Jed strive to stretch lead
DAVID FERGUSON

THE sevens tournaments at Langholm and Peebles will go ahead this weekend without the refereeing chaos which threatened to disrupt the Hawick tournament.

Hawick were down to just two local whistlers for their annual sevens tournament last Saturday and were raging when the SRU told the club they could not help. Hawick were forced to look south of the border and the tournament went ahead only after referees from Durham made the trip to Mansfield to help out.


The concern was the result of a series of rearranged league fixtures and cup ties taking precedence, but a clutch of Scotland's leading referees are back on sevens duty at Milntown today where Jed-Forest will strive to increase their 12-point lead over Selkirk in the race for the Kings of the Sevens title after winning at Berwick on Sunday, and reaching the semi-finals at Gala and quarters at Melrose.

Langholm Sevens (first tie 2pm): Peebles v GHA, Glasgow Hawks v Melrose, Perthshire v Edinburgh Accies, Berwick v Jed-Forest, Gala v Kelso, Selkirk v Newcastle, Langholm v Haddington, Hawick v Watsonians

This article was posted on 22-Apr-2006, 11:26 by Hugh Barrow.