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Weekend Sport – Sat 22nd Sept. Rugby – Another win for 1sts

Lasswade  13   Stewart’s Melville RFC   17 A narrow away at Lasswade took the 1sts up to fourth place on 14 points in National League 2 after four matches in the current campaign.   Biggar lead the way on 19 points followed by Highland on 16 and Peebles on 15. Match report here  http://www.stewmelrugby.com/match-report-vs-lasswade-rfc-saturday-22nd-september-2018/ […]

Weekend Sport – Saturday 15th Sept. Rugby – Big win for 1st XV

Stewart’s Melville RFC     40    Glasgow Academicals    15 The 1st XV recorded a resounding win against Accies, promoted from the District Leagues last season after initially going 10-0 down.    With two wins on the board now the club look forward to the coming matches with more confidence and hopefully a continuation […]

Weekend Sport – Sat 8th September. Rugby – 1st XV at Biggar

Biggar    32    Stewart’s Melville RFC    3 Following an opening win against Whitecraigs the 1sts headed to Biggar for the second match of the league season in National 2.   In seasons past Biggar has rarely proved a happy hunting ground and so it proved once again.    Playing with a following wind […]

Weekend Sport – Sat 25th August. Cricket / Rugby / Golf

Cricket:    Grange  344 for four (50 overs);  Stewart’s Melville CC   154 for nine (50 Overs).   Lost by 180 runs. The 2018 cricket season drew to a close for the club with a final league match against Grange, the new league champions, at Raeburn Place.   With ninth place secured a fortnight earlier […]

Weekend Sport – Saturday 11th August. Cricket – 1st XI win

Stewart’s Melville CC 226 for 9 (50 0vers); Glenrothes 138 all out (35.3 overs) There was one result we wanted on Saturday – a win to secure our East Premiership status. This we did by 88 runs, but it wasn’t all plain sailing. On losing the toss, a rare event this season, not surprisingly we […]

Weekend Sport – Sat 4th August. Cricket 1st XI v Carlton

At Inverleith – Carlton  245 for seven (50 overs);   Stewart’s Melville CC    72 all out (26.2 overs) Notwithstanding our earlier league win against Carlton Saturday’s match ended with another comprehensive defeat for the 1st XI.    Adam McHoul stood in as captain for the unavailable Greg Ruthven and Steven Parker.   With Kyle […]

Weekend Sport – Sat 14th July. Cricket 1st XI at Forfarshire

Stewart’s Melville CC     90 all out (34.3 overs);    Forfarshire    91 for 2  (13.3 overs) At hot and sunny Broughty Ferry, Captain Greg Ruthven won the toss and chose to bat first but thereafter things did not go quite as planned.   Openers Hayden Sweet and Greg Bissett batted with care and […]