First-half goals from Becs Bell and Sophie Humphrey saw Worthing beat Hastings in their penultimate pre-season friendly.
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.
Following an entertaining two-all draw between Winchester and Whitehawk, it was the host’s turn to take on their East Sussex neighbours as they rounded-off the afternoon’s action.
An unfamiliar looking Worthing kicked-off this three-way friendly tournament with defeat to Southern Premier South newboys Winchester City.