HARRIET BEASLEY THROUGH TO LAST 4 BUT CHARLEY HULL IS KO'd

By COLIN FARQUHARSON Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Stirling University student Harriet Beasley (Woburn GC), winner of the European universities' women's title in Slovenia last autumn, has produced another five-star performance in a foreign lad.
Harriet is through to the semi-finals of the Jones-Doherty Challenge Cup, the third event - and the last for the Stirling students - on Florida's January women's amateur Orange Blossom Tour.
But the defending champion, 15-year-old Charley Hull, also a member at Woburn, is OUT. She lost by 3 and 2 to 33-year-old American Meghan Stasi, who played in the 2008 Curtis Cup match over the Old Course St Andrews as Meghan Bolger.
Meghan must rank as one of the best 30-something players around. She's won the US women's mid-amateur title at least twice and reached the semi-finals of the British women's open amateur championship at Ganton, Yorkshire in 2010.
Mrs Stasi, her husband owns and runs a restaurant in Florida and caddies for her most of the time, stands between Harriet Beasley and a place in Saturday's final.
The English player won a titantic struggle at the 22nd against M Liu who was the second-round conqueror of Scottish girls champion Eilidh Briggs (Stirling Univ and Kilmacolm).
The other semi-final is between two Americans, the highly-rated and previous winner on the Orange Blossom Tour, Jaye Marie Green, and A Stewart.
Green won by 3 and 2 against Annie Dulman, the 18-year-old from Florida who was six under par in beating No 3 seed Kelsey MacDonald (Stirling Univ and Nairn Dunbar) in the previous round.
In the First Flight, Jordana Graham (Stirling Univ and Southerness) lost by 7 and 6 to T St Louis in the quarter-finals.
In the Second Flight, another Stirling student, Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride) went down by 3 and 2 in the semi-finals to the second of Ivan Lendl's daughters playing in this tournament - Isabelle.