WASTEFUL Kidderminster Carolians threw away a good chance of progressing from the Intermediate Cup third round with one of their worst displays for a long time.

KCs fell 24-6 at Camp Hill who are two divisions above them but have lost all six league matches.

The visitors were guilty of poor passing, handling and poor defence which allowed the home side to run in four tries.

Without either Matt Bennett or Simon Wilks through injury, KCs made late changes but that was no excuse for losing.

Skipper Adrian Taft said: "I was disappointed with our total performance and we need to make vast improvements for next week's league game.

"The players are aware of how badly we played and we need to look very closely at where we went wrong."

It might have been different had they managed to score in the opening minutes when they had the ball on the Camp Hill Line.

The first 20 minutes were fairly even with KCs appearing to have the upper hand when they progressed in the mauls.

Camp Hill often threatened when they moved the ball about and it paid off with an unconverted try in the 22nd minute.

KCs did get into the Camp Hill third of the pitch on occasions as Taft and Ambro Neri made deep runs.

At 5-0, KCs were not in any danger but a second try prior to half-time put a different complexion on things.

A half-time talking-to had an immediate effect within four minutes of the new half when Andy Stooksbury kicked the first points with a penalty.

It raised KCs' game and Stooksbury added a second penalty on the hour mark.

The large Kidderminster contingent now had something to cheer but it soon went quiet when Camp Hill scored their third try and added the conversion in the 70th minute.

To rub it in, they did the same four minutes later to end any hopes that KCs might have of pulling the game out of the hat.

KCs need to get organised for a thriller on Saturday as second-placed Bridgnorth visit Marlpool Lane.

KCs 2nds 7 Malvern 44

Under-strength KCs went down to a well-drilled Malvern but started well by winning good early ball.

However, the visitors scored two tries, one converted, mainly due to poor tackling.

KCs hit back following good work by Matt Rigsby and Dave Betson which put Rob Preston in for a try. Iain Crockett converted.

But Malvern had added four more tries by the early stages of the second half.

KCs could have scored after good work by Ben Stanier and Barry Turner but the visitors completed the scoring with two tries and a conversion.

There were pleasing debuts for newcomers Stevenson and Slim.

KCs 3rds 20 Stourport 10

A well-deserved win for KCs after four weeks of near-misses.

They opened the scoring with a try by Andy Webber and though Stourport piled on the pressure, the defence never crumbled.

KCs broke out with Gareth Llewellyn, Webber and Jordan Hackett completing the scoring.

Stourport did strike back in the second half with two tries.

Stourbridge 5ths 24 KCs 4ths 17

KCs travelled with 14 players and faced a daunting task but the seven-man pack held its own.

They had more than their fair share of the scrums, rucks and mauls but could not turn it into points and were 17-12 down at half time with four Willy Dimmock penalties.

KCs took the game to Stourbridge but lost Murray Kaye with a hip injury.

They went further behind but Richard Bishop gave them some consolation with a try.

Droitwich 20 KCs U-16s 32

KCs progressed to the North Midlands Cup second round after piling on the pressure following a disappointing first half.

KCs' only first half try was scored by James Guest and the hosts were leading 15-5 at the break.

But soon after the re-start, KCs' Owen Jones scored two unconverted tries to level the scores until 15 minutes was left.

Then good breaks by Luke Lloyd led to Jones completing his hat-trick.

Billy Chiverton and Guest added tries with Tom Lohoff contributing a conversion before a Droitwich consolation.

Fixtures, Saturday: KCs v Bridgnorth, 1sts and 3rds home, 2nds and 4ths away (all 2.15pm kick-offs).