UHI SHOCK HERIOT WATT IN STUDENTS TITLE QUARTER-FINALS

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
The "new kids on the block" - University of Highlands and Islands scored an upset win over Heriot Watt in the quarter-finals of the Scottish universities men's team golf championship over the Moray Old Course, Lossiemouth today.
The Highlanders won by 8 1/2-6 1/2, sharing the foursomes 2 1/2-2 1/2 and then taking a winning 6-4 lead in the singles.
In Thursday's semi-finals, UHI will play Aberdeen University who squeezed past Edinburgh University 8-7. The North-east squad got the decisive 1pt lead by taking the foursomes 3-2 and then sharing the singles 5-5.
St Andrews University annihilated Abertay Dundee 14-1 and now play Stirling University who had a bye into the last four.
Stiirling won the Scottish Universities women's team championship, contested by only two teams due to Easter being so late this year that most universities are still in term time and their students could not afford to be absent at Lossiemouth for the whole week.
Stirling won the title by beating St Andrews 2 1/2-1 1/2. Rebecca Wilson and Harriet Beasley won for Stirling and Jordana Graham got the half-point. Welsh international Gemma Bradbury gained St Andrews only win by beating Eilidh Mackay 2 and 1.

Today's results:

MEN'S QUARTER-FINALS

UHI 8 1/2, HERIOT WATT 6 1/2
UHI names first

FOURSOMES (2 1/2-2 1/2)
C Greenhill and R Wood w.o. Heriot Watt scr.
M McDonagh and J Mackinnon lost to S Smith and B Herriot 8 and 7.
L Meddle and S Whyte halved with M Pennycott and R DiMurro.
R Black and A Shedden bt R Whitson and C Graham 1 hole.
 J Fraser and N Marc lost to C Graham and V Varadahajan 1 hole.

SINGLES (6-4)
G Hay lost to Varadahajan 8 and 7.
Mackinnon bt D Dodd 4 and 3.
Shedden bt E Patterson 2 and 1.
Whyte lost to DiMurro 6 and 5.
R Black bt Herriot 4 and 2.
Marc bt Whitson 2 and 1.
Fraser bt Graham 1 hole.
Meddle lost to Pennycott 4 and 3.
Wood lost to Smith 8 and 7.
Greenhill w.o. Heriot Watt scr.

ABERDEEN 8, EDINBURGH 7

FOURSOMES (3-2)
J Wybar and C Stewart bt C Telfer and R Gallon 2 and 1.
D Ibbotson and G Bisset lost to J White and J Hendry 4 and 3.
M Scullion and R Crummey lost to R Forgie and D McCall 3 and 2.
J Duff and J Drummond bt J Mabutt and C Swan 3 and 2.
K Shanks and N McAndrew bt M McBride and J Arundell 3 and 2.

SINGLES (5-5)
D Maxwell lost to Arundell 3 and 2.
Creummey lost to Gallon 4 and 3.
Bisset bt White 4 and 3.
Ibbotson lost to Hendry 6 and 5.
Stewart lost to Telfer 1 hole.
Wybar bt Mabutt 2 and 1.
Drummond bt McCall 5 and 4.
Duff bt Swan 4 and 3.
K Shanks lost to Forgie 3 and 2.
McAndrew bt McBride 3 and 2.

ST ANDREWS 14, ABERTAY DUNDEE 1

FOURSOMES (5-0)
F Edmunds and D Doherty bt A Reid and R Turkington 5 and 4.
M Wheeler and P Dirkx bt R Grant and J McLean 3 and 2.
R Shannon and J Marchbank bt J Clarke and S Thompson 2 and 1.
E Brown and B Pelling bt A Brough and D Daly 3 and 2.
J Corke and S Fotheringhame bt A Donze and G Harper 2 and 1.

SINGLES (9-1)
Doherty bt Reid 5 and 4.
Wheeler bt Turkington 6 and 4.
Corke bt Grant 8 and 6.
Shannon bt McLean 5 and 4.
Marchbank lost to Clarke 1 hole.
Dirkx bt Thompson 4 and 3.
Edmunds bt Daly 5 and 4.
Pelling w.o. Harper scr.
Brown bt Brough 5 and 4.
C Sedgwick bt Donze 9 and 7.

BYE - STIRLING

Thursday's semi-finals:

UHI v Aberdeen, St Andrews v Stirling.

WOMEN'S FINAL

STIRLING 2 1/2, ST ANDREWS 1 1/2
E Mackay lost to G Bradbury 2 and 1.
R Wilson bt M Norblad 6 and 5.
H Beasley bt M Jones 4 and 3.
J Graham halved with A Smith.