The trip to Hartreemill to face a Biggar side who had shipped over 100 points in October and are languishing at the bottom of the RBS National League was either going to provide easy pickings or be a banana skin for Dundee High.
In the end it proved a bit of both, the fruity part coming in the first half when they made things difficult for themselves with a lead of 10-6 at the break before employing cruise control later in the second half as they pulled away to a bonus point win.
Strong winds sweeping across the field kept the scoreline down as High kickers were only able to kick two conversions of the seven tries they scored, a season’s best, but the overall performance satisfied head coach Colin Robertson.
“We got the away win we have been looking for,” he said. “Seven tries to nil shows how we dominated the game.”
High are in fifth place in the RBS National League but curiously have to play all four of the teams above them in the division at Mayfield, where they are a perfect five-wins-from-five games this season.
“We’re now in the position we want to be, just a few points behind the promotion positions and the players are desperate to play the teams that are above us at Mayfield,” added Robertson, who is also pleased with the performances of the youngsters being brought into the team.
“We finished the game with two 18-year-olds and a 17-year-old on the pitch, which shows our development programme is producing value and going in the right direction,” he added.
The prolific boot of Craig Parker opened the scoring for Biggar with a seventh minute penalty, before wing Matt O’Sullivan and prop Steven Longwell both crossed for tries in the second quarter for the visitors.
However, Parker’s second penalty made for a pretty tight margin at half-time. Conditions worsened and as the wind got up and the lashing rain became horizontal.
High coped best with the elements and O’Sullivan crossed for his second try, Bryce Hosie converting. When scrum-half Josh Rutnagar bounced through for the bonus clinching score, it was all over for Biggar.
Lock Chris Cumming and Mike Brown added tries five and six as High survived what could have been a tricky one against a side who had shown they could be a handful at home with their only win in October against Hillhead Jordanhill.
Saturday sees Dundee head off to Hughenden to face Hillhead Jordanhill who they just managed to beat at Mayfield by 15-13 in August.
They will take the Glasgow outfit lightly at their peril since, had it not been for an almighty defensive foul-up by Hills in injury-time at Hughenden last Saturday, Boroughmuir would have suffered their first defeat of the season.