Hawick Sevens – 18/4/26

The Hawick Sevens, this year, was played on a traditional 16 team knock-out format with 10 player squads. Melrose defeated Langholm 50-0 in the First Round before beating Edinburgh Accies 27-14 in the Quarter Finals and Hawick 26-12 in the Semi-final. The Final was played against Edinburgh University with Melrose winning by 31-7.

First Round – Kelso 17 Gala 12; Selkirk 5 Newcastle Red Bulls 26; Edinburgh University 40 Hawick Force 7; Boroughmuir 28 Heriots 17; Peebles 0 Hawick 26; Jed-Forest bye; MELROSE 50 Langholm 0; Watsonians 4 Edinburgh Accies 35.

Quarter Finals – Kelso 14 Newcastle Red Bulls 26; E3dinburgh University 26 Boroughmuir 24; Hawick 33 Jed-Forest 19; MELROSE 27 Edinburgh Accies 14.

Semi-finals – Newcastle Red Bulls 19 Edinburgh University 43; Hawick 12 MELROSE 26.

Final – Edinburgh University 7 MELROSE 31.

MELROSE Squad – Douglas Crawford, Corey Goldsbrough, Paddy Anderson©, Bruce Clvine, Scott Clark, Ru Campbell, Donald Crawford, Matty Klein, Declan Mulcahy & Connor Spence.

Player of the Tournament: Douglas Crawford

Berwick Sevens – 19/4/26

This tournament was scheduled to be played with four pools of three teams each. Unfortunately, there was an absence of one of the teams from each of pools A & C with the two remaining teams being asked to play each other twice, hence Melrose beating Boroughmuir 24-14 at the first time of asking and 33-12 at the second time. Melrose then defeated Selkirk 47-12 in the Semi-final. The Final, against Kelso, was a closely fought affair with Melrose leading 19-12 with a minute remaining before Archie Barbour nipped in for a converted try to level the scores at no-side. Extra time was then played with Donald Crawford scoring the “golden” try to give Melrose the victory 24-19.

Pool “A” – MELROSE 24 Boroughmuir 14; MELROSE 33 Boroughmuir 12

Semi-finals – MELROSE 47 Selkirk 12; Jed-Forest 7 Kelso 40.

Final – MELROSE 24 Kelso 19 (A.E.T.)

Player of the Tournament: Ru Campbell

MELROSE Squad – Douglas Crawford, Harry Makowski, Connor Spence, Bruce Colvine, Donald Crawford, Sam Derrick, Ru Campbell, Matty Klein, Scott Clark, Corey Goldsbrough, Declan Mulcahy & Paddy Anderson©.

Winners at Berwick 7s for the 3rd year in a row!

Kings of the Sevens – after four rounds:-

MELROSE 37‍ ‍
Kelso 22
Edinburgh Accies 21
Jed-Forest 11
Boroughmuir 9
Watsonians 8
Hawick 8
Selkirk 8
Edinburgh University 7
Gala 6
Peebles 5
Heriots 3

Kings of the Sevens, Rounds 3 & 4 - Hawick & Berwick

Maroon’d @ Gala - Gala 7s