UPTON Rowing Club secured victories at Gloucester and Ross-on-Wye regattas.

Five women's crews raced at Gloucester with the quad of Linda Scott, Pippa Riddle, Trish Scorer and Jo Hammett winning the masters C/E event by seeing off the hosts and then Swansea.

The masters F pair of Liz Elston and Maggie Jameson narrowly missed out on success and the improving Olly Tomkinson and Mandie Bird were also beaten in the masters D doubles event.

Hammett and Scott were pipped in the masters E/F doubles while Sally Miles and Debbie Thompson beat Gloucester in the masters A/B doubles final.

Four crews headed to Ross with Miles and Thompson winning in the band one women's doubles after beating Minerva Bath in the semis and then Stratford in the final in a rematch after a dead heat was called.

The women’s master E quad of Scott, Riddle, Scorer and Hammett lost as did the mixed masters F double of Andrew Scott and Riddle.

The women’s masters F double of Hammett and Scott finished the day with a victory over Llandaff.