BOROUGHMUIR 40, HAWICK 20
Following the euphoria of last weeks final quarter comeback against Currie, Hawick visited Meggatland hoping to carry on where they left off but Boroughmuir laid out their stall in the opening minutes and it was clear to the again excellent travelling support, that this was going to be a much tougher match than in previous weeks against a team who must be one of the favourites to lift the league title. Hawick were minus Landels and Little in the front row but even so, would still have had their work cut out had they been able to field a full strength side. Hawick's cause was not helped by some very slack tackling and basic errors, particularly in the first half, which allowed Boroughmuir to score some very soft tries.
Boroughmuir scored three tries and a penalty, two of them in the opening minutes, before Hawick scored their only points of the first half with a Craig Neish penalty. Another breakaway converted try gave the home side a convincing 23-3 lead at the interval.
Another penalty by Neish and some more determined play from Hawick gave thoughts of another comeback but this was all to no avail as Boroughmuir scored another couple of tries to put them out of site at 35-6. To Hawick's credit they never gave in and managed to contain the Boroughmuir attacks. A try which was started and finished by Andy Wilson took the score to 35-13 but Boroughmuir hit back with another try. Hawick again rallied in the closing stages and when Kevin Reid was impeded when he would have scored, the referee awarded a penalty try converted by Neish and Boroughmuir finished convincing winners by 40 points to 20 which would have been much more had they had a reliable goal kicker.

Team:- Neil Renwick, Steven Anderson, Rory Hutton, Craig Neish, Colin Murray, Barry Sutherland, Greg Goodfellow, Garry Douglas, Hue Scammell, Brad Turnbull, Gavin Petrie, Michael Robertson, Nick McTaggart, Danny Landels and Andy Wilson.

HAWICK ACADEMY 25 PEEBLES A 3
Friday night saw the Academy start a run of games with the three sides immediately below them in the league table with a visit to The Gytes at Peebles. The lighter Hawick Pack Knew they have to work hard to keep the home forwards at bay and so it proved the case after the visitors got off to a flyer. In the 5th minute, fullback N McColm got on the end of a quick handling move to score in the left hand corner. 5 minutes later the same player was again to the fore as the Hawick side added a second try, fielding a kick deep inside his own half, skipper Neil Douglas got off his zimmer and took off like a bat out of hell before passing to young McColm, just as it looked like he was going to be forced into touch he under handed a pass inside to Keith Davies who ran in for a great team score. On the half hour mark, the home side got on the scoreboard with a penalty from their fullback which was cancelled out by a David Lowrie effort for a half time lead of 13-3.
The second half followed a similar pattern as the first with defences on top until late in the game. The young Greens pinned the Tweedsiders into their own 22 for a sustained spell of pressure. Knowing they needed a score for the losing bonus point, Peebles started to take chances and this was fatal for them. Firstly, in the 35th minute they dropped a pass which was kicked through by Hawick, Ross Gibson was first to arrive and touch down, Lowrie adding the extras. Two minutes later, Peebles again tried to open up from deep inside their own half, when a long missed pass by the stand off went to ground for Ross Armstrong to pick up and score to collect the bonus point and record a 25-3 victory.
Next game is a home match against Melrose on Saturday.

Thanks to Davy Oliver for the report