Updated again: ​Langlee Amateurs do double with Beveridge Cup win against title rivals Duns

​Their 5-1 victory against their title rivals at Netherdale in Galashiels was secured by four goals scored by Des Sutherland, taking his tally for the season just ended to 53 in 36 fixtures and earning him the association’s golden boot for the campaign, and one by Jack Hay, with Liam Longstaff replying for the champions.

It saw them retain that trophy, having won it last year too, for the first time, with a 4-1 victory against Chirnside United at New Hawthorn Park in Duns.

That result saw Langlee rack up a winning double – having already claimed one trophy earlier this campaign, the inaugural Colin Campbell Cup, thanks to a 4-0 win over Duns in Hawick in August last year – and deny the Dingers a quadruple.

Duns’ other silverware successes this season besides their eighth A division title, secured by a margin of two points, were a 4-2 victory against Greenlaw earlier this month in Greenlaw to claim the Waddell Cup for the fifth time and a 7-5 victory at home to Langlee at the end of October to pick up the Border Cup for the fourth time.

Saturday’s result also saw Langlee take their head-to-head record against Duns to four wins to two this campaign, two of their six meetings having been in the league and four in cups.

Their other cup tie besides August’s Colin Campbell Cup final, October’s Border Cup final and Saturday’s 5-1 Beveridge Cup victory was a 1-0 South of Scotland Amateur Cup last-eight knockout for Duns in February at Galashiels Public Park.

Langlee won the sides’ first league fixture 2-1 at home back in August but lost 2-0 away in May.

The Beveridge Cup was of two trophies contested on Saturday, the other being the Walls Cup.

B division champions Biggar United beat Hawick Legion, third-place finishers in the same league, by 4-0 at Hawick’s 3G pitches to take home that cup for the first time and also rack up a winning double after securing their first league title since they ended up on top of the C division in 2013.

Following Saturday’s two cup finals, there were only two fixtures left to go of the current amateur football season in the Borders.

St Boswells, third in the C division, contested a play-off against Coldstream Amateurs, third from bottom of the B division, at Kelso’s Woodside Park on Tuesday night, winning 5-4 on penalties to secure promotion after ending extra time tied at 2-2.

Next season will be only St Boswells’ second in the B division, their previous stint having been the 2017-18 campaign.

Another play-off followed last night, May 31, pitting Hawick Legion against Langholm Legion, third from bottom of the A division, at Hawick’s Volunteer Park, with the former edging out their Dumfries and Galloway opposition by 4-3 after extra time.

Hawick had to come from behind three times for victory, taking the game to extra time with a 90th-minute equaliser and winning it right at the end of that additional period.

Their scorers were Hamish Murray, Euan Gray, Jason Inglis and Michael Moir.

That result sees seven-times A division champions Hawick return to the top flight for the first time since 2016, having dropped down to the C division for one season in the interim, and Langholm return to the B division after five years in the tier above.

Eyemouth United Amateurs’ James Paxton was runner-up in the golden boot standings for the season with 40 goals and his team claimed another two top-ten places, Stefan Kennedy being fifth with 31 and Connor Lough joint-sixth with 28.

Highfields United’s Niall Jones was third with 38, Chirnside United’s Robert Reid and Daniel Pattenden joint-fourth with 34 and seventh with 26 respectively, Earlston Rhymers’ Scott Rice also fourth with 34, Langlee’s Lewis Swaney joint-sixth with 28, Hawick Legion’s Gray and Hawick Colts’ Kevin Strathdee joint-ninth with 23 and Newtown’s Duncan Kemp and Highfields’ Lee Dodd joint tenth with 22.

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