Cwmbran under 8's hosted Monmouth for their first game of the year. Monmouth opened up the scoring with three tries in the first half. Despite some excellent tagging from captain Joel Doughty, Harvey Baxter and Jack Maloney. During the second half Lewis Bates scored for Cwmbran by running almost the length of the pitch, he soon followed it up by scoring his second try. Making the score 3 - 2 to Monmouth. In the dying seconds Cwmbran were on the attack which resulted in Luke Saunders scoring the equalizing try. A good performance by both teams. Man of the match went to Luke Saunders.