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Gala welcomed Hawick to Netherdale on Saturday for a pre-season friendly warm-up game.

Round seven of the Moslon British F1 Sidecar Championship saw a return to Cadwell Park for the second time this year, this time as part of the BSB series.

This year’s Live Borders Triathlon made a reappearance last weekend at Kelso, following its summer break.

The 2019 Border Games summer series came to a conculsion last weekend at the Tofts in Morebattle.

Last weekend’s Festival of Rugby at Mansfield Park incorporated Hawick RFC’s first August staging of its Ned Haig Kings of the Sevens round.

If you were at the Hawick 7s last Saturday, you may have seen Borders Women & Girls Rugby (BWGR) running one of its ‘Pitch up and Play’ sessions.

Simon Fairburn swapped his golf clubs for a cricket bat to help Gala squeeze past Selkirk and into a Border 2020 final.

Bowlers from Abbotsford ‘A’, above, recently secured the Henderson Grass Machinery First Division title with a game still to play.

Congratulations have been conveyed to the Border Ladies Top 10 bowls team, sponsored by Cullen Kilshaw, on winning the regional finals against Bridge of Allan at Sighthill on Saturday.

Galashiels teenager Jack McDonald has earned himself a trip to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

Newcastleton’s Stephen Clegg, one third of a famous set of Paralympic sporting siblings, is among a strong British squad heading to the London 2019 World Para Swimming Allianz Championships.

There was some excellent running, hotly-competed races, heavy rain and bright sunshine.

The inaugural Scottish Borders Hill Race Weekend spanned August 9-11 as a three-race series, comprising the Meigle Mile in Galashiels, the Cademuir Rollercoaster in Peebles and the Philiphaugh Hill Run in Selkirk.

Torrential rain did little to dampen the enthusiasm of the participants of the Live Borders Triathlon Series event in Kelso on Sunday.

Hawick’s rugby sevens survived the Borders Festival of Rugby at the weekend, when Jed-Forest showed the club means business ahead of the XV-a-side season.

Over the weekend, the FPSG Scottish Athletics Age Groups took place at Grangemouth, with a couple of Chirnside Chasers athletes taking part.

The thrilling prospect of Hawick duo Darcy Graham and Stuart Hogg playing together for Scotland for the first time looks set to be realised this weekend.

Hockey player Sarah Robertson drew on her reserves of skill and experience at the weekend to help propel Scotland’s women to A-Division status – and a gold medal – after the EuroHockey Championship II final.

Hawick was hit by torrential rain on Saturday, which hit the numbers attending the rugby club’s biggest day of the season.