Torfaen Tigers, all bar the shouting, qualified for the WRL Wheelchair Development League Grand Final on Saturday after a club record win, cruising 74-8 at Swindon St George.
The win margin could have been larger, but Jamie Reynolds only managed to kick seven conversions from 15 attempts.
It means that the unbeaten Torfaen would have to lose heavily in their final three games to not partake in the showpiece event in Wrexham on Saturday 25th October.
Torfaen have ten competition points with a point difference of 204. North Wales Crusaders, six competition points and Cardiff Blue Dragons, four, can still both overtake them, but for Cardiff to do so, it will mean a big turnaround as they are currently on a points difference of minus 106.
Jamie’s father Jason Reynolds gave Torfaen the lead with a try in the third minute. Dane Oram soon followed him over, with Jamie converting before racing away for the third try.
Parker Golden was tackled on the line as he tried to score but eventually, they did get a fourth, through Scott Trigg-Turner, with Jamie again adding the goal to make the score 20-0.
After winning a penalty near to the Torfaen line, Swindon struck back through an unconverted try from Andy Houghton.
But Torfaen went into half-time, 34-4 to the good. Jamie scored two further tries to complete his hat-trick, converting the second of them. He then created the next try, lobbing the ball superbly for Trigg-Turner to catch and score in the corner.
Leighton Morris scored the first two tries of the second half. Jamie converted the first to put the score onto 44-4.
The half-century came straight away when Jason scored under the sticks and his son converting.
Morris scored three more tries and Jamie another, as well as two further goals to put the score onto 70-4, but Swindon did get another try back through loan player Libbie Sargent, who couldn’t convert.
It all ended with Trigg-Turner completing proceedings with an unconverted try.
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North Wales Crusaders are hot favourites to face the Tigers in the final after doing a demolition job on Cardiff Blue Dragons, winning 72-16.
Matthew Turner picked up a kick to score a first minute try for Crusaders that he converted himself. An unconverted Fionn McCabe try put the score onto 10-0.
It was soon 20-0 as Stephen Halsey went over for the next two tries and Turner added another goal.
Turner added his side’s next two tries, improving both, before his father Martin Turner got in on the act with Crusaders’ seventh. His son added the extras.
Halsey completed his hat-trick with five minutes remaining in the first half with Matthew converting to put the half-time score onto 44-0.
Stuart Williams scored Crusaders’ first try of the second half with Ethan Neilson getting the next.
Cardiff finally got over the board 13 minutes into the second half through a Lee Sargent try, which his younger sister and captain Libbie Sargent couldn’t convert.
McCabe soon added his second and Crusaders’ 11th try of the day, before Cardiff scored two more tries back, both through Anthony Pennell with Lee Sargent converting both, his father Paul Sargent coming onto the pitch as a substitute by this time, with mum Alana Sargent coaching.
But Crusaders finished the game on a high. Williams scored two more tries to complete his hat-trick. McCabe improving the second before scoring the next try and converting again.
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