ON Sunday, Cirencester U12 girls' hockey teams played host to Worcester Hockey Club who brought their A and B squads.

Worcester are regular rivals at the Cheltenham tournaments organised each month and the matches are always hotly contested.

The Cirencester A team played Worcester A twice and their B team once, while the reverse was the case with the B teams.

The games were played over 20 minutes rather than the normal 12-minute duration.

The games were used as a trial for the forthcoming County Cup on March 8.

The A team played well against Worcester in the first game narrowly beating them 1-0 – a fair result given how well the girls performed.

Against Worcester's B team some good, well-constructed hockey resulted in a 3-0 victory.

The final game was much tougher against their A team.

Worcester came out fighting and wanted revenge. Cirencester had many players out of position and did not field its strongest side. Worcester played very well to beat Cirencester 5-0.

Cirencester U12 Girls A results

1-0 v Worcester A (scorer: Flo Fletcher)

3-0 v Worcester B (Flo Fletcher, Imogen Cooper, Megan Poole)

0-5 v Worcester A

Cirencester U12 Girls' B results

2-1 v Worcester B

2-2 v Worcester B

0-8 v Worcester A

Charlotte Mandefield moved up from the U10s girls' team to keep goal.