Roan Frostwick and Rory McHaffie on scoresheet at Cape Town Sevens
Borderer Ciaran Beattie’s Great Britain’s rugby sevens team ended up sixth at the weekend’s Cape Town Sevens, the second round of this season.
The Souter’s side lost all three of their pool games on Saturday – by 29-12 to New Zealand, 21-17 to Fiji and 41-7 to hosts South Africa – but beat Spain 29-10 on Sunday before losing a fifth-place play-off against the All Blacks by 27-12 later that day.
Former Peebles full-back Rory McHaffie, on for all but the last minute, scored one of GB’s two tries in their concluding match, with Ryan Apps touching down the other.
McHaffie, 18, also played for the first half of their win against the Spanish but didn’t make it onto the scoresheet, though ex-Melrose scrum-half Roan Frostwick, on for 11 minutes of the 14, did, with a conversion.
Frostwick, 25, also scored and converted his team’s only try against South Africa the day before after being brought on as a 12th-minute replacement, two minutes after McHaffie.
The former Greenyards player kicked Britain’s only conversion versus Fiji too after being brought on as a third-minute substitute and he was joined by McHaffie that time round as well, just ahead of the final whistle.
The Britons’ opening match against New Zealand also saw Frostwick’s name on the scoresheet, with one of their two tries, the other being touched down by Charlton Kerr, and their only conversion.
Frostwick played for the first 12 minutes of that match and McHaffie for the full monty.
Singapore hosts round three of this season’s HSBC-sponsored world sevens series at the end of January and start of February.