Ospreys sealed a home semi-final with a comfortable 42-10 victory over the injury-hit Dragons at the Liberty Stadium.
Biggar scores a try, kicks 22 points in comfortable home win
Ospreys sealed a home game in the Magners League semi-finals with a 42-10 victory over the Dragons at the Liberty Stadium.
The home side ran in five tries to seal an added bonus point, fly-half Dan Biggar grabbing one of them to go alongside his 22 points with the boot.
As well as a first-half penalty try, Ryan Jones, Nikki Walker and Ryan Bevington also crossed in a dominant display from the Ospreys.
While they were able to field 15 full internationals in their starting line-up, the depleted Dragons had 14 players out injured.
Their cause was not helped by the late loss of openside flanker Gavin Thomas, who pulled out of the side before the kick-off.
However they still competed bravely in the first 40 minutes and trailed 16-3 at the break.
Superb defending
Biggar kicked penalties after five and eight minutes to put the Ospreys in front before winger Shane Williams was denied the game's opening try by some superb defending from Dragons full-back Will Harris.
Instead the Ospreys' first try arrived courtesy of the forwards, as the visitors crumbled under the pressure of having to deal with three five-metre scrums.
Biggar added the simple conversion before trading penalties with opposite number Jason Tovey leading up to the half-time interval.
Jones went in for a pushover try soon after the interval - only for the Dragons to respond with an effort from scrum-half Wayne Evans.
But the sin-binning of prop Aaron Coundley for the continual collapsing of the scrum allowed the Ospreys to run up the points in the closing stages.
Biggar, who finished off an impressive counter attack, and Walker touched down before replacement prop Bevington went over in the left corner five minutes from the final whistle.
