Melrose Sevens-Hammies takes Title


HAMILTON became the 2010 winners of the Melrose Sevens on Saturday after an exciting display of fast running rugby. Thousands gathered at The Greenyards on what was the hottest day of the year so far and the action on the field sizzled as a compliment.



One by one the Borders teams dropped out of contention leaving South African guest sides University of Johannesburg and Hamiltons to lock horns in the final for a Southern Hemisphere show down. In a pulsating match it was Johannesburgs Lola Waka who started the scoring after two minutes with Derick Badenhorst adding another five pointer just seconds later. Earl Lewis converted both. Hamilton came back in kind with Gerhard Vos and Alshaun Bock running over the line and Jason de Villiers making the conversions. Hamilton crossed again with Terry Jacobs doing the honours but Galashiels referee Ian Heard disallowed the try after spotting a double movement. No sooner had that been decided then the ball was back down the other end of the field with Lewis making the running before Waka ran in for his second. Lewis converted making the half time score 21-14 in favour of the University side.



Unsurprisingly the pace was slightly slower in the second half and it took three minutes for the first score. Bock again was the scorer for Hamilton with Jacobs converting, tying the scores.
Johannesburg were having none of it however and when that man Lewis got the ball again he sprinted half the length of the park before passing to Waka to touch down.



The show went on and a neat flip pass from Jandre du Plessis was collected by Vos who scored under the posts. Jacobs converted and Hamilton went in front for the first time in the game. With time running out both teams strove for a second wind to clinch the honours and it was Cape Town side Hamilton who did it with De Villiers touching down and Jacobs converting to put his team in possession of the Ladies Cup for the first time ever.



Best for the Borders were Selkirk and Melrose who made it through to the quarter-final stages before being ousted by Johannesburg and Hamilton respectively.



Teams:


University of Johannesburg: K. Jacobs, E. Marutilulle, J. Swanepoel, L. Waka, D. Badenhorst, J. P Rensberg, E. Tonder, A. McDonal, C. de Klerk, E. Lewis.



Hamilton:


Alshaun Bock, Jandre du Plessis, Jacques Rossouw, Terry Jacobs, Jason de Villiers, Elric van Vuuren, Jeffrey Williams, Stephan du Toit, Francois Prinsloo, Gerhard Vos.



Results:


First Round:

Gala 10 Stirling County 19; Stewarts Melville 21 Boroughmuir 24; Hawick 31 Currie 17; Heriotss FP 29 Glasgow Hawks 14; Kelso 26 Edinburgh Accies 14; Langholm 12 West of Scotland 29; Dundee HSFP 17 Peebles 22 (AET); Jed-Forest 24 Aberdeen GSFP 19.



Second Round:


Stirling County 14 Selkirk 24; Boroughmuir 12 University of Johannesburg 29; Hawick 5 Watsonians 42; Heriots 21 Cambridge University 17; Kelso 19 West of Scotland 17; Peebles 0 Melrose 45; Jed-Forest 0 Hamilton 33.

Quarter-Finals:


Selkirk 12 University of Johannesburg 19; Watsonians 7 Heriots FP 29; Kelso 12 The Army 35; Melrose 14 Hamilton 17.

Semi-Finals:


University of Johannesburg 17 Heriots FP 5; The Army 5 Hamilton 35.

Final:


Hamiltons 35 University of Johannesburg 26





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