TALENTED keeper Adrian Hipkins joined Ted Baylis in trials for the English Schools football side at the weekend.

The Foley Park 17-year-old, who like Baylis has also fought back from a broken leg, plays for unbeaten Bewdley Town after being released by Kidderminster Harriers.

Hipkins was too old to be signed on YTS forms for next season's football academy set-up.

Both Hipkins and Baylis, who plays for Chaddesley Corbett, face an anxious wait of around two weeks to find out whether they have been selected from the Midlands trials which were switched to Redditch.

Hipkins, who has had trials with Notts County and is hoping to get into professional football, is in the county schools and FA squad.

And the teenager, an A-level student at the town's King Charles I High School, won the Midland Floodlit Youth League Premier Division while with the Harriers.

Midfielder Baylis, meanwhile, is a student at Stourport High School but is also pursuing a possible cricket career.

Hipkins was carrying a slight ankle injury for the trials which hindered him.

But he said: "They went pretty well for me and I felt like I did myself justice. I'm hoping to get the call saying I will be going to Lilleshall for the final 64.

"The scouts will be coming to watch the England schools matches and it will be a major spectacle for them.

"I've played in the last four games for Bewdley. But I would like to think it's been a team effort and everybody has played a part in the club's success so far."