Duns Amateurs extend 100% start to new Border Amateur Football Association A division season to five fixtures

Jordan Yardley and Alan Jess both scored twice for manager James Brydon’s Dingers at their New Hawthorn Park home ground, with Lee Dodd getting one back for the visiting Northumbrians.

That latest win takes the nine-time A division champions three points clear of Gala Fairydean Rovers Amateurs at the top of the table on 15 points from five fixtures.

Fairydean’s ammies are on 12 points from six games, with Tweeddale Rovers third on ten from six, Highfields fourth on nine from six and Kelso Thistle fifth on eight from four.

At the opposite end of the table, basement side Earlston Rhymers and second-from-bottom Greenlaw are both on three points from five matches.

Duns’ eighth win on the trot in all competitions was one of three top-flight fixtures played on Saturday, the others being a 4-3 victory for Tweeddale away to Eyemouth United Amateurs and a 1-0 defeat for Leithen Rovers hosting Stow.

Robbie McNaughton, Luke MacLean and Jordan Sykes scored for Tweeddale on the North Sea coast and an own goal also went the way of the Peebles outfit. Eyemouth’s scorers were Daniel Blackie at the double and Tayler Colvine.

Jordan Steele got the only goal of the game for Stow in Innerleithen.

Those three games were accompanied by five B division fixtures and the same number of Scottish Amateur Cup first-round ties involving association clubs.

The former yielded wins by 6-2 for table-toppers Tweedmouth Amateurs at Hawick United, 3-2 for Langholm Legion away to Lowick United and 2-1 for Coldstream Amateurs hosting Hawick Waverley, along with draws for Selkirk Victoria at Jedburgh and Ancrum Reivers and Hawick Legion at St Boswells with respective scorelines of 0-0 and 1-1.

Greenlaw and Gala Hotspur were the only Borderers to win their cup ties, by 3-2 hosting a Berwickshire derby against Chirnside United and 4-1 away to West Lothian Community respectively, but Kelso Thistle also go through as prospective opponents Tillicoutry forfeited their scheduled game because they were unable to muster a team for that planned trip south.

Fairydean lost 1-0 hosting Inverkeithing’s Swifts, Earlston were beaten 9-1 at home to Bonnybridge’s Steins Thistle and Berwick Town went out 7-2 to Edinburgh visitors Gilmerton.

Five A division fixtures are lined up for this coming Saturday, along with six a division down.

Those top-flight matches take Eyemouth to Duns, Leithen Rovers to Earlston, Kelso to Highfields, Greenlaw to Stow and Chirnside to Tweeddale.

Saturday’s B division fixtures take Selkirk to Berwick Town, Tweedmouth to Hawick Legion, Lowick to Hawick United, Hotspur to Waverley, Reivers to Langholm and Coldstream to St Boswells.

Ten of those 11 games kick off at 2pm but St Boswells’ match at home to Coldstream starts quarter of an hour later.