HEREFORDSHIRE Ladies earned a second round tie with Gloucestershire after beating Dorset by 13 shots in the first round of the Walker Cup National Two-Rink competition.

Val Pedlingham's rink was always in command to run out 25-11 winners while Doreen Herbert's rink clawed back from 4-12 down to lose eventually by just a single shot at 18-19.

In a friendly match at Eastnor, Herefordshire lost to Leicestershire.

Herefordshire 108 Leicestershire 126 (Herefordshire skips): Eileen Maddox 25-22, Val Ped,ingham 19-16, Eileen Turner 17-17, Ruth Millard 19-21, Doreen Herbert 16-21, Jill Baldwin 12-29.