By Colin Farquharson
Rachel Foster (Prestwick St Nicholas) and Loretto's Eilidh Henderson kept the home flag flying in the fact of very strong Continental opposition to finish joint second and fifth respectively in the Loretto Scottish Under-16 girls open championship at Murrayfield.
Portugal's Filipa Capello (77-72) was the winner with a total of 149, one shot ahead of compatriot Leonor Medeiros (79-71) and Rachel Foster (77-73).
Eilidh Henderson had scores of 75 and 77 for 152.
Aboyne's Carmen Griffiths was the third best Scot in ninth place on 156 (80-76).
LEADING TOTALS
par 146 (2x73) SSS 72 CSS 73 72
149 F Capello (Por) 77 2
150 L Medeiros (Por) 79 71, R Foster (Prestwick St Nicholas) 77 73
151 G M Z Ricciardelli (Ita) 78 73
157 E Henderson (Loretto) 75 77.
OTHER SCOTS' TOTALS
156 C Griffiths (Aboyne) 80 76 (9th)
159 P Wilson (Burntisland) 79 80, E Hynd (Elmwood) 77 82 (T11)
160 M Docherty (Bishopbriggs) 80 80 (13th).
163 E Caton (St Regulus) 88 75 (T17)
169 O O'Leary (Hirsel) 87 82 (21st)
170 A Nisbet (Gullane) 82 88 (22nd)
171 A Gorka (Royal Musselburgh) 83 88 (T23)
173 L Morrison (Craigmillar Park) 90 83 (T25)
179 R Mathieson (Hazlehead) 90 89, C Wilson (St Regulus) 90 83 (T27).
English girl wins U14s' title by eight strokes
English players filled the leading places at the Loretto Scottish Under-14 girls open championship at Murrayfield, won by eight strokes by Kettering's Ashleigh Critchley with rounds of 68 and 73 for 141.
Leading Scot was Grace Crawford (Gullane) in joint seventh place on 154 with a pair of 77s.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 146 (2x73( SSS 72 CSS 73 72
141 A Critchley (Kettering) 68 73
149 R Gourley (Arcot Hall) 78 71
150 H Lockley (Isle of Wedmore) 79 71, C Noja (Sandy Lodge) 74 76.
SCOTS' TOTALS
154 G Crawford (Gullane) 77 77 (T7)
163 A Brannock (Castle Douglas) 84 79 (T16)
167 K Graham (Hamilton) 86 81 (T23)
168 R Fowlie (Edzell) 87 81, S Elliott (Nairn) 87 81 (T26)
170 S Murphy (Clydebank and Dist) 87 83 (T31)
171 R Erskine (Kilmacolm) 84 87 (T34)
