Bargoed's win sets up test against the students.

BARGOED closed the gap at the top of Division One East to four points behind leaders Uwic.

And on Saturday, Bargoed Park should be full as the home side take on the students in what could be a thriller.

A controversial last-minute penalty gave Uwic a 32-30 home win over Llanharan as referee David Jones punished the visitors for a high tackle and fly-half Simon Humberstone made no mistake with the 30-metre kick.

In the first half Humbertsone and Codey Rees shared six penalties.

Then, scrum-half Glen Holloway touched down with Rees converting, but with five minutes remaining Uwic led 29-16 after Richard Mountford scored, Humberstone converted and kicked two penalties before converting a try by Craig Howells.

Llanharan lock replacement Lee Davies drove over with No 8 Glenn Slater adding another and two Rees conversions almost won it, only for Humbertsone to land his sixth penalty.

Bargoed raced to a bonus point win with three tries in a seven-minute spell following a red card to Tredegar hooker Paul Edwards and ran out 36-5 winners.

A try and conversion from fly-half Steffan Jones opened the scoring and then wing Gareth Dare went over.

Scrum-half Mike Roberts added a solo try and then wing Lewis Protheroe crossed and Jones converted.

Tredegar hit back with a Luke James try, but Jones landed a penalty before sending Protheroe over for his second and Jones converted superbly for a 16-point tally.

Caerphilly went down 11-5 to Bedlinog as after an early Chris Thomas try, Ben Grzesica scored a try and two penalties.

Three Matthew Hutchings tries helped Ystrad Rhondda defeat Beddau, Lennie Woodard scored try number 148 as Newbridge pounded Merthyr and 16 points from Gareth Price saw Blackwood defeat Rumney.