AFTER the previous week's narrow defeat at the hands of Bredon, Ledbury 2nd returned to winning ways with a 17-12 home victory over Cheltenham CS.

Russ Price (2) T Blandford scored their tries and Barrett Price kicked a conversion.

n Charlie Langford converted Andrew McPhail's try in Luctonians 2nd's home defeat to Stourport 1st.

Luctonians 3rd beat Ludlow 2nd 12-5 away with tries from John Bushwell and Nick Frost, who also landed a conversion.

Hereford Colts drew 17-17 with Stratford with tries from Gary Preece (2) and Colin Osborne, who also kicked a conversion.

Hereford won five of their six matches against Luctonians in the mini-section. Their under-7s won 20-15, the under-8s 30-15, the under-9s 35-0, with seven tries, before Luctonians took the under-10 game 25-10. Hereford triumphed 40-15 in the under-11 match, while the under-12s won 19-7.