WORCESTERSHIRE and Herefordshire clubs will compete in the first of three day-long women’s super Sunday touch rugby tournaments.

Organised by the Midlands Ladies’ Touch League (MLTL), the inaugural event will be on Sunday at Old Laurentians in Rugby.

Pershore, Redditch and Bredon will be involved from Worcestershire, with Bromyard, Luctonians, Greyhound and Ross-on-Wye representing Herefordshire.

Berry Hill, Stratford, Wellesbourne, Old Laurentians, Berkswell and Balsall, Rugby St Andrews, Newbold, Camp Hill and Cannock will also be taking part.

Any females aged 13 and upwards can join one of the teams playing the fast, non-contact sport.

The action will start at 11am and finish at around 5pm.

Fizz Bewley, administrator for the league, believes touch rugby is one of the fastest-growing sports for women in the Midlands.

She said: “Because it is non-contact, anyone can play – whole families in mixed or single-sex events – and it is a brilliant way to get fit, make friends and have a lot of fun.

“The MLTL is an open league and new teams can enter at any time in the season.

“Women of all ages can find a club near them and have a go.”

The league has grown massively in the last year, and 16 teams and nearly 200 women now regularly play, so the competition has been divided into north-east and south-west regions.

Each hosts six league tournaments in the 2015 season from March until November to find the regional champion.

The three super Sunday tournaments, with two in the summer and a final in the autumn, will decide the overall league winners.