Sixteen-year-old hat-trick star earns Caernarfon a dramatic draw at Llanystumdwy

NWC LLANDUDNO KIA WOMEN’S LEAGUE – JANUARY 18, 2026

CPDM Llanystumdwy 3 (Wellings 2, Malen Williams 31, Perry 36)

Caernarfon Town 3 (Megan Williams 25, 55, 90+)

Sixteen-year-old hat-trick star Megan Williams helped Caernarfon to recover from 3-1 down at half time to earn a commendable point at Llanystumdwy.

The home side started the brightest and found themselves ahead early on. It was just over 2 minutes in when Malen Williams found Hana Wellings, who turned and hit an unstoppable shot into the top right corner.

The visitors responded well to the early setback and settled into the game. 25 minutes in and they found themselves level, Keisha Swai down the right found space to put in a dangerous cross, Megan Williams got across the defender and after her first effort rebounded off keeper and defender, it dropped back to the striker in front of an open net, she slotted home for 1-1

This seemed to wake up the home side who didn’t capitalise on their bright start. Just past the half hour mark Malen Williams restored Llan’s lead, a brilliant free kick drilled off the post and in.

Five minutes later and the lead was extended. Nice play down the left between Lea Ephraim and Wellings, a cross delivered in by Ephraim found Angharad Perry and she controlled well inside the box and finished into the bottom corner

Half time: 3-1

The first 10 minutes of the second half were uneventful, but a long ball by Jordan Roberts was misjudged by the Llan defence and Megan Williams found herself through on goal. With Sara Lacey rushing out the young striker still had a lot to do,. However, Williams first time effort beat Lacey and Caernarfon were back in the game.

The final half an hour saw the visitors push players forward and Llan hitting on the counter, a couple of half chances fell to both sides, two free kicks for the visitors saved by Lacey, and a couple of breakaway attacks for Llan who failed to put the game to bed.

Just as it looked as though it would end 3-2, Caernarfon equalised in injury time. A similar goal to their second, Jordan Roberts’ long ball was missed by a Llan defender and Megan Williams was bearing down on goal for again. Two recovering defenders did their all to get back, but another clinical finish from the young striker saw her complete her hat-trick, and earned a point for the away side.

Llanystumdwy manager Sion Parry said: “A bit of a strange one I felt from us today,. In the past 6 weeks we’ve not trained once and only had the game against Swansea in that time. Obviously the Christmas break plays a part in that but different reasons means we’ve not done anywhere near as much as we’d like. I expected us to be a bit sluggish today but we started off really well, and after they equalised we responded well again andIi thought we played really well in the first half.

“I think the second goal was a sucker punch to us, because start of the second half we looked happy and comfortable with a two-goal lead, nothing really happening in the game and then in the blink of an eye we make one mistake and its 3-2, now it’s a completely different game.

“Obviously, now its a case of seeing the game out, and now this is where I think that big break for us played its part. I would’ve liked us to control the game and give ourselves a bit of a rest but it was a bit like a basketball game which didn’t suit us and eventually we were punished for it.

“I don’t want to take anything away from Caernarfon though, an old cliche it was a game of two halves, they were the better team in the second half, with a lot of young players coming through now with the new set up there, sometimes it can’t be easy for them to adapt from junior to senior football, but they didn’t buckle at any point and got what they worked so hard for.

“On the whole, I think a draw is fair, but clearly our frustration and/or disappointment will come from being 2 goals up, and also conceding from a counter attack in injury time. It’s something we need to learn from and now we move on to another tough game vs Kinmel Bay next week.”