School sports: Dumfries and Galloway on top

FOOTBALL: Dumfries and Galloway squads emerged with the top points score from the first Lloyds TSB Scotland Primary Inter-Association Sevens event of the season at the Ravenscraig Indoor Arena in Motherwell.

Eight associations were involved – Aberdeen, Angus, Dumfries and Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth and Kinross – all with A and B teams, playing six games in all. The next round will be indoors at Toryglen in Glasgow in March with the final event outdoors in May at Meggetland in Edinburgh. “We get the county teams together as often as possible, but there is always a lot of travelling for the Stranraer lads,” said Gordon Cathro, head teacher at Troqueer Primary School and the Dumfries and Galloway Association’s football organiser. “All three senior clubs – Stranraer, Queen of the South and Annan – have boys on their books and are very supportive of the schools’ programme.”

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY PRIMARY SEVENS SQUAD: Liam McLarty (Calside, Dumfires), Craig Burns (Castle Kennedy), Arthur Harfield (Castle Douglas), Harry Mitchell (Glenluce), Jay Abraham, Jamie Thompson, Robbie McIlwraith (all Noblehill, Dumfries), Dom McMahom, Finley Corson (Heathhall, Dumfries), Harry McCreath (Garlieston), Gordon Forbes (Sheuchan, Stranraer), Russell Williamson (Locharbriggs, Dumfries), Robbie Halliday (Rephad, Stranraer), Jack Marshall (Minnigaff), Jake Service (Kirkcowan), Russell Currie (Newington, Annan), Ross Irvine (Laurieknowe, Dumfries), Taylor Kerr (Kelloholm Primary, Kirkconnel), Lewis Bell (Sanquhar).