North Midlands Under-15 Girls suffered narrow defeats against hosts Notts, Lincs & Derbyshire and Staffordshire on a busy day at Southwell today.
North Midlands went down 10-7 to NLD after scrum-half Ellie Johnson of Old Halesonians had cancelled out an early try by the home team.
Johnson converted the try to give North Midlands the lead but NLD sealed the win with an unconverted try.
Against Staffordshire North Midlands were beaten 10-5 with Oswestry full-back Kim Thurlow scoring the try after Staffordshire had opened up a 10 points lead.