Shimlas Bask in the Heat the Melrose Sevens the Melrose Sevens Local Sides Put in the Shade As South African Visitors Make Up for Faltering Last Year. Alasdair Reid Reports

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INSPIRATION on the pitch and no shortage of perspiration around the ground either. The Melrose Sevens tournament is the closest thing the Borders has to a rite of spring, but Melrose's achingly picture-perfect ground was not so much basking as baking beneath a fierce sun throughout yesterday afternoon.

Just the conditions, you might say, for the Shimlas, those veldt- hardened boys of South Africa's Orange Free State University.

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Shimlas Bask in the Heat the Melrose Sevens the Melrose Sevens Local Sides Put in the Shade As South African Visitors Make Up for Faltering Last Year. Alasdair Reid Reports

The Shimlas had looked to have last year's event in the bag until they ran out of steam in the latter part of the tournament and were bundled out at the semi-final stage but there was to be no repeat of that error yesterday as they conserved their energies superbly and took the Melrose title ...

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