Senior Scots qualify with ease,

play England in first tie

On another day of wind and rain, Scotland improved from 423 to 416 in their stroke-play qualifying rounds and made it through with ease to the championship flight match-play stages of the European senior women's amateur team golf championship at Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.
The Scots, for whom Alyth's Heather Anderson went from a non-counting score on Monday to a team-best 79, qualified as No 5 in the eight-team flight.
Conversely, Fiona De Vries (St Rule), who had been Scotland's lowest scorer in the first round, had the non-counting score of 87 today.
They will play England in their first-round tie.
Scotland's second-round scores were:
79 Heather Anderson (Alyth) 39-40.
82 Mary Smith (Tain) 41-41.
85 Moira Thomson (Gullane) 42-43, Lorna Bennett (Ladybank) 42-43, Fiona Hunter (Baberton) 41-44.
Non-counting score:
87 Fiona De Vries (St Rule) 41-46.

England's scores today were:
80 Sue Dye (Delamere Forest).
84 Chris Quinn (Hockley), Chris Stirling (Meon Valley).
85 Jo Ashmore (Barnham Broom).
87 Roz Adams (Addington Court), Janet Melville (Sherwood Forest).
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Host nation Ireland earned the top seed status ahead of title-holders Sweden.

CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT QUALIFIERS
808 IRELAND 410 398.
814 SWEDEN 412 402.
831 SPAIN 420 411.
835 ENGLAND 415 420
839 SCOTLAND 423 416
842 FRANCE 431 411, ITALY 424 418
849 GERMANY 432 417.

WEDNESDAY MATCHES
Ireland v Germany.
Sweden v Italy.
Spain v France.
England v Scotland.

OTHER TEAM TOTALS
859 BELGIUM 437 422.
874 SWITZERLAND 438 436
881 AUSTRIA 448 433
891 NETHERLANDS 445 446
901 DENMARK 458 443.
906 FINALDN 443 463
960 SLOVENIA 485 475