Glasgow Warriors completed their home schedule by claiming victory in dramatic fashion in front of a small but, as always, noisy support.

The result meant they had gone through the season with just a single Magners League defeat in Glasgow. In that light, particularly after last week's 1872 Challenge Cup win over Edinburgh, an attendance of only 2017 was deeply disappointing. However, those who did turn out were rewarded with replacement scrum-half Sam Pinder's 79th-minute try, which Dan Parks converted to snatch the win.

Though frustrated by the number of chances his men spurned Sean Lineen, the Warriors head coach, commended them for showing the character to overturn a 10-point deficit in the final quarter against a team they had lost to two months ago. "From a positive point of view we gave up down there in Llanelli whereas this time we didn't. They showed a lot of bottle this time," he said.

"However, we have to look at our execution and our decision-making. Where the Welsh teams are very good at taking their opportunities when they make openings we had botched overlaps with people looking one way and not the other. We've got two natural finishers in the Evans brothers on either wing and they're not getting enough of the ball."

Parks and Stephen Jones kicked two of three penalties in the first half to leave the teams separated at the interval by the former's try which he converted himself after stepping past Matthew Watkins.

That made it 13-6 at half-time but, within 90 seconds of the resumption, the Scarlets had levelled. Full-back Morgan Stoddart came into the line at pace and squeezed through a half gap in the Warriors defence. Another superb run by Stoddart from deep and again at pace, carved open the Warriors a second time.

Jones' third penalty success then gave the Scarlets a two-score advantage as they entered the final quarter, however Stoddart undid much of his good work when he was sin-binned 15 minutes before the end for entering a ruck illegally just short of his goal-line.

That sparked a spell of relentless pressure and after a string of scrums and penalties the ball was shifted wide where Colin Gregor, who had switched from scrum-half to full-back, found a way through.

The versatile sevens internationalist then created the score that turned the match in the dying minutes.

Taking the ball at pace on the right, he cut infield then chipped forward. He was taken out as he chased his own kick but the referee played the advantage and while he initially knocked the bouncing ball forward Pinder showed real alertness to regather before it bounced then got it to ground. Parks converted to take his side home.

Warriors B Stortoni (S Pinder 60); M Evans, G Morrison, D Gibson (A Henderson 51), T Evans; D Parks, C Gregor; J Va'a (K Tkachuk 51), F Thomson (D Hall 40), M Low, O Palepoi, D Turner, K Brown, J Barclay, J Beattie (J Eddie 67) Llanelli Scarlets M Stoddart; D Daniel, R King, M Watkins, N Brew; S Jones, G Cattle; I Thomas, M Schwalger, M Rees 57), B Broster, S MacLeod, V Cooper, S Easterby, J Bater, N Thomas (A Popham 57) Referee D Wilkinson (Ireland)