Leitch the toast of Preston Lodge in thriller with rivals

GREG LEITCH was the hero as Preston Lodge fought back from 19-6 down to defeat local rivals North Berwick in a National Three thriller on Saturday.

The visitors went ahead 7-0 at the Pennypit thanks to a converted try by Peter Littlefair and in a tight first 40 minutes the only other scoring came from a Leitch penalty for the home side.

After the break it was soon 7-6 following another Leitch kick, but North Berwick then turned on the style to run in two tries through Grant Craig and Adam McNair to go 19-6 up.

Cue a PL fightback, Stuart McLean and Andrew Archer scoring unconverted tries to leave them just a point behind going into the last few minutes. And with the last kick of the game Leitch put over a penalty to secure the 21-19 win and leave PL fifth and North Berwick fourth.

Ross High are still bottom after a 23-18 home loss to Hawick Linden, while Forrester went down 20-18 to Cambuslang.

• In National One Lasswade lost their first game of the campaign, going down 14-12 away to Langholm.

Murrayfield Wanderers are now second bottom after a 40-26 loss at Greenock Wanderers, that win leaving the latter team just a point below Lasswade at the summit.

Edinburgh University are struggling near the foot after going down 18-15 to RHC Cougars at Peffermill, while Linlithgow's new look side could not build on last week's win as they were defeated by Livingston 27-13.