In Guimaraes (Portugal), after convincing victories over the hosts and Croatia on Saturday, Scotland’s under-21 women stormed into Sunday's final of the European Junior Indoor Trophy competition against Switzerland, who won the earlier pool match in the dying seconds with the only goal of the game.

Against Portugal, the young Scots controlled the game from start to finish. Remarkably, given their lack of goals against Switzerland, they scored five - all five of them netted by Milne Craig Western’s Ellie Cockburn.

Against Croatia, the weakest team in the competition, Gordonians’ Louise Fleming set the Scots on the right road from a penalty corner in the sixth minute.

After the Croatians equalised, Emily Bain, Susan McGilveray and Amy Brodie stretched it to 4-1 by half-time. Bain and Brodie, with two more, added to their tallies, while Hollie Porter joined in the fun in the second half as the Scots ran out 8-2 winners.

Manager Sheila Gray said the girls still had a way to go in terms of performance, but they’d achieved all they been asked to do with these victories: "Ellie scored all the goals in the morning, but with good assistance from those around her, and it was good to see all the other strikers and playmakers on the scoresheet against Croatia.

"But we’re still not playing the structured game that coach David Stott would like to see, except in short spells. So we’ve got to lift our game to a new level and move the ball around much more quickly if we’re to defeat the Swiss in the final and gain promotion to the Championship level for the future."