JACQUES LEGLISE TROPHY

GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND BOYS THRASHED
ON FIRST DAY IN CZECH REPUBLIC

The Great Britain & Ireland boys' team suffered an unexpectedly heavy defeat on the first day of the two-day Jacques Leglise Trophy match against admittedly a very strong Continent of Europe team in the Czech Republic oday.
Spearheaded by Open Silver medal winner Marius Thorp, who would probably have won the British boys' title had he played at Balgownie recently, romped into an 11-1 lead.
After losing the foursomes 4-0, GB&I lost seven of the eight singles matches with Welshman Adam Runcie picking up the only point of the day with a 2 and 1 win over Lluis Garcia Del Moral.
North-east Aberdeen Lewis Kirton and James Byrne suffered a rare defeat in their foursomes tie, going down 2 and 1 to Victor Dubuisson and Andrea Pavan.
In the singles, Kirton, who flew over from the United States where he has enrolled at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, went down 5 and 4 to Jesper Kennegard with Byrne losing 2 and 1 to Anders Kristiansen.
JACQUES LEGLISE TROPHY
FIRST-DAY SCORELINE
GB&I 1 Continent of Europe 11
Foursomes (GB&I names first)
S Hutsby, L Goddard lost to T Sluiter, L Garcia Del Moral 2&1.
R Enoch, A Runcie lost to J Kennegard, B Akesson 1 hole.
P Cutler, N Kearney lost to M Thorp, A Kristiansen 3&1.
J Byrne, L Kirton lost to V Dubuisson, A Pavan 2&1;
Singles
Goddard lost to P Figueiredo 1 hole.
Enoch lost to Sluiter 1 hole.
Cutler lost to Akesson 4&2.
Kirton lost to Kennegard 5&4.
Runcie bt Garcia Del Moral 2&1.
Hutsby lost to Dubuisson 4&2.
Byrne lost to Kristiansen 2&1.
Kearney lost to Thorp 1 hole
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