Saturday 15 September 2018

COUNTY FINALS AT KILMACOLM - DAY 2 - RENFREWSHIRE WIN AND MIDLOTHIAN STAGE A COMEBACK AGAINST ABERDEENSHIRE

Renfrewshire's Donna Jackson and Liz Stewart

SOME PHOTOS FROM TODAY

Renfrewshire are odds-on favourites to retain the Scottish Women's County Championship at Kilmacolm after beating Dumfries-shire 6.5-2.5 today (Saturday) while their main rivals, Aberdeenshire, leading by 2pt after the foursomes, nosedived in the singles and lost 5.5-3.5 to Midlothian. 

To win the title Aberdeenshire would need to win their final match on Sunday, against Renfrewshire, by a big-enough margin to cancel out the title-holder's commanding "goal difference" of 12-6 compared with Aberdeen's 9.5-8.5 

Renfrewshire's stalwarts Donna Jackson and Liz Stewart  won their foursomes match comfortably in the morning and both picked up a point each in the afternoon. County Champion Eilidh Briggs won all her matches today with Jennifer Rankine picking up a point and a half.

Aberdeenshire's collapse in the singles - which they lost 5-1 - started with a shock 6 and 5 defeat for Curtis Cup player Shannon McWilliam from Aboyne at the hands of Karen Ferguson-Snedden who was three up after 10 holes.


RENFREWSHIRE 6.5 DUMFRIESSHIRE 2.5 

Morning Foursomes : Renfrewshire 3 Dumfriesshire 0
Eilidh Briggs and Jennifer Rankine bt Coisande Lee and Jordan Graham 2 holes
Megan Briggs and Carol Whyte bt Mirren Fraser and Diane MacDonald 1 Hole
Donna Jackson and Liz Stewart bt Katie Malcolm and Fiona Allison 6&4

Afernoon Singles:Renfrewshire 3.5 Dumfriesshire 2.5
Megan Briggs lost to Corisande Lee 2&1
Eilidh Briggs bt Jordana Graham 4&3
Jennifer Rankine halved wih Mirren Fraser
Alyson McGinnigle lost to  Katie McCracken 1Hole
Liz Stewart bt Fiona Allison 2&1
Donna Jackson bt Katie Malcom 2&1


MIDLOTHIAN 5.5 ABERDEENSHIRE 3.5

Morning Foursomes: Midlothian 0.5 
Aberdeenshire 2.5
Kate McIntosh and Wendy Nicholson lost to Shannon McWilliam and Jasmine Mackintosh 7&5
Alison McBride and Carys Irvine lost Kimberly Beveriddge and Samantha Leslie 4&3
Louise Fraser and Rachael Livingstone halved with Sheena Wood and Carol Wilson 

Afernoon Singles: Midlothian 5 Aberdeenshire 1
Karen Ferguson - Sneddon bt Shannon McWilliam 6&5
Wendy Nicholson bt Vikki Thom 4&3
Alison McBride halved with Jasmine Mackintosh
Caroline Steedman bt Sammy Leslie 2&1
Carys Irvine bt Sheena Wood 3&2
Rachael Livingstone halved with Kimberley Beveridge

Renfrewshire 2pts (12 games for 6 against)
Aberdeenshire 1 pt (9.5 games for 8.5 against)
Midlothian 1pt (9 games for 9 against)
Dumfriesshire 0 pts (5.5 games for 12.5 against)

FINAL MATCHES 
Midlothian v Dumfries-shire 
Renfrewshire v Aberdeenshire