Hayley and Lauren in step at top

of English Under-15 leaderboard

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Dorset’s Hayley Davis and Warwickshire’s Lauren Taylor kept their grip on the top of the leaderboard at the halfway stage of the English Under-15 girls’ championship at Ramside, Durham.
Both girls are one-under par for the tournament and have returned identical scores of 73 and 76.
In the second round Hayley, 15, who plays at Ferndown, reached the turn at one under par but dropped three shots on the inward half.
Lauren, 13, (Rugby) had an up-and-down front nine with three birdies, three bogeys and three pars. She dropped two shots early on the second half but then parred her way home.
Hayley and Lauren are three shots clear of Hannah McLoughlin from Sutton Coldfield Ladies. Her club colleague, Elizabeth Mallett, is a further shot back.
The field was cut to 36 players and ties after the second round with 37 making it through to tomorrow’s final 36 holes.
QUALIFYING SCORES
Par 150 (2 x 75)
149 Hayley Davis (Ferndown) 73 76; Lauren Taylor (Rugby) 73 76
152 Hannah McLoughlin (Sutton Coldfield Ladies) 76 76
153 Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies) 76 77
154 Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham & St. Annes) 79 75; Sophie Godley (Lindrick) 75 79
155 Elizabeth Stebbings (Wilpshire) 77 78
157 Brogan Townend (Pleasington) 77 80; Hannah Turland (Tidworth Garrison) 76 81; Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough) 75 82
158 Shelby Smart (Knowle) 81 77; Jamie Leigh Voss (Kirby Muxloe) 78 80
159 Charlotte Thomas (Singapore Island) 74 85
160 Ashley Cramond (The Warwickshire) 82 78; Megan Perry (Kidderminster) 75 85; Emily Chan (South Herts) 80 80
161 Hannah Edmunds (Woodhall Spa) 80 81
161 Sophie Myles (Ilkley) 79 83
163 Miranda Brain (Gog Magog) 84 79; Nicola Foster (Pinner Hill) 86 77
164 Amy Marper (Hillsborough) 81 83; Michaela Chivers (Farrington) 83 81; Elizabeth Richards (Kidderminster) 82 82; Lucy Evans (Lilleshall Hall) 80 84
165 Amy Rae (Lakeside Lodge) 75 90; Georgia Gilling (Rochford Hundred) 85 80 18; Jessica Gregory (Sittingbourne & Milton Regis) 85 80; Charlotte Griffith (Walton Heath) 82 83; Sophie Daws (Littlestone) 81 84
166 Anna Denvir (Chislehurst) 85 81; Sarah Howe (Ipswich) 86 80
167 Emma Newlove (Notts Ladies) 83 84
168 Bethany Garton (Royal Lytham & St. Annes) 83 85; Abigail Laker (Burford) 82 86; Aimee Paterson (North Hants) 87 81
169 Poppy Lockwood (Cleveland) 88 81; Florence King (Kirby Muxloe) 85 84

Charley Hull four ahead in Under-13s
Northamptonshire’s Charley Hull holds a four-shot lead with one round to play in the English Under-13 girls’ championship at Ramside, Durham.
The 12-year-old from Kettering is level par after 36 holes. She scored a one-under 73 in the second round to overtake Cheshire’s Bronte Law at the top of the leaderboard. Charley had only one disappointing hole on her card: a double bogey 6 on the eighth.
For the rest, she had three birdies and 14 pars – and played the back nine in one-under. The four-handicapper is the Northamptonshire girls’ champion and plays in the county team. She’s been a prominent junior golfer since she was nine and won a national competition for club golfers organised by the LGU.
The field was cut after 36 holes to the leading 18 players and ties who will contest tomorrow’s final round. Altogether, 21 players qualified.
QUALIFIERS
Par 148 (2 x 74)
148 Charley Hull (Kettering)75 73.
152 Bronte Law (Bramhall) 74 78.
154 Georgia Hall (Ferndown) 78 76.
158 Emma-Jane Harris (Peel Ladies) 81 77.
161 Amber Ratcliffe (Royal Cromer) 84 77.
162 Kyra Horlock (Hamptworth) 82 80.
164 Olivia Winning (Rotherham) 81 83.
166 Bethan Popel (Long Ashton) 87 79.
168 Lianna Bailey (Rushcliffe) 87 81.
171 Georgina Blackman (Chelmsford) 91 80.
172 Alice Plumb (Yeovil) 87 85.
173 Rebecca Horner (Woodham) 86 87.
175 Amelia Covell (Huddersfield) 96 79, Alice Hewson (Berkhamsted) 89 86.
176 Charlotte Taylor (Rugby) 89 87, India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) 88 88.
177 Laura Barrow (Brokenhurst Manor) 91 86.
178 Maisy Turner (Peterborough Milton) 84 94, Amelia Taylor (St Annes Old Links) 90 88, Ashleigh Greenham (West Essex) 86 92, Rosie Mist (Hayling) 84 94.