\n The side welcomed neighbours Gala Rugby Club to the Greenyards for the annual showdown and emerged as winners by a score line of 27-24.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Boxing Day tradition was watched on by an impressive 2,500 people on Friday (December 26).\n<\/p>\n
\n Melrose took an early lead to go 5-0 up but were then pegged back by Gala pressure, with the visitors earning seven points to their name.\n<\/p>\n
\n The game ebbed and flowed and Melrose enjoyed a spell of dominance, which saw their tally rise to 17 over Gala’s seven.\n<\/p>\n
\n On the cusp of half-time, the visitors cut the deficit down to just three points as they saw their total increase to 14.\n<\/p>\n
\n The hosts, determined to see the illustrious trophy stay at the Greenyards for a third year, then catapulted their way up to 24 points.\n<\/p>\n
\n Gala refused to back down however and drew level with their rivals to set up an edge-biting finale.\n<\/p>\n
\n The final points of the day, however, went to Melrose and as the full-time whistle was blown, celebrations erupted at the Greenyards.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for Melrose Rugby Club said: “A great game against Gala on Boxing Day sees us retain the Waverley Cup for the third time in a row.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Thank you to everyone who came down to the Greenyards on Boxing Day. The official count for spectators was well over 2,500.\n<\/p>\n
\n “What a great advert for Borders Rugby and the game certainly lived up to the occasion.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for Gala Rugby Club said: “A massive away effort for our Maroons, but ultimately just short in the end.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The Waverley Cup remains in Melrose until next year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The side welcomed neighbours Gala Rugby Club to the Greenyards for the annual showdown and emerged as winners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-383612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}