Dunvant had to make some late changes to the announced team with Jamie Nicholas dropping out with work commitments, Chris Gorvett off the bench to 4, Lewis Buckley on the bench replaced by Shaun Davies and Craig Hawkins coming on to the bench.
Within 4 minutes of Dunvant’s kick off, with Loughor’s big strong pack prevailing with lots of pressure, a 5 metre lineout to the back set up a rolling maul to drive over the line, Shane Davies failing with the conversion attempt for 5-0. Dunvant were starting to make inroads but on 22 minutes a chip into to Dunvant’s 22 was chased back by Dunvant’s full back Adam Williams –Parry and as he went to ground, Loughors’s No 8 went straight in on top of him, not allowing him to get up and with a dodgy tackle which many Dunvant supporters thought merited a red card, he was extremely fortunate to get away with a yellow. Adam who had been making some of his trademark runs was forced to come off injured and Dunvant had to reshape their back line with Richard Lewis off the bench to 10, Aled Lewis from 10 to 9, Sam Gallagher at 9 to 14 and Tom Davies at 14 to 15.
No sooner had the sin bin expired when Loughor repeated their first try to go over again, unconverted for a 10-0 lead. Dunvant got the next score with a penalty from Richard Lewis.
The second half was more evenly balanced with Dunvant upping the tempo but Richard Lewis was unable to convert 2 penalty kicks at goal and Loughor failed with one as well, so no scores in the second half, and Rhys Tucker had 10 minutes in the bin for taking a player out without the ball. Loughor now go into the draw for the 4th round. Elsewhere in the Plate Skewen beat Maesteg Quins 23-8 so Dunvant’s home league game against Skewen on 17th January will now be postponed as Skewen will also be in Round 4. In Division 1 West central Waunarlwydd won 43-11 against Cwmllynfell so now move up to 4th place. Next up for Dunvant is a trip to Seven Sisters on 27th December.

Dunvant Team:
Backs:15 Adam Williams-Parry, 14 Tom Davies, 13 Sam Crowley (Capt), 12 Scott Watkins, 11 Morgan Evans, 10 Aled Lewis, 9 Sam Gallagher
Forwards: 1 Ryan Shoemark, 2 Mark Loughlin, 3 Sam Martin, 4 Chris Gorvett, 5 Gareth Cadmore, 6 Jordan Jackson, 7 Rhys Tucker, 8 Nathan Vaughan
Replacements: 16 Rory Henderson, 17 Shaun Davies, 18 Craig Hawkins, 19 Richard Lewis, 20 Jonathan Arnold

Match Official: Stuart Kibble

Results for Saturday 13th December:
SWALEC PLATE Rd 3
Abertysswg Falcons 13-18 Pontypool United RFC
Aberystwyth RFC 17-12 Kidwelly RFC
Bethesda RFC 13-22 Pwllheli RFC
Brecon RFC 19-34 Ystrad Rhondda RFC
Crymych RFC 15-15 Newcastle Emlyn RFC
N.Emlyn win away rule
Dolgellau RFC 6-20 Nant Conwy RFC
Gowerton RFC 10-20 Penlan RFC
Heol y Cyw RFC 46-0 Pentyrch RFC
Loughor RFC 10-3 Dunvant RFC
Mountain Ash RFC 12-14 The Wanderers
Penallta 23-5 Rhiwbina RFC
Pencoed RFC 23-14 Maesteg RFC
Skewen RFC 23-8 Maesteg Harlequins RFC
Talywain RFC 13-8 Risca RFC
Ynysybwl RFC 40-27 Nelson RFC
Ystalyfera RFC 21-19 Kenfig Hill RFC

Swalec League Division 1 West Central
Waunarlwydd 43 Cwmllynfell 11

Ospreys OE Youth league
Birchgrove v Gorseinon-match postponed
Dunvant 8 Vardre 14
South Gower 16 Pontarddulais 3