A BRECON schoolboy is looking forward to leading his team out to take on the best of Europe's young hockey sides in a major competition in Poland in the summer.

Wales Under 18s hockey captain Ben Wigmore, a lower sixth Christ College pupil, was made captain for an international test series against Scotland U18s which took place in Sterling earlier this year.

Wigmore and his teammates are now focussing on the EuroHockey Youth Championships in Gasawa, Poland, in July, which will see them up against teams from Ireland, Switzerland and Greece.

For more on Ben's Wales exploits, read this week's Brecon & Radnor Express, out now.