Taylor was tied in for a ruck but Swansea quickly recycled and Williams appeared again with a flat pass which squeezed Simon Davies in at the right hand corner.It was possible to count on the fingers of one hand the number of times Ebbw Vale made any headway into Swansea territory in the first half-hour. But although Williams converted Davies' try, the outside-half was guilty of three shocking misses with penalty kicks at goal.Thus the Steelmen were able to turn round only seven points adrift. They were given further hope when Byron Hayward sent over a well-struck penalty from close to the right touchline early in the second half.Purely in terms of possession and territorial gain, though, Swansea were streets ahead. Gibbs made an encouraging return after five weeks injury layoff to restart his build-up to the Lions tour.Yet Swansea, keen to deliver at least one trophy to their departing coach Mike Ruddock, badly needed to score more points.This they did in a 17-minute period at the heart of the second half. Lee Davies, a replacement for the injured Back, made an instinctive break from his own half but Swansea still had plenty to do when Davies was brought to earth. Then Williams linked with Taylor and the centre forced his way over.Williams kicked a penalty and Booth adroitly dropped a goal from the 22 as Ebbw Vale wilted.

Then David Llewellyn's pass to Alun Harries was willingly snapped up by Williams who hared away for a 45-metre try.Ebbw Vale's adeptness cheered their highly vocal following in a disappointingly small crowd, with two thrilling tries down the right wing by Harries and Ian Jeffreys.Ironically, though, it was Williams, whose kicking woes had so dogged Swansea, who delivered the final blow with his second penalty from the last kick of the match.Ebbw Vale: A Harries; I Jeffreys, J Hawker, M Boys, S Marshall; B Hayward, D Llewellyn; A Phillips, S Jones (A Lamerton, 73), D Bell, C Billen, J Lillas, B Watkins, M Jones, K Jones (capt).Swansea: M Back (L Davies, 39); W Leach, M Taylor, S Gibbs, Simon Davies; A Williams, A Booth; I Buckett, G Jenkins (capt), S Evans, S Moore, P Arnold, A Reynolds, Stuart Davies (R Jones, 71), R Appleyard (D Thomas, 53).Referee: D Bevan (Clydach).. Orrell look doomed to League Two rugby next season despite staging a heroic fightback against their visitors Bristol at Edge Hall Road yesterday. The Lancashire club, who parted company last week with their director of rugby Peter Williams, trailed 28-12 at half-time. But after the interval they scored 15 points without reply and Bristol scraped through 28-27. Rob Hitchmough scored two of Orrell's four tries and their other touchdowns came from Peter Anglesea and Paul Rees while Matthew McCarthy landed two conversions and a penalty.

Bristol, who are themselves trying to avoid the relegation play-offs, picked up three tries before the break - two by Dave Tiueti and the other from Martin Corry. Paul Burke kicked their other points. Moseley, apparently unaffected by the record loss of pounds 153,137 they incurred last season, dented Bedford's hopes of automatic promotion from League Two with an astonishing 40-34 victory at The Reddings in which both sides scored five tries. Just a week after upsetting Newcastle, Bedford were outsmarted by a rejuvenated Moseley who have exceeded 40 points in each of their last three games. Their decisive try came with 10 minutes to go from Dan Harris.Richmond confirmed their place in League One next season with eight tries in an emphatic 58-29 success at Waterloo and Newcastle strengthened their claims to the second automatic promotion spot with a 49-17 home win over Coventry. That result lifts Newcastle above Coventry into third place on points difference and to within a point of Bedford on whom they have three games in hand.Leeds passed 1,000 League Three points for the season during their 84- 19 victory at Clifton.