2-1 win for Leithen Rovers at St Boswells earns Border Amateur Football Association B division title

The Innerleithen outfit’s 17th win in 18 fixtures so far this term keeps up their unbeaten record, the odd one out having been a 1-1 draw hosting Stow back in August, and takes them ten points clear of Biggar United at the top of the table.

Manager Steven Notman’s Rovers, fifth-placed finishers last time round, are now on 52 points, with Biggar on 42, also from 18 games, and third-placed Stow on 37 from 16.

Their second B division title, following another back in 2001, secures their promotion to the association’s A division after ten years away. It also earns them their first trophy of any description since their top-flight title win of 2016.

Saturday’s win is their lowest-scoring of the season to date, four of its predecessors having hit double figures and a further eight seeing them score at least a handful of goals.

They’ve netted 101 league goals thus far this season, conceding only a dozen at the other end of the pitch.

Their double-figure scorelines were victories by 7-3 away to Hawick Legion in August, 9-1 at home to Hawick Waverley and Jed Legion in October and 10-0 at Selkirk Victoria in November.

Their other five-goal-plus hauls were racked up during wins by 6-2 at Biggar, 6-0 at Jed and 5-0 at Coldstream Amateurs in August; 7-0 hosting St Boswells and 6-1 at home to Coldstream at Victoria Park in November; 8-0 at home to Tweedmouth Amateurs in February; and 5-0 and 6-0 respectively hosting Hawick Legion and Selkirk earlier this month.

Rovers’ remaining games are away to Stow and Gala Hotspur, with dates to be fixed.

Their scorers at Jenny Moore’s Road at the weekend were Greg Zokas and Connor Thorburn after Cammy Fair had put their hosts in front.

That was one of three B division games played, the others being wins by 5-0 for Selkirk at home to Waverley and 1-0 for Jed hosting Hawick Legion.

Oliver McClymont scored twice for Selkirk at their Yarrow Park home ground, with Finlay Wheelans, Josh Miller and Jack Deans on target too.

Lewis Turnbull put away the only goal of the game at Jedburgh’s Elliot Park.

They were accompanied by A division victories for Earlston Rhymers away to Highfields United in Berwick, by 4-3, and Gala Fairydean Rovers Amateurs at home to Kelso Thistle, by 2-0, plus a 5-0 Forsyth Cup quarter-final knockout of Chirnside United on the road by Hotspur.

Jack Bell and Declan Bell notched up hat-tricks for Rhymers and Hostpur respectively, with Max Brydon also netting for the former and Luke Gierus and Ritchie Ritchie for the latter and Kai and Lee Macrae scoring for Fairydean’s ammies.