TAIN SISTERS MARY AND ANNE THROUGH TO NORTHERN COUNTIES LAST FOURT NAIRN DUNBAR

Tain sisters Mary Smith and Anne Ryan are through to Sunday's semi-finals of the Northern Counties women's county championship at Nairn Dunbar - but they are in opposite halves of the draw.

Mary will play Cara (Gruber) Thompson (Royal Dornoch) while Ann will play another senior, Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch).

MATCH-PLAY RESULTS

SCRATCH  

QUARTER-FINALS

Mary Smith (Tain) bt Annabelle Brown (Nairn Dunbar) at 19th

Cara Thompson (Royal Dornoch) bt Jenny Milne (Elgin) 4 and 3.

Ann Ryan (Tain) bt Claire Riddell (Royal Dornoch) 3 and 2.

Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) bt Dorothy Lloyd (Royal Dornoch) 7 and 6.

HANDICAP 

 QUARTER-FINALS

Abbie Cruden (Nairn Dunbar) bt Rebecca Riddell (Royal Dornoch) 5 and 4.

Barbara Grant (Forres) bt Wilma Murray (Royal Dornoch) 1hole.

June Nicol (Inverness) bt Susan Proctor (Forres) tbc

Hazel Flynn (Inverness) bt Christina Marshall (Nairn) tbc

SCRATCH QUALIFYING SCORES

Par  75  CSS 77

77 Mary Smith (Tain)

80 Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch)

80 Claire Riddell (Royal Dornoch)

82 Jenny Milne (Elgin)

82 Cara Thompson (Royal Dornoch)

85 Anne Ryan (Tain)

 87 Dorothy Lloyd (Royal Dornoch)

 87 Annabelle Brown (Nairn Dunbar)

HANDICAP QUALIFYING SCORES

72 Abbie Cruden (Nairn Dunbar) (24)

75 Hazel Flynn (Inverness) (19)

77 Susan Proctor (Forres) (22)

79 Wilma Murray (Royal Dornoch) (19)

79 Barbara Grant (Forres) (21)

80 June Nicol (Inverness) (9)

80 Christina Marshall (Nairn) (18)

80 Rebecca Riddell (Royal Dornoch) (25)