EDINBURGH ACCIES 12, HAWICK 13
Hawick were in Edinburgh for the second week in succession, this week at Raeburn Place, and hoping to build on last week's good performance at Goldenacre.  The large travelling support again outnumbered the locals, witnessed a dour battle littered with mistakes from both sides who failed to take advantage of the very strong breeze, Accies in the first half and Hawick in the second.
Accies started the stronger and had Hawick on the ropes for the opening 15 minutes who again opted for the catch and drive policy which worked to their advantage in the previous encounter but with lesser effect this time. Accies prop Marsh barged his way over for the opening score to put the home side 5-0 up. This seemed to spur Hawick into action who had their best spell of the match for the next 20 minutes. The forwards kept the pressure on and Accies did well to hold their line intact but eventually Craig Neish managed to force his way over who also slotted a good conversion. Accies replied with a converted try to retake the lead at 12-7. Neish put over a penalty to reach the interval at 12-10 behind but with the strong elements in their favour to come.
Both sides produced numerous unforced errors in the second half and seemed to get each other bogged down for lengthy periods. Craig Neish put over another penalty to give Hawick a slender 1 point advantage which was the last score of the day. Matt Landels again received a very dubious yellow card and with a man down, Hawick held firm with the very young front row of Little, Scammell and Linton sticking to their task particularly well. Hawick defended well in the final 5 minutes to reach the final whistle and a hard fought but unimpressive win by 13 points to 12 which moves them up to fifth place in the league.

Team:- Neil Renwick, Stephen Anderson, Rory Hutton, Craig Neish, Colin Murray, Barry Sutherland, Greg Goodfellow, Nicky Little, Matt Landels, Sean Linton, Gavin Petrie, David Lowrie, Nick McTaggart, Andy Wilson and Danny Landels.
Subs:- Ross Armstrong, B Campbell, G Douglas, Hugh Scammell and Ian Elliot

HAWICK ACADEMY 41, KELSO A 3
With their fifth Friday night fixture of the season, long term injury victims Lee Stewart and Zander Bruce returned to the squad together with Quins stand off Chris Shand on the bench. Playing towards the YM pitch, the Academy got off to a good start when they stole a Kelso lineout and following a break by M Graham no 8 K Davies scored in the corner.  Kelso replied almost at once, fencing the home side to concede a penalty under the sticks, the Kelso no 10 converted to trail 5-3. The young Hawick squad were playing at a high rate, another break by M Graham saw him score next to the posts, Armstrong converting.  This high tempo match had run Berwick off their feet the previous week, but the Poynder Park men matched them up front but the backs looked to have the better of their opposite numbers.  So it proved to be, just on the interval when a break by N McColm was supported by C Whillians, who when caught close to the line passed inside to R Borthwick who ran in the try, Armstrong added the extras for a 19-3 half time lead.  
Early in the second half the no 10 added a penalty, however he couldn't add the extras to Borthwick's second try. This was Armstrong's last act off the match and was replaced by Chris Shand.  A try on the hour mark by M Graham after a charge down and a run from the 10 metre line which he converted himself for a 34-3 lead.   A final try was scored late in the game when B Campbell dummied from a ruck deep in the Kelso 22 and ran under the sticks, Shand added the extras to complete the scoring, 41-3.

Thanks to Davy Oliver for the match report