Duns Amateurs stay top of table after hitting Northumbrians for six
Duns Amateurs remain top of the Border Amateur Football Association’s A division after hitting Berwick’s Highfields United for six on Saturday.
That 6-1 victory the other side of the English border extends manager James Brydon’s Dingers’ unbeaten start to this season to 13 games, 12 of them wins, leaving them on 37 points out of a possible 39.
Second-placed Tweeddale Rovers are keeping up their title challenge after edging out third-placed Chirnside United 4-3 at home in Peebles at the weekend but they’ve played two matches more.
Fourth-placed Langlee Amateurs saw their title defence falter further meanwhile as they lost out 2-1 at home to basement side Langholm Legion.
Those results leave Tweeddale on 36 points from 15 fixtures, Chirnside on 29 from 16 and Langlee on 25 from 14.
Three other A division games were played on Saturday – a 3-3 draw for Eyemouth United Amateurs hosting Hawick United and wins by 3-0 for Greenlaw away to Gala Fairydean Rovers Amateurs and 3-2 for Kelso Thistle at home to Earlston Rhymers.
Three more follow this coming Saturday – trips to Chirnside for Duns, to Hawick United for Langlee and to Eyemouth for Highfields – along with three B division fixtures, all kicking off at 2pm, and four cup ties starting half an hour earlier.
Those B division fixtures take Hawick Waverley to Coldstream Amateurs, Tweedmouth Amateurs to Leithen Rovers and Gala Hotspur to Selkirk Victoria.
Kelso host Hawick Legion for a Colin Campbell Cup quarter-final and Greenlaw, Stow and Biggar are respectively at home to Jed Legion, Langholm and Tweeddale in round one of this season’s Forsyth Cup.