WYRE Forest took second place at the Ross Diddy League second round in Cheltenham.

The event, for swimmers aged between nine and 13, was graded with speeding tickets issued for swimmers exceeding a certain time.

Tickets went to Jessica Smith for the 10 years butterfly and backstroke races and Zoe Chamberlain for the 13 years butterfly.

The top two teams battled throughout with the home team only drawing ahead towards the end.

Forest took 11 firsts and 23 seconds out of 57 races with 28 personal best times.

Final result: Cheltenham 184, Wyre Forest 144, Lydney 105, Leominster 99.

Race winners, girls: Chamberlain (13 years, 2 lengths backstroke), 13 medley relay (Jo Parker, Gina Varilone, Chamberlain, Charlotte Jones); boys: 9 breaststroke relay (Joe Thornton, George Preston, Thomas Holmes, Alex Thorley), 9 medley and freestyle relays (Thorley, Holmes, Andrew Griffiths, Liam Garbett), 10 medley relay (Conor Carey, William Short, Garbett, Callum Wilson), Carey (12, 1l freestyle), 12 medley relay (Daniel Beech, Ross Morton, Joe Dyer, Marcus Griffiths), Beech (12, 1l backstroke and breaststroke), Morton (12 1l freestyle).

Second places, girls: Emily Lane (10, 1l freestyle), Smith (10, 1l backstroke0, 10 medley relay (Helen Ingenthron, Lane, Smith, Chloe Baylis), Zoe Garbett (12, 1l butterfly), Parker (13, 2l breaststroke), Varilone (13, 2l freestyle), 13 freestyle relay (Chamberlain, Parker, Smith, Varilone); boys: 9 backstroke relay (Thorley, Preston, A Griffiths, L Garbett), Short (10, 1l butterfly), Harry Macbeth (10, 1l backstroke), 10 freestyle relay (Macbeth, Thornton, Short, Wilson), Pritpal Singh (11, 1l breaststroke), M Griffiths (11, 1l butterfly), Carey (11, 1l backstroke), Morton (12, 3l butterfly), 12 freestyle relay (Dyer, Morton, Singh, Beech), Dyer (13, 2l butterfly and breaststroke), Ben Turton (13, 2l backstroke and freestyle), 13 medley and freestyle relays (Beech, Morton, Dyer, Turton); all-age mixed cannon (L Garbett, Baylis, Carey, Smith, M Griffiths, Leanne Davies, Dyer, Z Garbett, Turton, Varilone).