Barry Youth made it three wins from three in Cardiff Division Two after beating Pontypridd 43-17.
The young Bombers ran in seven tries at Sardis Road to go eight points clear at the top of the division.
“Top of the league and unbeaten in 2026 is a nice reward for the players’ hard work,” said head coach Peter O’Sullivan.
The Bombers started the brighter, continuing their recent good form with a try inside the first 10 minutes following a blind side snipe from lively scrum half Morgan Beasley.
Fly half Cameron Hughes, fresh from his exploits playing for Gloucester U17s the week before, landed the first of his four conversions.
Pontypridd found it hard to get through a resolute Barry defence. Trying to get the ball wide in difficult conditions proved costly as inside centre and man-of-the-match George Strong intercepted on the halfway line and galloped in unopposed for the first of his two tries.
Hughes then showed some nice footwork as he danced his way past two defenders for the first of his two tries, and Barry were looking comfortable at 21-0. However, Pontypridd were not going to throw the towel, and battled their way up the field to score.
Despite Barry appearing to go off the boil a little bit, Strong powered his way over for his second try, but Ponty immediately replied, with some good work by their forwards making the interval score 12-28. Ponty started the second half stronger, their third try cutting the deficit to 11 points.
Barry, looking nervous, made a couple of substitutions and after some stern words from forwards coach James Hadfield, the players responded.
Captain Rhys Behrens forced his way over to regain the 16-point advantage, followed by Hughes’ second score - a superb team try - with some particularly good handling that put a big smile on backs coach Rhodri Thomas’ face.
Barry made more changes in the closing stages, but they kept the momentum up and had the last word with left wing Austin Cafferey diving in at the corner.
“Today wasn’t perfect,” said O’Sullivan. “We started and finished well, but need to work on keeping the intensity up for the full 70 minutes because we went off the boil either side of half-time and it could have cost us.”
*Barry RFC host a double header on Saturday, with both the First and Youth teams in action at the Reservoir Field. The youth team’s league match against Llandaff kicks off at 1.30pm, with the first team’s Admiral League fixture against St Albans kicking off one hour later.
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