SCOTLAND women's team struck silver at the European Championship Small Countries Division finals in Liechtenstein, narrowly missing out on gold.

Craig Faill's side won four of their five matches but needed hosts Liechtenstein to beat Cyprus in the final match last night to take the title.

But there was no slip-up from the favourites as they won through 25-18 25-14 25-21.

Scotland lost to Cyprus in a five-set thriller in which they led 9-8 in the final set only to give up seven unanswered points.

Cyrprus won through 19-25 25-21 25-16 22-25 15-9 but the Faroes almost did Scotland a favour on Saturday night when they stretched Cyprus to five sets before the Cypriots pulled through.

Scotland kept the pressure on right until the final match with comfortable wins over Luxembourg 25-12 25-15 25-19 and then

Liechtenstein 25-13 25-19 25-12, with GB Olympic captain producing 19 winning spikes.

The silver medal assures Scotland promotion to the "B" Division of the European Championships.