DUMFRIES-SHIRE RETAIN SOUTH

DIVISION WOMEN'S TITLE

 

Last year's Scottish women's county champions Dumfries-shire retained the South Division title at Peebles today (Monday) and go forward to Glenbervie to defend the national title in September.

Dumfries-shire, who had beaten Borders 5-4 on Saturday and drawn 4.5-4.5 with Galloway on Sunday, needed Borders to beat Galloway in today's final match in the three-cornered contest and that's what Borders did, by a 6.5-2.5 margin after making a clean sweep of the three morning foursomes.

Monday's results:

GALLOWAY 2.5, BORDERS 6.5

  (Galloway players first)
FOURSOMES (0-3)
G Robson  and G Dewar lost to T Mactaggart and  L Wilson 7 and 6
L Scott and K Wright lost to S Cuthbertson and K Inkpen 4 and 2
M Cowan and C Smith lost to J Birdsall and  F Ker 3 and 1

SINGLES (2.5-3.5)
Wright halved with Mactaggart
Robson bt Wilson 1 hole
Cowan beat A Melvin 1 hole
Dewar lost to S Paterson 3 and 2
A Lofts lost to Birdsall 6 and 5
L Scott lost to F Ker 2 holes

FINAL PLACINGS

1 Dumfries-shire 1.5pt

2 Borders 1pt.

3 Galloway 0.5pt