BT Cup Round -Up
February 8, 2003

Glasgow Hawks produced a remarkable second-half fightback to clinch a 31-14 win at Mansfield Park to earn revenge for last season's final defeat by Hawick.

The Anniesland men trailed 14-6 at the break, but capitalised on the breeze to run out easy victors.

Their touchdowns came from veteran Cammy Little, Wes Henry and Colin Shaw, while Craig Hodgkinson was in fine form with the boot to land two conversions and four penalties.

The only Hawick score had been snapped up by David Callam, with Neil Stenhouse bagging a penalty hat-trick.

Melrose cruised into the semi-finals of the BT Cup with a clinical win 30-9 against the Wanderers on the back-pitches of the national stadium.

To compound the home side's misery, centre Chris Dove was sent off after receiving two yellow cards in quick succession for killing the ball on the deck.

Two early tries by Jamie Murray and Kacey Mitchell settled Melrose and they added touchdowns through Stephen Broom and Geoff Caldwell. Scott Ruthven landed the rest with conversions and penalties.

Wanderers had to rely on three penalties by Carl McWilliam to get on the scoresheet.

Boroughmuir will be without controversial prop Tommy McGee for the climax of their Premier title charge after he was red-carded in their replayed BT Cup 42-17 victory over Stirling County.

McGee, who only returned to the Muir side three weeks ago in the wake of a six-month jail term for assault, was sent off for his part in a bust-up with County sub Gavin Blackburn, who was sin-binned.

The dismissal took the gloss off the Meggetland side's comprehensive success after last week's tussle was abandoned by snow with the scores level.

Muir's tries came from Malcolm Clapperton, Olo Brown, Charlie Keenan, David Cunningham and Rory Couper, with Ally Warnock kicking the other points.

Stirling could only reply with tries by David Adamson, Colin McPhail and Sam Parlane, Ian Noble converting one.

Peebles recorded a 39-22 win against Aberdeen and in doing so sent the northerners spinning out of the BT Cellnet Cup.

Grammar never recovered from a blistering five-minute spell just before and after half time when the Borderers ran in tries from winger Adam Moffat and lock Robbie Cumming following quickly by a Colin Twigley effort.

Full-back Chris Foster added two for good measure while stand-off Scott Nicholl kicked four conversions and two penalties to complete a miserable day for the home side.

Even the immensely influential home full-back Rod Seib scored two tries could not save the day. Winger Ben Price and number eight Alastair Thompson added late tries for the well-beaten home side.

Fallen giants West of Scotland grabbed a quarter-final slot with a tense 21-18 triumph over Haddington in a cracker at Burnbrae.

The lead changed hands no fewer than six times in the all-action encounter.

Nicky Craig, the youngest of former Celtic European Cup hero Jim's rugby-playing sons, was the home hero.

He claimed their third and most crucial try five minutes from time and slotted two important penalties. The other West touchdowns came from Graham Thomson and Ian McKinnon.

Haddington's counters came from each of their Kiwis, Campbell Te Rito and Mark Verner, while Scott Brownlee kicked the rest of their points in vain.

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