Despite a much-improved second-half display Worthing couldn’t quite break down Chippenham Town but remained unbeaten, aided by a second-successive clean sheet.
Worthing rode a first-half storm to send Weymouth crashing to their third successive defeat.
A first-half hat-trick from Gemma Worsfold was matched by one in the second from Georgia Tibble as Reds ran riot in their final friendly against London Seaward.
A full-blooded, action-packed afternoon saw Worthing pick up their first win in National League South to shoot up to fourth in the embryonic standings.
Both teams will have gone away feeling they could have won this well-contested affair but ended up cancelling each other out in a 1-1 draw.
Home fans don’t normally celebrate a five-one thrashing for the Reds but in this case it was Wycombe Wanderers who were on the wrong end of this pre-season outcome.
Worthing were given their toughest test of pre-season so far as they needed a late equaliser from Nodirbek Bobomurodov to ensure it ended honours even at Nyewood Lane.
A first Senior goal for sixteen year-old substitute Evan Hoarty rounded off an impressive three-nil win for Worthing, as they lifted the Isthmian League Charity Shield.
A Jake Robinson hat-trick and Ollie Pearce double led Worthing to a fine 5-1 thrashing of a Ricky Aguiar-led Swindon Town.
Following on from two sixty-minute friendlies for the men on Saturday, Worthing’s women started their pre-season with one of their own against higher-league Moneyfields, less than twenty-four hours later.
