Three of the BEST make a splash in Sunderland
Borders Elite Swimming Team (BEST) Performance Squad and Kelso ASC members Ryan Brown, Lucy Hope and Kirsty Armstrong significantly contributed to Scotland’s second placing at the WISE (Wales, Ireland,...
View ArticleSarah hot foots it in Spain
MOORFOOTS runner Sarah McCormack finished an excellent 13th in the highest quality race of her career at the Atapuerca Cross Country in Spain, the first of this winter’s IAAF Series of international...
View ArticleSunny outlook for Harriers
A HEALTHY turnout of Gala Harriers enjoyed a trip to the seaside last weekend for the second round of the Borders Winter Cross-country Series.Whitesands near Dunbar saw blue skies overhead and a...
View ArticleBorders swimmers nail national places
THE BEST Performance Squad asserted their dominance at the Borders Schools Trials at Galashiels Swimming Pool.Members of the performance squad were entered in 32 events, winning 27. All 15 performance...
View ArticleClassy Casson
GalashielsJohn Scott (Plumbing & Heating) Seniors Winter League: winner, I. Casson nett 36.
View ArticleLammer hammer Foulden
SOME hard games were played in the most recent round of Agrii Border League.On sheet one, Jedburgh kept Duns on the back foot for the bulk of the game, before finishing with a four to go 10- 3...
View ArticleSpotting a niche earns Borders athlete McGreal an extremely nice prize
EXTREME Borderer Paul McGreal is celebrating this week after scooping a major prize at the coveted Annual British Triathlon (Federation) Awards on Saturday.The Celtman Extreme Scottish Triathlon, won...
View ArticleThomson returns to the Greenyards for Gala crunch match
Melrose coach Craig Chalmers is taking no chances as far as his team for Saturday’s crucial league game against Gala at the Greenyards is concerned, writes Fiona Scott.Having rested several players...
View ArticleGala vet Harry set to talk about his return to the land of Genghis Khan
ONE of the Borders’ most experienced vets will regale a Melrose audience next week with an illustrated talk on his involvement with the world’s longest and toughest horse race.Harry McKerchar, a joint...
View ArticleGlentress bike crash
A TEENAGE mountainbiker sustained a serious head injury at one of the Borders most popular courses on Sunday afternoon.The 14-year-old boy from Bathgate was injured while cycling at Glentress Forest....
View ArticleFirst pop-up shop for Selkirk
SELKIRK launched its first ‘pop-up shop’ last Tuesday, when local businessman Morris Manson and his wife Jane’s shop at 48 Market Place opened as a gallery for local artists.Selkirk chamber of trade...
View ArticleHot shots win medals
DEADEYE members of Selkirk Rifle Club have been busy aiming for success in their own domestic tournaments this week.The handicap monthly medal was won by Chris Brown, scoring 100 from a 95 handicap.And...
View ArticleLeague shows zero tolerance by banning Waverley duo
BORDERS Pool League officials have made it clear that any form of unruly behaviour within the league will not be tolerated.An altercation during last month’s League Cup Group A tie between High Level B...
View ArticleBurns sides cueing up behind leaders
THE battle of the Burns Club continued this week, with the two Hawick teams proving inseparable when playing each other.A 3-3 draw keeps the Hawick A and B sides in second and third places respectively...
View ArticleTeries go top of the league
PROVING their first win of the season was no fluke, Hawick’s badminton team put up a strong fight on Sunday to notch their second victory of the season and land themselves the top of the table...
View ArticleFestival fun for Hawick youngsters
AS PART of the Vision 2014 plan for the year of sport 2012, Active Schools Hawick and Hawick Junior Badminton Club offered every P7 pupil in the Hawick and District area the opportunity to get to grips...
View ArticleSouth girls prove hard to pass at Peffermill
SOUTH Under-16 girls’ hockey squad had a tough but rewarding weekend when they travelled to take part in the annual inter-district tournament at Peffermill Hockey Centre.The team was captained by...
View ArticlePerfectionist Jack takes the Shield
SOMEONE somewhere must be looking after Braidwood shooters as Sunday was yet another good, if slightly chilly, day for the 80 Sporting event.Jack Carlyle (Dalton) was the man bang on form. Despite...
View ArticleReivers ladies go to town against Trinity
Waverley Inveresk Trinity 1Fjordhus Reivers 4NATIONAL LADIES DIVISION TWOREIVERS travelled to Edinburgh for their final game before the mid-season break.The Borders ladies were on the offensive right...
View ArticleAll eyes on big derby
NO EXCUSES, we just haven’t been playing well, writes Fiona Scott.That was Craig Chalmers’ take on recent performances by his Melrose squad ahead of Saturday’s crunch Border derby match against old...
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