WORCESTER Wolves are targeting tomorrow's local derby at Black Country Bears (4pm) to give them their first National Basketball League Division One victory of the season.

Wolves lost their opening league match at Westminster by a single point but are confident of beating a side who won promotion last season.

Player-coach Rick Solvason said: "To be honest it has to be a game we expect to win. They are newly promoted but we have experience of this division and should be going there pretty confident."

Wolves will also be hoping to take on some of the good points from their National Trophy exit at Worthing last week.

Solvason added: "It was a crushing defeat on the scoreboard, but although they were bigger, stronger and faster in the first-half, we held our own in the second-half.

"We made it to the quarter-finals which we didn't expect, and playing stronger opposition should put us in good stead for meeting the challenge in Division One."

Wolves add new signing Tom Thornton, from Droitwich, to their squad for the first time, while key player Paul Gerald faces a fitness test on the ankle injury that has kept him out of the last two matches.

Tomorrow's match will be played at the Crystal Leisure Centre, Stourbridge, and is the last of four successive away games for the Wolves. They return to University College Worcester next Saturday for a home clash with North-West London.