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Maesteg Celtic travelled to Morriston with a number of changes due to injury and late withdrawals. Celtics usual experienced front row was replaced with Ryan Shearan returning from a long injury, hooker Morgan Reeves and nineteen year old Tom Rees playing his first game for the senior team. The smaller Celtic pack had difficulty in the scrums and the break downs. Morriston controlled possession and territory for most of the first half. Celtics defence was amazing. The home team ran at the visitors constantly but the three quarter line of centres Lee Arthur, Kristian Jenkins and back three Aaron Williams, Morgan Lloyd and Sam Mines left no gaps for them to run through.

            Morriston took the lead when a poor kick into their half allowed them to counter attack at pace across field and their speedy wing crossed in the corner for a converted try. On one of the rare occasions that Celtic took play into the home territory, Man of the Match number eight Ryan Turner broke through the defence and made ground. The ball came to scrum half Liam Healy who found full back Morgan Lloyd arriving at pace on the blind side. Lloyd drew the defence before putting wing Sam Mines clear to score. Outside half Tom George converted from wide out. Later George kicked a penalty to the home 22 and the forwards repeatedly drove at the defence. The referee awarded a penalty in front of the posts which George converted.

            Celtic began the second half well. Scrum half Liam Healy sprinted through the defence on half, way drew the cover defence, and then put wing Sam Mines clear to run in his second try. Celtic were then disrupted by injury. Healy was forced to retire and was replaced by centre Lee Arthur who suffered a clash of heads and had to go to hospital with a bad cut. Full back Morgan Lloyd took over as third scrum half.

Morriston closed the gap in the scores with another long range counter attack which resulted in a converted try. They continued to go for the win but had no answer to the well organised defensive line that faced them. Kieran Power, Rhys Bevan Jones, Bleddyn Griffiths, Jonathan Davies and Ryan Turner drove them back ferociously. The visitors sealed the game with a textbook Celtic try. Tom George kicked a penalty into the home 22. Hooker Morgan Reeves found jumper Kieran Power in the lineout and the pack drove the ball over the try line for top scorer, flanker, Jonathan Davies to score yet again. Resolven home next week.