Heriot's 24 - 20 Boroughmuir: Flanker's final minute try takes the honours

This was a strange game with almost all the points scored in a pulsating first half with the second 40 a no-score stalemate until Edinburgh flanker Struan Dewar popped up with the winning try at the death.

Heriot's were trailing by one point for the entire second half when skipper Graham Wilson popped a pass to Dewar on the right wing and the flanker had an uninterrupted run to the line. These five points were the only ones scored in the second half but they won this game for Heriot's who leap-frog Muir in the league.

Neither side managed to dominate the entire 80 minutes, with each team taking it in turns to up the pressure and rack up the points. Muir were first out of the blocks as Heriot's endured an opening 15 minutes where they couldn't put one foot in front of the other without the certainty of falling flat on their faces.

Heriot's lost the ball in the very first play of the game. Boroughmuir fly-half Harry Leonard helped himself to an early penalty and then kicked another straight-arm penalty to the sidelines five metres from the try line and the visitors' lock Greig Scott duly barged his way over.

Woken from their slumbers, Heriot's then played with a purpose and intensity that had been wholly absent earlier. Full-back Colin Goudie was the spark, at the centre of every attack and easily the most dangerous player on the pitch.

First up the full-back was the link between Mark Lee and CJ Osazuwa for the latter to open Heriot's' account with a try between the posts. Winger Max Nimmo grabbed the second after Heriot's kicked to the corner rather than the posts and it was Goudie's break from deep that set up field position for Wilson to send prop Alan Dymock racing under the sticks.

With a 19-8 lead, the home side were well in control but not for long as Muir hit back with two tries in the final three minutes of the first half.

The first was a glorious solo effort from Leonard who left everyone for dead and fully justified his starting place ahead of Ally Warnock. The second went to Callum MacIntosh after the hooker stepped inside the covering defence in the corner.

Almost inevitably this avalanche of first-half tries dried up in the second half as Muir defended a one-point advantage. Gregor Hunter made a try-saving stop on the runaway breakaway Joni Hare to keep the Heriot's line intact but most of the traffic was heading in the opposite direction.

Osazuwa broke out of defence with a deceptively leggy run but his offload went straight to a green shirt. Boroughmuir full-back Harris Jones then tried a delicate chip-kick that flew straight into the arms of Heriot's hooker Finlay Gillies whose little legs didn't have the tempo to take him all the way to the try line.

The clock was counting down with Muir still defending that precious one-point lead and Heriots becoming increasingly desperate in their attempts to find the elusive winner which eventually came with two minutes to play.

There was still time for Heriot's centre Greg Walker to earn a yellow card for some backchat but no time for any other scores.

Scorers: Heriots: Tries: Osazuwa, Nimmo, Dymock, Dewar. Cons: Wilson 2. Boroughmuir: Tries: Scott, Leonard, MacIntosh. Cons: Leonard. Pens: Leonard.

Heriots: Goudie; Bryce, Learmonth, Walker, Nimmo; Hunter, Wilson; Dymock, Burnett, Cameron, Osazuwa, Hill, Lee, Dewar, Syme. Replacements from: Gillies, Blacklock, Reid, Eccles, Ferguson.

Boroughmuir: Jones; Neil, Clapperton, Bishop, Cairns; Leonard, Reekie; Latta, MacIntosh, Gilding, McColl, Scott, O'Riordan, Rodger, Hare. Replacements from: Jones, Fraser, Rose, Johnson, Warnock.

Referee: A Ireland.