NARBERTH travelled to Maesteg Quins with a relatively young and inexperienced team due to unavailability of players attending a wedding.
In the warm up wing Aled Rees turned over his ankle and took no part in the match and was replaced by Will Hughes starting his first league match for the Otters.
Despite these setbacks Narberth were first on the board with a penalty kicked by full back Nick Gale.
Quins replied with a penalty kicked by their fly half and then increased their lead with a further penalty for a Narberth infringement at a ruck (6-3).
Quins were putting Narberth under a lot of pressure and from a quickly taken penalty by their scrum half the ball was moved to their centre who ran through a gap in the Narberth defence and scored under the posts. The try was converted (13-3).
Both teams defences then held firm and there was no further scoring before half time. In the second half Narberth had the advantage of the wind but within the first five minutes the Quins centre intercepted a long Narberth pass and again ran in under the posts to stretch the score to 20-3.
This seemed to galvanise the Otters into action and after continued pressure near the Quins line wing Ashley Sutton scored in the corner to reduce the deficit. The try was unconverted.
Minutes later the ball was again moved wide to Sutton and after charging down the wing his kick ahead was collected by supporting scrum half George MacDonald who scored a try wide out which again went unconverted but brought the score back to 20-13.
Shortly afterwards Quins again extended their lead with their fly half kicking a further penalty. Narberth were soon piling on the pressure near the Quins line and after a break down the touchline by Gale he got his pass away when tackled to the supporting Sutton who again crashed over in the corner for an unconverted try (23-18).
Quins were now beginning to panic as the Otters fitness seemed to be making all the difference. With five minutes to go, from a turnover at a ruck the ball was swiftly moved to centre Josh Davies who found a gap in the Quins defence and ran in to score under the posts. Gale converted to put the Otters in front with little time left on the clock.
Then from the last move of the game the Otters had another scrum on the Quins line and MacDonald picked up the ball, shrugged off his opposite number and scored another well deserved try to make the final score 23-30 to the Otters.