SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY REPORTS
BT CUP ROUND-UP
STUART SUTHERLAND
WEST of Scotland and Dunfermline were dumped out the BT Cup by lower league opposition, while East Kilbride and Berwick almost lost as well.

Preston Lodge stunned Dunfermline with a 27-17 win. Elgin O'Donnell and Thomas Logan scored tries, and Dean Jones kicked 17 points from five penalties and a conversion. Ben Mallinson got a try for the visitors, and Steven McCool had four penalties, but PL held on.


West gave themselves a mountain to climb, going 11-0 down at Ardrossan after only ten minutes, and by half-time it was 14-0. Stevie O'Donnell kicked a couple of penalties, but Alan Wilson added one for the home side - his fourth - before young prop Ross McCallum was up in support to score. John Shaw got a try for West, but Brian Hendrie added his second touchdown for Ardrossan to take them through by 27-11.

John Goldie had a try and Robert Simpson a penalty to put Dalziel ahead against EK, but 17-year-old stand-off Scott Dalgleish kicked a penalty, and with ten minutes to go, calmly kicked the conversion that made it 10-8 after Fraser McKinnon had scored a drive-over try.

It was even closer at Hamilton, where Berwick had the better of the first half, but led only 3-0 thanks to a Mattie McCreath penalty. Hamilton began to string phases together, and went ahead when Ati Olive touched down a pushover try. Back came Berwick, and full-back Seb Trotter used his scorching pace to grab a stoppage time try to take the visitors through by 8-5.

Holders Boroughmuir made the short trip across Edinburgh to Forrester FP and scored 13 tries with a hat-trick for Stephen Ruddick and two each for Malcolm Clapperton, Angus Martyn and Rory Couper. Debutant stand-off Toby O'Reilly also crossed, while Andy Hadden kicked nine conversions to make it 83-0.

Premier 3 Ellon gave a good account of themselves when GHA visited, but the Glasgow men had the cutting edge behind the scrum and eventually won 29-14. Craig Nicol had a try and Mark Ryan had three penalties for Ellon, while Rory Watson, Neil Casey, Ross West and Graeme Harkness crossed for GHA, with Martin Dunn adding nine points from the boot.

Stirling were just too sharp and supported each other well, to beat Kilmarnock 31-5. Alan Syme had two tries, while Ben Addison, Bruce McFarlane and Dylan Mason had one apiece, before Stewart Pratt saved face for Killie with a late try.

Hawick thumped RHC 68-0, with both props, Bruce McNeil and Willie Blacklock, scoring two tries apiece.

Premier 1 leaders Glasgow Hawks were clinical in disposing of lowly Dunbar 70-3. Gordon McFadyen and Sean Fell each had two tries from the total of 11, while Dunbar's penalty hero was Jamie Peters.

Heriots led Howe of Fife 34-0 at half-time, but lost their edge in the second period, adding only one further score to make it 39-0. Jamie Syme had two of the seven Heriots tries.

Hawks take a week off from Premiership One action to make the trip east for their BT Cup tie with Dunbar.
They'll be without Kenny Sinclair after he suffered a broken arm for the second time in six months.

The former Glasgow pro scrum-half sustained the repeat injury while helping Glasgow Hawks surge to their Premiership Sevens title at Murrayfield last week.

It was Kenny's first outing since being hit by the original fracture during the end-of-season Carrickfergus short-game tournament in Northern Ireland in May.

Hawks spokesman Hugh Barrow said:"Kenny will be in plaster for about six weeks and it is hard to estimate when he might be back in action."

This article was originally posted on 4-Dec-2005, 09:02 by Hugh Barrow.
Last updated by Hugh Barrow on 4-Dec-2005, 15:01.