Weekend Sport – Sat/Sun 24/25th February

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Rugby:  No 1st XV rugby this weekend while everyone took in Scotland’s Calcutta Cup victory over England and the pre match lunch at MES.

From the wider Stew Mel perspective the notable achievement of the rugby weekend was the Scotland under 20s 24-17 win over England under 20s on Friday evening.  Wins for Scotland at this level have been as rare as those of the senior XV.   The Scotland team included SMC’s last two 1st XV captains Jamie Hodgson (2015/16) and Ross Thompson (2016/17).  Congratulations to both and hopefully their rugby careers continue to progress although both have university courses as a “distraction”.

Saturday’s 1st XV match is away to bottom of the league Falkirk with a 3pm start.

Hockey:  Hockey made its return from the winter break with two commanding wins – The Ladies 1st team defeated Dundee University 6-0 in NL2 and the Mens 1st team had a 3-0 success over FMGM Monarchs.

Football & Golf: They have been mentioned previously in our weekly reports so it did not go unnoticed that Euan Henderson started for Hearts at Ibrox on Saturday and Grant Forrest qualified for the final two rounds of the senior European Golf Tour’s Qatar Masters.  His rounds of 70,70,74,68 for a 6 under par 282 total earned him further “Road to Dubai” points.