Nic Fitisemanu impressed with his bulldozing runs while hooker Ben Daly was accurate in the lineout and also made his presence known in the loose.

The Dragons scored ten tries in total with new signing prop Lee Harrison from Glasgow also getting on the score sheet.

Ceri Sweeney looked sharp when he came on in the second half and quickly got on the try scoring sheet, Aled Brew claimed the second and third of his hat trick of tries while hooker Steve Jones completed the whitewash.

Gwent Premiership XV v Newport Gwent Dragons (Pandy Park, Cross Keys) - 09 August 2006

SCORING SEQUENCE
3 mins: Aled Brew Try 0-5; 4 mins: Aled Thomas Conversion 0-7; 14 mins: Joe Bearman Try 0-12; 16 mins: Bryn Griffiths Try 0-17; 17 mins: Aled Thomas Conversion 0-19; 22 mins: Peter Sidoli Try 0-24; 23 mins: Aled Thomas Conversion 0-26; 29 mins: Joe Bearman Try 0-31; 30 mins: Aled Thomas Conversion 0-33; 31 mins: Lee Harrison Try 0-38; 32 mins: Aled Thomas Conversion 0-40; Half Time 55 mins: Ceri Sweeney Try 0-45; 55 mins: Ceri Sweeney Conversion 0-47; 57 mins: Aled Brew Try 0-52; 58 mins: Ceri Sweeney Conversion 0-54; 67 mins: Aled Brew Try 0-59; 68 mins: Ceri Sweeney Conversion 0-61; 73 mins: Steve Jones Try 0-66

GWENT PREMIERSHIP XV
Ian George, Richard Wilkes, Richard Cornock, Scott Marasco, Adam Brown, Jack Liddiatt, David Tovey, Deri Mattravers, Harry Trelawney, James Dixon, Marcus Johnstone, Scott Williams, Ryan Howells, Scott Horner, Jonathan 'Utah' Williams
Replacements:

NEWPORT GWENT DRAGONS
David Maddocks, Ben Daly, Lee Harrison, Bryn Griffiths, Peter Sidoli, Joe Bearman, James Harris, Nic Fitisemanu, Alex Walker, Craig Warlow (c), Aled Brew, Shane Stewart, Nathan Brew, Matt Jess, Aled Thomas
Replacements: Ceri Sweeney for Craig Warlow (40), Andrew Hall for Joe Bearman (40), Steve Jones for Ben Daly (40), Gareth Maule for Shane Stewart (40), Gethin Robinson for David Maddocks (40), Lewis Evans for James Harris (40), Richard Fussell for Matt Jess (52), Gareth Baber for Alex Walker (62)

Try: Aled Brew (3), Joe Bearman (2), Bryn Griffiths, Ceri Sweeney, Lee Harrison, Peter Sidoli, Steve Jones Con: Aled Thomas (5), Ceri Sweeney (3)

Referee: Phil Fear (Wales)

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