Former pupil Grant Forrest (24) came close to winning a first professional golf tournament on the European Challenge Tour this weekend in the Costa del Sol Matchplay 9 event in Malaga, Spain. The first 36 holes of the tournament were played on a conventional strokeplay basis with the leading 64 players qualifying for matchplay with […]
The annual golf match for the Peter Mann Trophy between pre merger former pupils of Daniel Stewart’s College and Melville College took place at Bruntsfield Links on Friday 18th May. The match was played 12-a-side in Greensomes foursomes format with the “Mellies” retaining the cup by 4 1/2 matches to 1 1/2. Peter’s grandson Richard […]
The Cricket Club had a double header of a weekend. Saturday saw the visit on Premier League business of the highly rated Forfarshire side who included two of Scotland’s batsmen from the recent World Cup qualifying tournament. Batting first the 1st XI totalled 128 in 40 overs and despite removing one the aforesaid […]
The Cricket Club took on last year’s League Champions Heriot’s on Saturday at Inverleith in the East Premier League. Batting first after 33 overs the visitors were 93 for 5 having lost all their top order bats. Remarkably Stew Mel in their reply had exactly the same score after 33 overs having recovered […]
League Season starts for club 1st XI. The new league season started for the club’s 1st XI on Saturday at Arbroath. Now playing under the Stewart’s Melville badge again the change in name didn’t change the team’s fortunes against Arbroath, league runners up of 2017. Arbroath batting first accumulated 222 for 7 in […]
National League Cup Semi-Final: Kelso 7 Stewart’s Melville RFC 0 Following confirmation of relegation to NL2 the club’s cup run came to an end in a match producing a solitary score just before half-time. On Saturday we meet Kelso again at Inverleith, 3pm in a league match postponed earlier but too late […]
Rugby: Stewart’s Melville 10 Gala 15 On Saturday we hosted a Gala team who had provided us with one of our three league wins this season. On this occasion and 7-5 up at half-time the visitors always seemed to have the measure this time around although the opportunity […]
The Annual Golf Club dinner took place in the clubhouse on Friday 23rd March. Over seventy members and guests enjoyed the evening chaired by captain Adam Preedy. Jim Robertson was a thoroughly entertaining guest speaker with stories from his work as a Procurator Fiscal throughout Scotland.
Rugby: Selkirk 28 Stewarts Melville RFC 5 A disappointing outcome for the 1st XV who were pretty much in the last chance saloon as regards avoiding relegation from NL1 at the end of the season. This Saturday sees a home game v Gala (3pm) with Scottish coach Gregor Townsend a […]
Rugby: Stewart’s Melville RFC 17 GHA 31 It was something of a surprise that Saturday’s game took place at all. Conditions were as bad as any seen previously for a match at Inverleith. Visitors GHA adapted to the weather rather better to start with and opened up a 19 point lead before […]