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    The Hawick Paper

    CATEGORY: Sport

    Anderson storms to ninth title win

    Friday, February 13th, 2026

    The Teviotdale Harriers’ annual cross-country championships saw some excellent performances in testing conditions around Wilton Lodge Park and the surrounding countryside on Saturday. Rory Anderson coasted to a 300-yard victory in the senior men’s championship and, with it, his ninth title over a demanding 6.78-mile course....

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    Hawick back-rower Jae Linton has been ruled out of the Scotland Club XV international clash with Ireland on February 13. Talismanic Linton, who was named The Offside Line rugby website’s top-flight player of the season in 2023/24, has been out for more than a year now with a serious ACL knee injury, but is close...

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    Scotland Rugby League’s operations director Barry McGuffog says it is “fantastic” that several international fixtures will be played at Mansfield Park this year. After a deal was struck between the sport’s governing body and Hawick RFC, the famous ground will host Scotland rugby league fixtures at junior level along with senior internationals for both men...

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    Talented Teri Jack Oliver says the support he has had from the Hawick community since he joined Glasgow Warriors last year and then made his competitive debut for them recently has been “amazing”. The 22-year-old former Munster academy scrum-half and ex-Ireland Under-20 cap is the son of the late Greig Oliver who represented the Greens...

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    Teri trio turn out for South

    Friday, January 30th, 2026

    There was excellent Hawick representation with the South under-17s on Sunday at the Oriam in Edinburgh. In a festival that was part of the Inter-District Youth Pathway Programme, South played against Glasgow, Caledonia and Edinburgh....

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    Teri jockey Jamie Hamilton landed a winning double at Sedgefield on Sunday. He rode Rosie Baloo to win the mares’ novice hurdle race, before posting a 7-1 win on Slaney Opera in the handicap chase....

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    Premiership side next in Sonkur’s sights

    Friday, January 23rd, 2026

    Hawick footballer Ayrton Sonkur is “delighted” to have helped Spartans through to the last 16 of the Scottish Gas Scottish Cup....

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    Young’s Langheugh joy

    Friday, January 16th, 2026

    Mark Young stormed to victory in Teviotdale Harriers’ Langheugh Trophy on Saturday, finishing a convincing two minutes 18 seconds ahead of 2022 winner David Beattie. The six-mile race, run over frozen and slippery terrain, tested runners’ stamina across some of Hawick’s most demanding countryside....

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    Hawick High School’s Kai Telfer says that winning rugby silverware with the Melrose Wasps Under-16 squad at Murrayfield recently was a “brilliant experience”....

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    Mikey Swailes says he has “really enjoyed the step up” to senior rugby this season with Hawick. The 18-year-old back-row forward is one of a number of youngsters to make the transition from Hawick Youth Rugby to Arnold Clark Premiership action, and he has certainly not looked out of place....

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    Teri Lisa Thomson has begun a spell on the sidelines after having surgery on an achilles injury. The 28-year-old Scotland centre has not featured for her club side Trailfinders Rugby in the English PWR top flight yet this season and late last week she announced that she is injured....

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    Sean Linton savoured his victory in the Teviotdale Harriers’ Will Clark Memorial Trophy race on Saturday, having had to settle for runner-up spot behind his brother, Robbie, in last month’s club event. Alanna Hart took the John Elliott Trophy, relishing the testing conditions to pip holder Kirsty Hughes to the  ladies’ title on an action-packed...

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    Forrest hits the mark twice in same weekend

    Friday, November 28th, 2025

    Hawick’s world champion bowler, Julie Forrest, enjoyed three of the most memorable days in her illustrious career at the weekend....

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    Darcy Graham’s loved ones have paid tribute to the Teri rugby star after he reached the 50-cap milestone for Scotland on Sunday with his mother Leah saying that they are “extremely proud”....

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    A man-of-the-match performance by Hawick’s Connor Sutherland inspired the South to an Inter-District Championship win over Edinburgh at Mansfield Park last Friday night. A good crowd, swelled by many Teries, watched Greens’ No.8 Sutherland and his club team-mates Andrew Mitchell and Fraser Renwick turning out for the famous representative team alongside players from Selkirk, Melrose...

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    In-form jockey Jason Hart, who was crowned Cock of the North as the region’s top rider, ended the season with his 1,000th winner at Doncaster on Saturday. It was a poignant milestone, having lost his grandad who played such an influential part in his career, a few days earlier....

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