DROITWICH turned in their finest display of the season to comfortably beat Ludlow 31-7 in the North Midlands Shield quarter-finals.

The home side play their rugby in the league above Droitwich but had no answer to Spa's aggression and dynamism, especially in the loose where Nick Godfrey was superb.

Droitwich opened the scoring when Ross Coombes ran a superb line to cut the defence to ribbons and fed Sean Walker to score.

Number eight Jim Richardson then increased the lead as he powered over from a scrum. Duncan Hughes added the conversion.

Ludlow hit back with a try before Richardson scored again following good approach work by James Davies and Mark Strutt.

The second period saw the visitors up their work-rate, dominating the scrums and line-outs.

But a neat break by Steve Poke saw Droitwich's Leon Hopkins take a pass to breeze over before young winger Mike Jones went over for his maiden first-team try. Hughes added both conversions.