Date: Saturday, 27th August 2011
Kickoff time: 15:00
Against: Stirling County
Team: Hawks 1st XV
Location: Home
Competition: Premiership Division 1
Final score: 36 - 22 (won)

"We played an almost perfect 65 minutes," said Wright. "We played the game at pace and our skills set was good. We scored some good tries and put a lot of pressure on Stirling. Pleasing for us as well is that five of our guys were playing in the first XV for the first time." The platform for the win was provided by Tom Steven, who notched four tries, romping in with a first-half hat-trick that knocked the stuffing out of County. With a further first-half score by Ross Miller, Hawks had guaranteed a bonus point before the break. Stirling's only counter was a touchdown by Stuart Edwards. Steven rubbed salt into County's wounds by adding his fourth immediately after the interval, before Kerr Gossman ensured the lead was unassailable. Peter Jericevich bagged three conversions to complete Hawks' scoring. County improved in the last 15 minutes, but despite tries from Ben Addison, Alex Moffat and Ross Aitken, the second converted by Brian Archibald, it was always going to be too little, too late. If Hawks will be deservedly chuffed, County will be despondent. Stirling's head coach, Eddie Pollock, was nothing if not honest afterwards. "I thought we were awful," he said. "Absolutely terrible. We were naive in the extreme."  Scorers: Hawks: tries, Steven (4), Miller, K Gossman; cons, Jericevich (3). County: tries, Edwards, Addison, Moffat, Aitken; con, Archibald. Glasgow Hawks: Gossman, Steven, Kelbrick, Preece, Wright, Martin, Jericevich, Findlay, Milligan, Lohar, McKay, Ferguson, Francis, Hamilton, Miller. Subs: Williamson, MacFarlane, Kirkland, Robinson, Gossman. Stirling County: Addison, Lindsay, Gilmour, Archibald, Aitken, Edwards, Kennedy, Raby, Moffat, Hutton, McAlpine, Deacons, Swindall, Barsanti.Subs: Black, Ashe, Simpson, Bolan, Boswell. Referee: J Matthew. Team list for this match Andrew Kirkland Jack Macfarlane John Lohar Steven Findlay Tom Steven

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