Coleg Sir Gar caused the biggest upset of the sevens season so far when they turned over hot favourites Millfield 26-19 to win the Llandovery Invitation Sevens, writes Huw S Thomas.

The Somerset school had already won the Royal Welsh Regiment and Marches Sevens in decisive fashion and came to Church Bank with high hopes of making it a hat-trick of consecutive wins at Llandovery.

But the defending champions were hit out of their confident stride by the hounding and harassing of the Sir Gar side led by Sion Edwards.

They forced Millfield into uncharacteristic errors but also had the trickery and pace to convert their own possession into points.

Player of the Tournament little Tom Neale sidestepped and dummied his way upfield and both Gareth Gibby and Gwion Jones had the speed to finish off chances.

Gibby, Edwards, Jones and Steffan James got the tries in the 26-19 win and although Millfield got three tries – two to Hadley Tucker and one to Josh Bayliss – they surprisingly lacked their usual composure.

Hosts Llandovery College were well fancied but failed to make an impression, well beaten 40-14 by Coleg Y Cymoedd in the round of the last 16.

Apart from wing Josh Hodson - the scorer of two tries against Cymoedd - they looked short of pace and any invention in the absence of their best sevens player Harry Randall.

Cymoedd who were strongly fancied to get to the final lost to Sir Gar 32-19 in the semis.

The only local school to make the quarter finals was Llandeilo’s Bro Dinefwr who were unbeaten in their pool and then outplayed Dyffryn Taf 31-7 with tries from Dan Davies (two), Josh Herman, Harry Lloyd and George David before being outpowered by Coleg Sir Gar 39-0.

Skipper Steffan Roberts had a good tournament but wing Harry Lloyd was their stand-out player scoring tries in all four games before the defeat by Sir Gar.

Carmarthen’s Bro Myrddin were unlucky not to qualify from a very tough pool but made up for it by winning the Plate in some style.