Former Scotland and British Lion Scott Hastings makes a break

The event, now in it’s third year, is growing in stature and is doing a lot to raise funding to support teenagers with cancer and to raise awareness of the issues teenagers have when they are diagnosed with cancer.

The TRYumph team was made up of enthusiastic players from various clubs and aged between 18-24 took on the experience of the Scottish Legends in front of a 300 crowd- boostde thoughout the game by the Boroughmuir minis, midis, coaches and parents who added lend their voices afetr their back-field training.

After 10 minutes of aggressive, fast flowing and furious play, where neither side was willing to give an inch, the TRYumph squad saw a gap and took the lead with an unconverted try.

Play then continued for another six minutes before the Scottish Legends retaliated and scored a try of their own. Unfortunately for TRYumph the try was converted resulting in the Legends leading by 7-5.

The first-half stayed fairly consistent with both teams attacking and defending with everything they had but the experience soon overcame enthusiasm and the Legends, moving the ball around with finesse, scored a further three tries and a conversion to a single unconverted try by TRYumph, which took the score to TRYumph 10-24 Scottish Legends at the interval.

HALF TIME: TRYumph 10-24 Scottish Legends 

The second-half was no less hectic with both teams running the length of the pitch to continue the try fest (11 in total).

The second-half saw the Legends score a further three tryies and two conversions, while the lads from the TRYumph could only mirror their first-half feat two unconverted tries.

FULL TIME: TRYumph for Teenage Cancer  20  -  45   Scottish Legends

After the final whistle the two captains, Kyle McPherson (TRYumph) and Jon Petrie (Legends) both admitted that this year's match had been the most strongly contested and by far the fastest match to date. And, although battered and bruised, all the players and officials agreed that it had been an enjoyable afternoon and vowed to be back again next year.

The man of the match prize, this year, went to TRYumph’s No 8, Boroughmuir’s Calum Mackintosh.

Not only was Calum a major linchpin throughout the match, attacking and defending like a man possessed, his off pitch fundraising continued to go beyond all expectations.

The weather was kind, the facilities were superb and the rugby was of a very high and competitive standard. In addition to a high tempo and entertaining game of rugby the Boroughmuir clubhouse also played host to an array of stalls to entertain the spectators and players alike. There was Tombola, Raffles, Home Baking, Hot Food, Kit stalls, Face Painting and of course the obligatory Club House Bar.

Thanks go out to all the helpers, sponsors, organisers, players and officials. And also the spectators who came along to lend their support and cheered on the teams.

Planning for next years event will commence at the end of October and it is hoped that Boroughmuir will again support the event and that word will continue to get out so that crowd numbers continue to increase.

Information will be updated on the TRYumph website - www.tryumphfortct.co.uk