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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Top seed Mary Smith plays
title- holder Lorna Bennett
in seniors' semi-final

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Tain's Mary Smith is on course for a double whammy in the Scottish senior women's amateur championships at Deeside Golf Club.
Having won the stroke-play title on her debut appearance earlier in the week, Mary, as No 1 seed, is through to the semi-finals of the match-play championship for the over-50s.
She beat Ann Smart (Banchory) 2 and 1 and former Curtis Cup player Suzanne Cadden (Cardross) 3 and 1 to reach the last four at the first attempt.
In Friday morning's first semi-final, Mary will play the defending champion Lorna Bennett (Ladybank).
Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay), pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency, still a regular member of the Aberdeenshire women's county team, is also making her debut in the seniors' championship week and she will play St Andrews hotelier Fiona De Vries (St Rule) in the other semi-final.
Jill, Aberdeenshire champion in 1995, knocked out the No 2 seed, Moira Thomson (North Berwick), a former Scottish girls champion, by 2 and 1 in the quarter-finals.
De Vries won the seniors' stroke-play title in 2006 and is a formidable competitor.
Today's match-play results:
First round

M Smith (Tain) bt A Smart (Banchory) 2 and 1.
S Cadden (Cardross) bt A Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) 1 hole.
L Bennett (Ladybank) bt N Fenton (Merchants of Edinburgh) 3 and 2.
A Telfer (Milngavie) bt M Tough (Falkirk) 2 and 1.
F De Vries (St Rule) bt P Williamson (Baberton) 5 and 4.
F Hunter (Baberton) bt H Anderson (Downfield) 6 and 5.
J Harrison (Cruden Bay) bt K Sutherland (Royal Montrose) 4 and 3.
M Thomson (North Berwick) bt P Wilson (Murcar Links) 4 and 2.
Quarter-finals
Smith bt Cadden 3 and 1.
Bennett bt Telfer 5 and 4.
De Vries bt Hunter 2 and 1.
Harrison bt Thomson 2 and 1.

Semi-finals at 8.50am, 9am on Friday.
Final at 1.40pm on Friday.

SECOND FLIGHT (first round losers)
First round

Glennie bt Smart 2 holes.
Fenton bt Tough 3 and 2.
Anderson bt Williamson 5 and 4.
Sutherland bt Wilson 5 and 4.

Semi-finals at 8.30 and 8.40am Friday.
Final at 1.30pm Friday.

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