FINDLAY AND KIRTON IMPROVE IN NCAA
DIV ONE TITLE EVENT IN VIRGINIA

North-east teenagers Jordan Findlay from Fraserburgh and Oldmeldrum’s Lewis Kirton both improved on their opening efforts in the second round of the NCAA Division 1 men’s college golf championship at the Golden Horseshore Golf Club, Williamsburg in Virginia.
Findlay, a second-year student at East Tennessee State University, followed up a 75 with a level-par 70 for a 36-hole tally of five-over-par 145 over the 6,803yd, par-70 course. He is in joint 91st place.
Jordan birdied the first, sixth and 17th but dropped shots at the second, fourth and 13th.
Kirton, a first-year student at Louisville University, Kentucky, improved on his first-day 82 with a 74 for 156 and is in 154th place. Lewis, starting at the 10th, had a double bogey 5 at the short second before birdieing the 18th. He had a bad start to his second nine, bogeying he first, third, fourth and fifth before he birdied the sixth.
Australian Bronson LaCassie (Minnesota) leads by two strokes with rounds of 67 and 65 for eight-under-par 132.
Thanks to that 70 by Findlay and also a 68 by Ulsterman Gareth Shaw and a 69 by Edinburgh-born Welsh Walker Cup player Rhys Davies, East Tennessee State have moved up into fourth place in the team event, only seven strokes behind leaders Stanford
LEADING INDIVIDUAL SCORES
Par 140 (2 x 70)
132 B LaCassie (Minnesota) 67 65.
134 J Curran (Vanderbilt) 70 64.
135 R Grube (Stanford) 64 71, D Johnson (Coastal Carolina) 67 68, Z Sucher (Birmingham Alabama) 68 67, C Tringale (Florida State) 67 68.
European students:
137 G Shaw (East Tennessee State) 69 68 (jt 8th).
138 R Davies (East Tennessee State) 69 69 (jt 12th).
141 C Ford (Tennessee) 69 72 (jt 29th).
142 P Martin (Oklahoma State) 70 72 (jt 44th).
143 S Power (East Tennessee State) 70 73 (jt 58th).
145 J Findlay (East Tennessee State) 75 70 (jt 91st).
147 T Sherreard (Georgia State) 75 72 (jt 115th).
148 C McNamara (East Tennessee State) 72 76 (jt 120th).
156 L Kirton (Louisville) 82 74 (154th).
LEADING TEAMS
553 Stanford. 554 Minnesota. 558 Coastal Carolina. 560 East Tennessee State. 562 Charlotte. 563 Georgia Tech, UCLA. 566 Oklahoma State.