Bolton RUFC’s Amazons girls teams travelled to Trafford Metrovicks Rugby Club to take part in the first rounds of the NGN cup.

The first game was for the under-16s who had clustered with some of the Trafford girls to take on a strong Eccles team.

Turnovers were their downfall in the game, but the Bolton girls put up a brave fight with Raid Hodgkinson-Bostock and Amelia Crook the standout players.

Eccles scored a couple of tries when Bolton failed to secure the ball, before Bolton later scored from a scrum on the 22-metre line - a blindside move, involving Lizzie Barrow, Jasmine Cox and Tope Oyeside leading to Jasmine scoring which was later converted.

The final score was 33-7 to Eccles.

Their second game was against the NW Roses team - a combination with girls from Fylde, Preston, Burnley and Southport making up the team.

This game was well balanced, but Bolton opened the scoring with a fine try from Sophie Rose, who ran from just inside her own half the length of the pitch to score.

The Roses just could not get back into the game and Jasmine Cox got on the scoresheet after cutting through the defence a short while later.

Bolton scored their final try through one of the Trafford girls to seal a 19-0 win.

Their final game was against a strong Littleborough team, who had joined Rochdale, which Bolton lost 24-0.

The U14s had three cup games, the first against Trafford MV combined with Glossop.

Bolton were joined by five Eccles girls - Freya, Niamh, Ruby, Millie and Annie - and the first game was a close encounter with only one try scored by the opposition.

Hard work by Betty Weall, Holly Turner, Erin Shaw and Iona Barnes kept the Trafford MV attack at bay keeping the score to one try only as it ended 5-0 to the hosts.

The second game was against a strong Littleborough team.

Bolton’s U14s are new group of girls still finding their feet, some of which have come up from the U12s and it will take a few games for the girls to settle in.

This second match was hard-fought, but Littleborough finished on top with two tries and one conversion in a very competitive game which could have gone either way.

The U14s’ final game was against the NW Roses U14s, and Bolton took control early on.

A great run from Iona Barnes came after she stole the ball from an opposition player. She ran the length of the pitch to score under the posts and converted her own try.

The next try came from Freya, from Eccles, who saw a gap in the defence and again ran half the pitch to score under the posts, which Iona converted.

Two more tries from Bolton, with Eve Barrow at scrum-half seeing a gap five metres from the opposition line going over first and then a final try from Holly Turner, who collected a ball from the back of a ruck and ran over the line to score the final try.

The match ended in a 24-0 victory for the combined Bolton/Eccles side.