CWMLLYNFELL were comfortable winners, to progress to the final of the Cromwell Evans Cup competition against a plucky Amman United effort at a rainswept Cwmaman Park on Wednesday night.

The die was cast as early as the first minute when Cwmllynfell, despite starting with just fourteen players due to late arrivals, fashioned an early strike when centre Kevin Jones' run punched holes in the Amman defence, allowing fellow-centre Paul Davies the opening to stride through and touch down for a try, converted by outside-half Steffan Rees.

Gavin Lewis and Stan Manning then combined for Amman, and their upfield surge ended with outside half Adrian Thomas, sitting in the pocket, dropping a neat goal. Centres Jones and Davies were in eyecatching form for Cwm all night, tearing holes in an overworked home defence, and, from Davies' umpteenth midfield break, Amman infringed, and Rees fired over the penalty.

Another backs' move from Cwm created further opportunities, and winger Gareth Cooper finished off a neatly worked move.

Paul Davies then sliced through the defence like a knife through butter to grab another visitors' try as they continued to dominate.

A silky break from Kev Jones then created an overlap and second row Chris Hunt powered over to touch down before halftime to ensure a convincing 29-3 advantage at the interval.

Amman, who included two youth products in Gavin Madge and Jamie Davies among the back line, battled away, tackling manfully, with Chris Rees, Lee Thomas, Ciaran Looney, Gavin Elliott and Dai Matthews in the thick of things, while Steve Morris impressed with a couple of excellent surging runs in the second half.

Amman brought on a few late new faces, including Richard Dunn and Stuart Davies, but the match petered out somewhat in the gloom with Cwmllynfell in the driving seat.

The Cwm backrow of Ashley Carter, Paul Skilton and skipper Jim Morgan got round the park to good effect and played well, and they should have scored again, but as Chris Hunt were for glory, he dropped the ball with a certain try at his mercy.

Seconds later, the inevitable try arrived when Cwmllynfell, pressing on the Amman tryline, turned the screw at a five metre scrum, and the pressure told, Amman taking it down, prompting the referee to award a penalty try.

Amman's young starlet Jamie Davies produced one superb jinking midfield run which almost produced the try of the night, but his endeavor was for no reward.