MALVERN College finished runners-up in the bowl competition at the Marches Sevens in Hereford.

They lost 14-5 in the final to Old Swinford Hospital, Stourbridge, after earlier being eliminated from the main cup following a third-placed finish in Group ‘F’.

They beat hosts Hereford Cathedral School 26-12 in the quarter-finals and overcame Stratford’s King Edward VI School 15-7 in the last four.

But the challenge of Old Swinford in the bowl final proved too much for Malvern, who hit back to level after conceding an early score.