REBECCA GIBBS AND JACK MCDONALD LEAD INTO LAST ROUND AT CRAIL

REPORT FROM DR ROB MACPHERSON
On a beautiful spring day at Crail Golfing Society's Craighead course, the best of the UK's student golfers bit back at the course that had proved so testing for the first round on Tuesday in the BUCS Student Tour Championship Finals.
The second and third rounds were played today and the scores of the day came  in the Ladies Championship from Rebecca Gibbs (Kingston University), who was four under par for the day with rounds of 70 (-4) and 74 (level). 
Rebecca's rounds included 13 birdies - the results of some excellent chipping and putting. 
Overnight leaders, Gabrielle MacDonald (St Andrews) and Katie Bradbury (Exeter) remain in contention, four and five shots back respectively. 
In the Men's Championship, overnight leader Jack McDonald (Stirling) added two further rounds of one-over 73 to his first round score for three-over-par tally of 219, increasing his lead by one stroke. 
Joint second are Laurie Potter (Exeter) and Ryan McKinstry (Queen's, Belfast), six shots back on 225.
Round of the day in the Men's Championship was a course-record equalling four-under-par 68 by last year's Scottish U18 boys' match-play champion from Peebles, Craig Howie (Stirling).That hoisted him up to joint fifth place on 227 - eight shots behind leader McDonald.
The competition concludes with 18 holes on Thursday.

THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
MEN
Par 216 (3x72)
219 Jack McDonald (Stirling) 73 73 73.
225 Laurie Potter (Exeter) 79 74 72.
226 Ryan McKinstry (Queen's, Belfast) 79 74 72, Oliver Roberts
(Stirling) 79 75 72.
227 Craig Howie (Stirling) 83 76 68, Mathias Eggenberger
(Stirling) 80 78 69, Cormac Sharvin (Stirling) 82 72 73, Michael
Howard (Stirling) 78 75 74, Patrick Spraggs (Stirling) 78 72 77.
228 Nick Wildman (Exeter) 79 73 76.
229 Alexander Culverwell (Stirling) 81 76 72.  
230 Patrick Mullins (Newport) 78 76 76.
231 Andrew Wilson (Northumbria) 83 77 77, Matt Wheeler (St
Andrews) 80 77 74, Joe Timlin (Queen's, Belfast) 84 73 74, Dean
Newbold (Newport) 79 76 76.
233 Louis Tomlinson (Plymouth) 82 74 77.
235 Jack Lampkin (Northumbria) 86 76 76, Josh Bassit
(Northumbria) 86 73 76.
236 John Robinson (Ulster) 84 79 73, Craig Chalmers
(Strathclyde) 86 74 76.
237 Danny Vallis (Exeter) 84 75 78.
238 Robert Harrhy (Bournemouth) 90    75 73, Jack Irwin (Exeter)
84 77 77, Thomas Jessamine (Birmingham) 80 80 78.
239 Kit Holmes (Stirling) 84 78 77.
240 Harry Chapple (Birmingham) 84 83 73, Angus Carrick
(Stirling) 84 81 75, Ben Leigh (Exeter) 82 81 77.
241 Tiarnan McLarnon (Ulster) 82 81 78.
243 Michael Bacigalupo (guest) 89 79 75, Ryan Gribben (Ulster)
87 79 77, Alex Baker (Northumbria) 84 78 81.
244 Chris Fleming (Exeter) 87 78 79.
245 Oliver Mottram (Newport) 90 75 80.
248 Freddie Edmunds (St Andrews) 93 81 74, Fraser Johnston
(guest) 84 83 81.
249 Steven Burn (Northumbria) 91 81 77, Chris Forrest (York) 87
85 77.
250 Tai Yasuda (Loughborough) 88 85 77, Callum McNeill (UHI)
87 79 84.
253 Andrew Davidson (guest) 92 78 83, Sam Maltby
(Bournemouth) 82 88 83.
254 Ben Yeomans (Birmingham) 96 78 80.
250 Daniel McAleese (Queen's, Belfast) 89 82 88.

WOMEN
Par 222 (3x74)
223 Rebecca Gibbs (Kingston) 79 70 74.
227 Katie Bradbury (Exeter)    77 75 75.
228 Gabrielle MacDonald (St Andrews) 77 78 73.
230 Elizabeth Stebbings (Liverpool) 82 76 72.
232 Miranda Brain (St Andrews) 81 79 72.
237 Iona Stephen (St Andrews) 82 76 79.
238 Ami Storey (Northumbria) 84 78 76.
243 Emily Cheshire (Leeds Metro) 86 78 79.
244 Emma Newlove (Birmingham) 84 82 78.
245 Charlotte Austwick (York) 86 74 85.
246 Franzisca Benze (St Andrews) 87 79 80.
253 Amy Chambers (St Andrews) 92 78 83.
254 Lauren Collinson (Durham) 85 83 86.
265 Zhanna Tarasko (St Andrews) 91 91 83.