Albert win, but red mist descends
Hawick Royal Albert 2Easthouses Lily 1EoS FIRST DIVISIONJOHN SLORANCE reports from Albert ParkIt may have been a clear day, but a red and yellow mist shrouded Albert Park on Saturday afternoon. This...
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Hawick Waverley 5West Barns Star 4BAL DIVISION ATHIS incredible game saw four penalties and two red cards awarded.The homesters sailed into the lead through a Dean McColm penalty after Jordan Yardley...
View ArticleBrogan set to take on Auld Enemy
HAWICK’s Brogan Anderson is in line to play against England after being named in Scotland’s under-15 girls’ squad for the coming season.The 18-strong pool, assembled from schools across Scotland,...
View ArticleDale misses big chance
Preston Athletic 0Peebles Rovers 0EoS FIRST DIVISIONDALE McCall missed a great chance to give Peebles Rovers all three points against his former side. The substitute striker missed from six yards out...
View ArticleSelkirk fail to up their game against Leith
Selkirk 0Leith Athletic 1EoS PREMIER DIVISIONKENNY PATERSON reports from Yarrow Park“We will never give up,” said Selkirk assistant manager Aaron Biggs at the end of his team’s latest disappointing...
View ArticleFirst clout
ETTRICK Forest Archers’ season starts this Sunday with the first monthly clout competition.First arrows will be loosed at 1pm prompt.
View ArticleTweedsiders to four as Fleming hits double
Kelso 4Liberton 1EAST LADIES PREMIER DIVISIONA DOUBLE from Suzanne Fleming helped Kelso Ladies overcome bottom-of-the-table Liberton.The hosts threatened first and Natasha McLaren scored a tremendous...
View ArticleBallabriggs set for Kelso warm-up to Aintree
GRAND National victor Ballabriggs heads to Kelso on Saturday to contest the totepool Premier Chase.Following a racecourse gallop at Haydock, Donald McCain’s gelding will run at Kelso en route to...
View ArticleJo gets some pals into play
Peebles Netball is celebrating the call-up of nine players to take part in the Under-17 European Championship matches in Glasgow next weekend. Shooting ace Jo Pettitt had already made the cut for the...
View ArticlePeebles take team title in BSLT event
The first Borders Secondary Schools Cross-country Championship in a decade saw Peebles High claim the overall title.Borders Sport and Leisure Trust resurrected the event at Netherdale in Galashiels,...
View ArticleHockey stars in the making take to Tweedbank pitch
BORDERS hockey development officer Janet Jack believes the grassroots of the sport is growing in the region.She commented after witnessing more than 120 children between the ages of seven and 12 take...
View ArticleJim’s high flyer gets mixed reaction from shooters
Although cooler than earlier in the week, conditions were good for Sunday’s shoot at Braidwood – so much so that Jim Black elevated the High Pheasant on stand one for the trophy round ... to a mixed...
View ArticleFjordhus take control despite forced switches
Glasgow Accies 1Borders Fjordhus 4NATIONAL LADIES SECOND DIVISIONA MUCH-CHANGED Borders line-up returned from Glasgow with a fine four-goal win.With the visitors forced into several alterations, as a...
View ArticleStable job for teen Chris
HAWICK teenager Christopher Lynn is one of two Borders winners in the prestigious Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards.Eighteen-year-old Lynn, who works at Ferdy Murphy’s Yorkshire yard, won the...
View ArticleAnderson and Hancock shine at Abbotsford
ABBOTSFORDTHE last of the second-round ties in the Handicap Singles took place last week, with Brian Anderson outplaying Kenny Johnstone in the first tie. The second game between Tom Boyd and Ecky...
View ArticleVets urged to kart round Jedburgh
Past competitors of the Border Counties Rally, which first ran 40 years ago, have been set a challenge to show they have not lost their talents. They are invited to get together in Jedburgh on...
View ArticleSurprising results
THE League Cup semi-finals took place, with shock results in both games. The Ship A trounced reigning champions Waverley A, while High Level held off luckless Reivers B.In the league there was one...
View ArticleRound the fairways
GALASHIELSWinter League: 1, I. Casson nett 37 (best last six holes).TORWOODLEEMen’s Stableford (February 25/26): 1, D. Thorburn (12) 38 points; 2, R. Hastings (12) 37. Men’s Stableford (February 18):...
View ArticleBest bib and tucker for Border Ecosse members as they celebrate another great...
BORDER ECOSSE Car Club members were in their best gear for the annual dinner dance and presentation of awards at Kelso Race Course.A good turnout of over 115 members and guests attended the event and...
View ArticleKids battle to the end in cross-border skirmish
ONCE again, young Badminton players from around the Borders region played their hearts out in the annual Anglo-Scottish tournament, held in Ashington.This time it was the turn of the under-16 squad,...
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