WORCESTERSHIRE and Herefordshire welcome back Pershore winger Stef Ellis for the RLF North Midlands Championship final with defending champions Shropshire at Stourbridge tomorrow night (7.30).
Dudley Kingswinford centre Rees Pritchard and Old Halesonians scrum-half Chris Wagstaff also return.
Ellis missed the 20-15 victory over Shropshire in the final group match at Droitwich.
Malvern’s Will Farris moves from centre to full-back in place of Hereford’s Kieran Hallum with Ellis displacing Upton’s Alex Pimlow.
The two counties failed to qualify for last season’s final but have prospered under the new coaching team of ex-Worcester players Nick Tisdale and Duncan Hughes.
Worcestershire & Herefordshire: Farris; Ellis, Pritchard, Thompson (Stourbridge Lions), Millen (Stourbridge Lions); Powell (Hereford), Wagstaff; Hilstead (Hereford), Greenwood (Dudley Kingswinford), Taylor (Old Halesonians), Watkins (Hereford), Parry (Dudley Kingswinford), Martin (Malvern), Edwards (Malvern), McEwan (Dudley Kingswinford). Replacements: Murphy (Malvern), Owen (Stourbridge Lions), Hope (Pershore), McCall (Hereford), Preece (Hereford), Baker (Stourbridge Lions), Speedy (Dudley Kingswinford).
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