Updated: ​Final countdown under way for f​our Border Amateur Football Association sides after last-four wins

​Gala Fairydean Rovers Amateurs will play Chirnside United in this season’s Forsyth Cup final on a date to be fixed.

Fairydean’s ammies booked their place with a 4-3 penalty shootout victory away to Kelso Thistle at Woodside Park after ending open play tied at 2-2.

Their scorers were Michael Jamieson and Ewan McLaren.

Chirnside won their semi-final away to Tweeddale Rovers by 3-2, thanks to two goals from Sean Lackenby and one from Robert Reid.

Leithen Rovers made it to the final of this year’s Beveridge Cup with a 3-0 win at home to Eyemouth United Amateurs and they’ll be up against either Ancrum or Berwick’s Highfields United on a date to be arranged.

Greg Zokas scored twice for Rovers at their Victoria Park home ground in Innerleithen, with Bailey Simmons also netting.

Ancrum and Highfields’ semi-final at the weekend was abandoned midway through its second half, with the scoreline still at 0-0, due to worsening weather conditions and has been rearranged for Saturday, May 4.

Hawick Legion were knocked out of 2024’s Border Cup by a 1-0 semi-final defeat away to Biggar United and their South Lanarkshire hosts will play either Earlston Rhymers or Langlee Amateurs in the final on a date to be fixed.

Earlston and Langlee’s scheduled last-four tie on Saturday was postponed to Tuesday, April 30, due to the former’s Runciman Park home ground being waterlogged.

Six league fixtures were also scheduled for Saturday, with four going ahead, one in the association’s A division and three in its B division.

The former was a 1-0 defeat for Hawick Waverley on the road at Tweedmouth Amateurs.

Kenton Bloomfield scored the only goal of that game at Berwick Sports and Leisure Centre to lift the Northumbrians up one place to third from bottom, on 17 points from 18 fixtures.

Waverley remain fourth in the top flight, with 29 points from 21 matches.

The B division’s three matches yielded 21 goals between them, the highest-scoring being Hawick United’s 11-1 demolition of Coldstream Amateurs at home at a rain-lashed Wilton Lodge Park.

Kevin Strathdee scored a hat-trick for United, with Martin Goldie, Louis Johnstone and Aaron Swailes getting doubles and Andrew Coyle and Jamie Graham also netting.

The next-biggest scoreline of the day was a 4-2 win for basement side Selkirk Victoria at home to Lauder, second from bottom at kick-off but now up to 11th.

The Souters’ scorers – earning them only their second win of the season 20 games in and taking their tally of points to seven – were Tyler Hayes at the double, Blair Turner and Davie Deans.

Saturday’s other B division game was a 3-0 defeat for Gala Hotspur at home to Jed Legion, thanks to Dean Jeffrey, Robbie Amos and Stephen Davidson’s goals for the visitors.

Four B division matches followed last night, April 16, with two in the A division scheduled for tonight, a home game for Duns Amateurs against Newtown and a trip to Earlston for Chirnside.

​Tuesday’s fixtures yielded 20 goals between them, with one, Hawick United’s visit to Gala Hotspur, hitting double figures on its own.

​The 6-4 scoreline for that match at Galashiels Public Park went the visitors’ way.

Goldie got a hat-trick for United, with Coyle and Strathdee also finding the back of the net.

The next biggest scoreline of the evening was Kelso’s 6-0 thumping of Coldstream at home.

Shane Bonnington scored twice for the hosts, with Liam Hill, Liam Howell, Kyle Blaikie and Alex Gibbs also netting.

Tuesday’s other games were a 3-0 victory for Ancrum hosting Jed and a 1-0 win for Leithen Rovers away to Selkirk.

Sean Clarke scored twice for Ancrum and Joe Ngoa got their other goal.

Leithen Rovers’ goal-scorer in Selkirk was Jonathan Lea.

Tuesday’s results leave Hawick United third in the table, with 46 points from 20 fixtures; Ancrum fourth, on 41 from 21; Leithen Rovers fifth, on 37 from 18; Kelso eighth, on 27 from 22; Jed tenth, on 17 from 20, Coldstream second from bottom, on ten from 19; and Vics still bottom, on seven from 21.

Last night’s scheduled A division fixtures were a home game for Duns Amateurs against Newtown and a trip to Earlston for Chirnside.

A cup final, quarter-final tie and five league games make up this coming Saturday’s fixture card.

The final is for the South of Scotland Amateur Cup and it sees Langlee Amateurs take on Lanark’s Kirkfield United at Netherdale in Galashiels.

The other cup game is a last-eight tie for Duns Amateurs at home to Earlston Rhymers, with the winners away to Newtown in the semis on Saturday, April 27.

Two A division matches see Hawick Legion away to Tweeddale Rovers and Biggar United hosting Langholm Legion.

In the B division, Hawick United host St Boswells, Hotspur are at home to Kelso and Leithen Rovers are on the road at Coldstream.

All Saturday’s fixtures kick off at 2pm.