West Wales U14 levelled the 2025 Origin Series at 1-1 after a dominant second half against East Wales in Merthyr on Saturday.
After being 22-10 up at half-time, West went on to win 48-16.
They started well after Jacob Maund try gave West Wales an early lead. Will Mordecai converted.
East then opened their account on 10 minutes through an unconverted Alfie Bailey try.
West increased their lead three minutes later when Lloyd Cokeley ran over 50 metres to score under the posts and Mordecai converted.
Again East back. Gabriel Benson ran over following a scrum and Morgan Jones converted.
But West went into the break 22-10 up after tries from Izak Aiono and Koby Rogers, the latter improved by Mordecai.
East’s skipper Danny Jones put them back in the game with a try after just three minutes in the second half. Morgan Jones converted.
After that, West took control. Maund extended their lead with an unconverted try. Two tries from Henry Davies followed with Mordecai converting the second of them.
Cokeley soon added his second try of the day with Caden Templar soon following him over. Mordecai converted both.
WEST WALES ORIGIN U14
1. Jacob Maund (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
2. Izak Aiono (Aberavon Fighting Irish)
3. Theo Thomas (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
4. Lloyd Cokeley (Swansea Rams)
5. Toby Williams (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
6. Harri Lloyd (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
7. Will Mordecai (vc) (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
8. Caden Templar (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
9. Henry Davies (Swansea Rams)
10. Reggie Lynch (Swansea Rams)
11. Kobe Rogers (Aberavon Fighting Irish)
12. Owen Prince (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
13. Ellis McGregor (c) (Cynon Valley Cavaliers)
14. Ioan Jones (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
15. Ashton Davies (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
16. Riley Burgess (Cynon Valley Cavaliers)
17. Nye Hopkins (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
18. Bowe Murray (Aberavon Fighting Irish)
19. Parker Morris (Cynon Valley Cavaliers)
20. Travis Evans (Cynon Valley Cavaliers)
EAST WALES ORIGIN U14
1. Morgan Jones (Torfaen Tigers)
2. Riley Williams (South Wales Saints)
3. Shane Small (Aber Valley Wolves)
4. Aaron Wait (South Wales Jets)
5. Lloyd Morgan (South Wales Jets)
6. Gabriel Benson (South Wales Jets)
7. Jac Thomas (Cardiff Blue Dragons)
8. Alfie Bailey (Cardiff Blue Dragons)
9. Mason Lloyd (vc) (South Wales Jets)
10. Jack Tennant (Torfaen Tigers)
11. Niall Mruk (Torfaen Tigers)
12. Rory Marsh (South Wales Jets)
13. Danny Jones (c) (Torfaen Tigers)
14. Cole Crimmins (South Wales Jets)
15. Cameron George (Aber Valley Wolves)
16. George Pronger (South Wales Jets)
17. Harry Evans (Aber Valley Wolves)
18. Samuel Harris (Torfaen Tigers)
19. Taylan Jones (South Wales Jets)
20. Louis Powell (Cardiff Blue Dragons)
The curtain-raiser between two development sides saw a rare shut-out as West Wales beat East Wales 54-0.
Charlie Thomas barged his way over for the opening try in under two minutes. Riley Allen converted. 6-0
Unconverted tries from Nico Miguel and Nathan Catley increased their lead to 14-0 with still only eight minutes played.
And that was the score at half-time. East tried to get back into the game multiple times but were stopped by the West defence on every occasion.
Just like in the first half, West scored in under two minutes, the try coming from Ben Whettleton with Allen converting.
Alex James followed that up with a clean break try from half-way with Allen improving again.
The scoring continued. Miguel completed his hat-trick with two further tries. Thomas got three more of his own and Whettleton added another, with Allen improving three times.
WEST WALES DEVELOPMENT U14
1. Jegan Diouf (c) (Swansea Rams)
2. Nico Miguel (Swansea Rams)
3. Nathan Catley (Swansea Rams)
4. Alex James (Swansea Rams)
5. Ollie Dowd (Swansea Rams)
6. Riley Allen (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
7. Samuel Phillips (Aberavon Fighting Irish)
8. Charlie Thomas (Swansea Rams)
9. Zak Wilcox (Swansea Rams)
10. Ethan Richardson (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
11. Elliot Butler-Jenkins (vc) (Swansea Rams)
12. Dray-Lee Williams (Bridgend Blue Bulls)
13. Ben Whettleton (Aberavon Fighting Irish)
Subs:
14. Danny Thomas (Swansea Rams)
15. Harrison Dyke (Aberavon Fighting Irish)
17. Alex Davies (Swansea Rams)
18. Jack Lerwell (Swansea Rams)
19. William Pincott Davies (Swansea Rams)
EAST WALES DEVELOPMENT U14
1. Hedd Simons (Torfaen Tigers)
2. Emrys Watkins (Torfaen Tigers)
3. Ashley Lloyd (vc) (Torfaen Tigers)
4. Zachary Weston (Cardiff Blue Dragons)
5. Alex Morris (Torfaen Tigers)
6. Evan Jenkins (c) (Cardiff Blue Dragons)
7. Joe Underwood (Torfaen Tigers)
8. William Humphreys (Torfaen Tigers)
9. Finley Wardman (South Wales Jets)
10. Tommy Godwin (Torfaen Tigers)
20. Fynly Thomas (South Wales Jets)
12. Aaron Rees (Cardiff Blue Dragons)
13. Theo Harding (Torfaen Tigers)
14. Roman Richards (Aber Valley Wolves)
15. Tom Cook Taylor (Unattached)
16. Theo Williams (Aber Valley Wolves)
17. Harry Brown (Unattached)
18. Dewi Savage (Torfaen Tigers)
