Scotland U18s finished the Six Nations Festival with two wins and a defeat
Scotland finished the Six Nations U18 Festival with a 20-13 win over Wales.
The win at Hughenden gave Scotland their first win over Wales in nine meetings in this competition. You can read a match report here

In today's other games France accounted for Italy 34-7 and England beat Ireland 23-12. Thus the festival concluded with all four home countries winning two out of three games; France winning one game and the Italians losing all three of their games.

Scotland U19 crashed to a third consecutive defeat in the IRB U19 World Championship in Belfast with a 25-23 loss to Fiji. The result follows a 11-6 defeat to France and a 13-12 loss at the hands of Ireland.

Coach Peter Wright was understandably disappointed at the result. He said: "I'm just gutted by the whole thing. It's heartbreaking. We didn't play as well as we did in the first two games but we really should have won this one. Basic errors let us down but we still deserved to win it.

"We managed to score three tries but the intensity that we'd achieved in the first two matches just couldn't be matched tonight. They are young guys but they have to learn the lessons in a tournament like this – if there's a chance to win a game then we need to take it. We didn't tonight," he added.

Scotland's tries came from winger Lee Jones, scrum-half Ross Samson and replacement Harry Duthie. Inside centre Stephen McColl kicked one conversion and two penalties.

Wright said: "It looks like we'll play Samoa in the fourth game on Tuesday so we need to look ahead to that now. They'll be another big, physical team so we have to be ready for that."

Glasgow Hawks went out of the Melrose Sevens at the quarter-final stage, losing 24-5 to eventual finalists Newcastle Falcons. Wins over Currie and Dundee gave Hawks a place in the last eight where Ayr lost out to Oxford University after victories over Boroughmuir and Edinburgh Accies in the first two rounds. Newcastle were beaten by Shimlas in the final, the South Africans winning 17-10.

This article was posted on 15-Apr-2007, 12:16 by Hugh Barrow.