Scott Hastings dash to aid stricken hockey player

RELIEVED hockey player Stephen Glass has praised quick-thinking former British and Irish Lion Scott Hastings and two rugby doctors after a horror clash.

The 29-year-old sports lecturer was sent flying as he attempted to score a fourth goal for CALA Edinburgh in their 14-1 victory in a Division Two league match against St Andrews University at Meggetland, Edinburgh, on Saturday.

Hastings was watching the game from the stands as his son Corey plays for CALA. And with Glass, who teaches at Strathallan School, Perthshire, lying flat out on the pitch, the TV rugby pundit rushed for medical help from doctors in attendance on a neighbouring pitch as Boroughmuir faced Edinburgh rivals Heriot's in rugby's Premier A.

Glass, was checked over and lifted from the pitch on a spinal board before being taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. There he spent five hours having a thorough check-over which discovered heavy bruising and whiplash injuries.

Glass said: "I had scored three goals in eight minutes in the first-half and was trying to score another when I was tackled by their goalkeeper. I don't remember much after that but what I do know now is that Scott Hastings ran for medical assistance and the doctors of the Boroughmuir and Heriot's teams came to help.

"Luckily, it looks as if I have just got bruising but I can't thank Scott and the doctors enough for their help and I consider myself lucky that the injury is not worse."