Championships - Girls' International Matches 2008
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Scotland's Carly Booth
05.07.2008
England and Scotland meet today at Panmure for GHIM clash.
PHOTOS FROM PANMURE GOLF CLUBFINAL RESULT - DAY 1
England and Scotland, the winning teams on Day One of the Girls Home Internationals, will meet tomorrow in a match that will go a long way towards deciding if the Scots complete a hat-trick of Stroyan Cup wins.
Scotland beat Wales 5-4 after taking a 2-1 lead from the foursomes while England had to come from behind to beat the battling Irish 6-3 after losing the foursomes 2-1.
Scotland's "big guns," Carly Booth and Kelsey MacDonald, the only survivors from the championship-winning line-up of the past two years, won their singles to extend the host nation's lunch-time lead to 4-2 but in the end it took a gritty performance from Rebecca Wilson, who lives not all that far away from the course, to take Scotland through to victory by a single point.
Booth beat Natasha Gobey by 4 and 2 in the top singles tite but only after seeing the Welsh girl hit back from five down after nine to only one down after 14. Carly eventually wrapped up a 4 and 2 win by taking the 16th and 17th.
MacDonald lost only the 12th and 13th in beating Wales' Laura Watkins.
But Wales narrowed the gap with victories by their girls champion Amy Boulden (3 and 2 over Rachael McQueen), Katherine O'Connor (3 and 2 over Lesley Atkins) and by Kelly Miller's 2 and 1 win over Eilidh Briggs.
Rebecca Wilson saved the day for the Scots. Two down after five, she squared the match at the 12th and then edged ahead of Gemmay Bradbury only to be pegged back at the 15th. Wilson then finished just the stronger, winning the 16th and 18th (where she was bunkered) for a two-hole victory.
Lisa Maguire beat Hannah Barwood by 2 and 1 to boost Ireland's morning lead to 3-1 in a great match that was settled by the Irish girl birdiing the 16th to go one up and parring the 17th for victory.
Lisa's twin sister Leona lost out by one hole to Holly Clyburn in another fine match. Holly won the second and third for a two-hole lead and went three up at the 13th before her Irish opponent came back at her by winning the 14th, 16th and 17th. Holly had stemmed the tide by winning the 15th but she was glad to halve the last for a one-hole victory.
Kelly Tidy came back from two down to Patrice Delaney after eight holes to win the 17th and 18th for a thrilling one-hole success.
Alex Peters was a 3 and 2 winner over Sarah Cunningham in a match in which the first six holes were halved. Alex took the seventh, eighth and ninth to leap into a three-hole lead that was to prove decisive.
Rachel Connor was a 4 and 2 winner over Stephanie Meadow after being two up on the seventh tee and four up after 12.
Heidi Baek beat Emma O'Dreiscoll by one hole in the last match to finish. There was never more than a hole in it and the Irish girl squared the match at the 17th before Heidi won the 18th for victory.
SCOTLAND LEAD WALES, IRELAND
AHEAD OF ENGLAND AFTER FOURSOMES
Scotland, Stroyan Cup-winners for the past two years but with only two survivors from last year's line-up, made an encouraging start to the Girls Home International matches at Panmure Golf Club, Barry near Carnoustie.
They led Wales 2-1 at the end of the opening foursomes.
England, on paper, favourites to regain the title after their second place finish in the recent European girls' team championship at Murcar Links, were given a hard fight by Ireland who led in all three foursomes in the closing stages and also led 2-1 at lunchtime.
Scotland put the first point on the board when their lead-off pairing of Carly Booth and Kelsey MacDonald beat Chloe Williams and Karie Bradbury 5 and 4.
The Scots won the first two holes and were threee up after six.
Wales squared the contest overall when their girls' champion Amy Boulden and Katherine O'Connor won by 4 and 3 against Annabel Niven and Eilidh Briggs. The Welsh pair won the first two holes but were pulled back to all square at the 11th. Then Boulden and O'Connor pulled away again with wins at the 12th, 13th, 14th and a birdie 2 at the 15th.
Rebecca Wilson and Sammy Vass put the Scots in for lunch with a 2-1 lead by beating Kelly Miller and Gemma Bradbury 3 and 1 in the last tie to finish. All square after 10. Wo;spm amd Movem wpm tje 11th, the 16th with a birdie and the 17th.
The Maguire twins Lisa and Leona won the first foursomes for Ireland against England by one hole. The Maguires looked to have taken a commanding grip of the proceeding when they won the ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th to surge four up. But Hannah Barwood, the English women's champion, and Holly Clyburn were not finished yet. They won back the 13th, but lost the 14th, before exerting pressure on their 13-year-old opponents by winning the 15th, 16th and 17th to be one down on the 18th tee. The last hole was halved in nail-biting 5s.
Stephanie Meadow and Sarah Louise Winter put Ireland 2-0 when they beat Rachel Connor and Heidi Baeck by 3 and 1. The English pair won only two holes, the 10th and 14th but Meadow and Winter were only one up on the 15th tee. The Irish pair clinched victory with a strong finish, winning the 16th and 17th.
Kelly Tidy and Alexandra Peters kept alive England's hopes of salvaging a vital point from the morning foursomes by coming back from four down after seven holes to square the last match against Sarah Cunningham and Emma O'Driscoll at the 15th.
Tidy and Peters, who had not lost a hole since the seventh, kept up their momentum to win the 16th and go one up for the first time since the first hole. And they completed a great fightback by winning the 17th for a 2 and 1 victory.
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