Young’s dream Biggar debut
Biggar cemented third place in National League One at the weekend thanks in part to young debutant Thomas Young who scored a crucial try in a 26-25 win over Ayr.
For the second game in a row Biggar scored four tries and this was achieved against a stuffy Ayr XV which, like Biggar, was a little under strength due to Super 6 promotions, holidays and injury.
It was also achieved despite the fact that Biggar played 10 minutes with just 13 men after two were shown yellow cards for a fracas in the second half.
With third place secure, if Biggar can defeat Highland this Saturday and Gala were to lose against Dundee they could sneak a second place finish.
In what was effectively a league decider on Saturday, Heriots defeated Gala and so are odds on favourites to gain promotion.
On Saturday, Biggar trailed 12-13 at half-time but there was a change in the Biggar XV for the second half, with Ewan Mitchell giving way to debutant Thomas Young.
And he had the start of all starts as within 10 minutes of being on, he latched onto a pass to score Biggar’s third try. The position for this was created by Robbie Orr who made the break before feeding Andrew Orr. His angled run looked as though it might take him to the line but he was tackled some 10 metres out. Fortunately the Biggar support was swift, and a neat inside pass from Andy Jardine set Young free for a five metre gallop to the line, his try greeted by surely the biggest cheer of the day (maybe season!).
Bogle added the conversion for 19-13.
Craig Bachurewski got the next try and Bogle added the conversion for 26-13.
At this point it looked as though Biggar might be able to control things but a stramash in midfield saw referee Grant Stephen resort to his pocket, that man Young and Frame being shown yellow and spending the next 10 minutes in the sin-bin.
While Ayr clawed back the deficit to within one, Biggar held out for