It was 10-10 after a chaotic first half featuring two yellow cards apiece and plenty of missed opportunities for the Drovers.<\/p>\n
Euros Evans’ side should have hit the front in the sixth minute but fly-half Ioan Hughes trod on the dead-ball line when trying to ground the ball close to the posts.<\/p>\n
After penalties were traded, it was Ebbw that went over for the first try thanks to an 11-man driving line-out that led to hooker Corey Lewis going over.<\/p>\n
Drovers levelled when centre Rhodri Jones hit a hard line to power over but the visitors’ inefficiency in the 22 \u2013 and faltering line-out \u2013 meant that they failed to make the most of the wind at their backs.<\/p>\n
That theme continued in the second half until they eventually ground down the Ebbw defence, in which Canada flanker Sion Parry was a constant menace, for Doel to cross down the right.<\/p>\n
The wing then raced down the same flank straight from the restart after a superb break by livewire Scarlets full-back Jac Davies.<\/p>\n
Hughes converted to make it 22-10 but missed a penalty that would have made it a three-score game on the hour.<\/p>\n
Rees ensured that would not matter when he displayed footballing skills with both feet to go over from a loose ball for a 27-10 lead.<\/p>\n
The Steelmen, who edged a thriller with Newport to make the final, did not allow heads to drop but had to settle for being runners-up for the second season on the bounce after being scoreless in the second half.<\/p>\n
To add to their misery, lock Dylan Bartlett was sent off for a dangerous clear-out in the last minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was 10-10 after a chaotic first half featuring two yellow cards apiece and plenty of missed opportunities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-951361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116552730395828843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}