The Beamer

There'll be no love lost in the winner takes all game between Neyland and Haverfordwest today yet in the day's other big game  at Cresselly, friends and family members will do battle in a game that means a lot to one team and not much else to the other. Lawrenny have played their part in how this year's first division title race has shaped up and they could still play their part today but with nothing riding on the game for them, will they go all out to win the game or just enjoy the last game of the season and take the field with the air of a side playing in a charity match? In other words, is the game a foregone conclusion? Will Lawrenny do their chums a favour, pile their second team with first team players to ensure their survival in division three and let nature take its course against the current division leaders? According to the wife of one Lawrenny player, the answer is no. The rivalry between Cresselly and Lawrenny may not be as intense as the one between

Johnny Bap - he can catch It was appropriate that Jonathan Lewis A.K.A. Jonny Bap appeared on TV last night securing a crowd catch during Glamorgan's home game against Hampshire as during  last week's Harrison-Allen final he was on standby to guard a friend of his from being hit while he slept on the boundary's edge. Little wonder as Brad Jenkins was batting and his friend was sleeping in one of his hot zones at cow corner. Brad was on fire, hitting the ball hard in a losing cause and probably bemoaning the fact he hadn't batted sooner. The ball didn't come his way but had he been sleeping at deep mid-off or deep mid -on it would have, given that's where the majority of sixes were hit during the day. They were big ones too. Jenkins, Joe Kidney, man of the match Alex Bayley and a few others absolutely smashed it there, the true Cresselly surface lending itself to pure, clean hitting. The Harrison-Allen final showed Pembrokeshire at its best; frien

One of the great trophies in amateur sport. Pic taken from www.westerntelegraph.co.uk  It's been sat on, thrown around, drunk from, spewed in and even left for dead in a taxi but from here on in, any tales that the Harrison-Allen trophy has to tell will be confined to history as whoever wins it on Sunday will have a different trophy to display in their trophy cabinet come Monday morning. The decision to provide the winner with a new one was made some time ago, the simple reason being the current trophy is far too valuable for clubs to look after. It's no surprise. It's 68 years old; made from solid silver, took one year to create and is valued at a price close to that of a high end luxury car or a small terraced house in the Valleys. To some, it's priceless and with good reason too. It's a work of art, a delicate one at that. The roses on the side have been soldered on more than once and even today often fall off while the shell is far from solid and is