WORCESTER Warriors ran in nine tries for a clean sweep of pre-season wins as they beat Birmingham Moseley 57-0 at Sixways.

Hat-tricks for Josh Adams and Tom Howe along with tries for Ryan Mills, Dean Hammond and Ashley Beck meant it was a happy finish to pre-season for Alan Solomons’ men.

Plenty of Warriors players gained valuable game-time ahead of Saturday, September 1, when the Gallagher Premiership campaign gets under way against Wasps.

Worcester looked strong from the off, particularly with their driving maul, and got the first points on the board when Francois Hougaard went blindside off the maul and offloaded for Adams to scoot over.

James Williams, who trained with Warriors in the summer, made a break for Moseley as they searched for a response but after conceding a penalty in the 22 the chance went begging and they were soon punished.

Joe Wrafter was shown a yellow card for a late tackle on Duncan Weir and after another powerful maul Warriors soon recycled with Mills going over following impressive hands from Weir and an unselfish pass by summer signing Francois Venter on his first showing in front of the Sixways faithful.

Warriors bagged their third try after more good work from Mills who kept getting Warriors over the gain-line but it was his pinpoint cross-field kick for Adams that earned the third try just after the 20-minute mark.

The game became a bit scrappy with a series of errors as the first half petered out leaving Warriors 17-0 up.

Warriors soon found their stride in the second period when Adams crossed for his hat-trick after fellow Welshman Beck made the hard yards, taking men with him before putting it on a plate for the winger.

Weir fired over the conversion for his last involvement as Solomons unloaded a barrage of replacements who soon took the game to the next level.

The driving maul proved a valuable weapon again in the 22 before Warriors got it to Hammond and his hard-ran line saw him stretch over tacklers for Warriors’ fifth try and Jono Lance sent over the extras.

Aussie fly-half Lance used his trusty right foot to put one in behind the Moseley defence and with a host of men chasing Howe had the legs to dot down before the ball bobbled out of play.

Howe helped himself to a second try off the back of fine work from Luke Baldwin in attack as he powered into the backline before sending his wingman away.

Lance pounced on a loose Moseley pass to put Warriors on the front foot again and with the impressive Ollie Lawrence in support the centre kicked on for Beck who scooped the ball up to bash his way over the whitewash.

And to complete the win Howe secured his hat-trick after Ted Hill’s barnstorming break from over halfway.

Howe said: "Every team that's scoring tries is a confident team and that's exactly what we need going to Wasps.

"The team is really starting to gel now. Our set-piece is working and putting us in space to finish them off.

"We have had a good pre-season compared to last year. We've looked a lot stronger."

Warriors: Pennell (Scully 40); Adams (Howe 50), Venter (Lawrence 55), Mills (Beck 40), Hammond (Baldwin 55); Weir (Lance 50), Hougaard (Arr 50); Black (Bower 50), Taufete’e (Annett 50), Schonert (Kerrod 50), Bresler (Kitchener 50), Phillips (Williams 71), du Preez (Lewis 40), Mama (Hill 50), van Velze (Faosiliva 50).