It's the Maguire twins again! Nos 1 and

2 seeds for Irish closed championship

It's on the cards that the 14-year-old Maguire twins, Lisa and Leona, will meet in Wednesday's final of the Lancome Irish women's closed championship at Fota Island Golf Resort, near Cork ... just as they did in last year's final.
For the second year in a row, Lisa has won the Leitrim Cup as the leading qualifier. She lost to Leona in last year's final.
In recent weeks, the spotlight has been on Leona who won the French Under-21 title, the Helen Holm Scottish women's open stroke-play at Troon and the Woodenbridge Scratch Cup.
But these highly competitive siblings spark off each other and Lisa raised her game to push Leona into second place by the end of the 36-hole qualifying test over the weekend.
Lisa had a 72 today for a two-under-par total of 146 over the par-74 track. Leona had a 73 for 147. They were the only two players to return 36-hole sub-par totals and as Nos 1 and 2 seeds they automatically go into opposite halves of the match-play draw.
Mary Dowling (New Ross) did extremely well to match Lisa's 72 and shared the honour of producing the Sunday best.
Mary, who had a first-round 76, is third seed on 148 and is seeded to meet Leona in the semi-finals.
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
QUALIFIERS FOR CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH-PLAY
Par 148 (2 x 74)
146 Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) 74 72.
147 Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) 74 73.
148 Mary Dowling (New Ross) 76 72.
153 Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) 77 76, Gillian O'Leary (Cork) 77 76.
159 Sarah Crowe (Tipperary) 77 82.
160 Karen O'Neill (Douglas) 82 78, Catherine Tucker (Limerick) 82 78, Laura McCarthy (Muskerry) 82 78.
161 Patrice Delaney (Birr) 79 82.
162 Maria Dunne (Skerries) 85 77.
163 Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) 83 80, Pat Doran (Donabate) 81 82, Mary Sheehy (Tralee) 80 83.
164 Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion) 87 77, Tara Gribben (Warrenpoint) 85 79, Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor) 84 80.
165 Vicki Power (Corrstown) 89 76, Karen Delaney (Carlow) 87 78.
166 Linda Toomey (Limerick) 86 80, Orla Barry (Galway) 82 84, Lillian Harrington (East Cork) 84 82.
167 Caoimhe Quinn (Dungannon) 88 79.
168 Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) Claire Keating (Charleville) 84, 84 Sue Phillips (Woodbrook) 83, 85
169 Anne McCormack (Roscommon) 90 79.
170 Catherine Kavanagh (Mitchelstown) 88 82, Helen Jones (Strabane) 86 84.
171 Aoife Lowry (Tipperary) 89 82, Lynda Maher (Charleville) 86 85.
173 Carla Reynolds (Seapoint) 89 84, Eileen MacMullen (Donegal) 89 84, Deirdre Cahalan (Nenagh) 87 86, Mary Scully (Tralee) 87 86.
174 Emma Gilmore (Mountbellew) 90 84, Marie Carr (Athenry) 85 89, Mary Crowley (Castletroy) 85 89.

OTHER SCORES:
175 Shauna O'Brien (Clonmel) 91 84, Yvonne Daly Ryan (Tipperary) 91 84, Sinead Keane (The Curragh) 87 88.
177 Violet McBride (Belvoir Park) 95 82.
178 Mary Kavanagh (New Ross) 92 86.
179 Doireann Carney (Galway) 96 83, Olivia Conroy (Co Longford) 92 87.
180 Ruth Maguire (Corrstown) 94 86, Rhona Brennan (Bandon) 92 88, Carmel Kearney (Mallow) 91 89, Suzanne Corcoran (Portumna) 86 94.
181 Ailish Thompson (Douglas) 96 85, Siobhan O'Herlihy (Muskerry) 94 87, Marian Finn (Thurles) 94 87.
182 Julie Coyne (Youghal) 92 90, Adrienne Crowley (Woodbrook) 88 94.
183 Amanda Welch (Cork) 91 92, Mary Geaney (Killarney) 90 93.
185 Mary Mackey (Mallow) 95 90, Muiriosa Connolly (Lahinch) 90 95.
187 Edel Coyne (Youghal) 96 91.
190 Val Shannon (Douglas) 95 95 Noreen Granard (Portarlington) 94 96, Anne O'Rahily (Monkstown) 90 100.
192 Maria Cahill (Abbeyleix) 99 93.
193 Maura Breathnach (Monkstown) 96 97.
195 Olivia O'Meara (Mitchelstown) 98 97.
203 Mary Lowney (Dunmore) 106 97.
209 Kathleen O'Keeffe (Muskerry) 103 106.

CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST-ROUND DRAW
Upper half
08:00 Lisa Maguire v Mary Crowley.
08:09 Karen Delaney v Vicki Power.
08:18 Patrice Delaney v Anne McCormack.
08:27 Catherine Kavanagh v Catherine Tucker.
08:36 Niamh Kitching v Lynda Maher.
08:45 Sarah Helly v Pat Doran.
08:54 Emma O'Driscoll v Caoimhe Quinn.
09:03 Carla Reynolds v Gillian O'Leary.
Lower half
09:12 Mary Dowling v Eileen MacMullen.
09:21 Orla Barry v Tara Gribben.
09:30 Deirdre Smith v Claire Keating.
09:39 Aoife Lowry v Karen O'Neill.
09:48 Laura McCarthy v Helen Jones.
09:57 Sue Phillips v Maria Dunne.
10:06 Victoria Bradshaw v Linda Toomey.
10:15 Emma Gilmore v Leona Maguire.

DRAW FOR ITA WALLACE PLATE
FIRST ROUND
10:24 Shauna O'Brien v Noreen Granard.
10:33 Ailish Thompson v Carmel Kearney.
10:42 Olivia Conroy v Amanda Welch.
10:51 Mary Mackey v Doireann Carney.
11:00 Mary Kavanagh v Muiriosa Connolly.
11:09 Julie Coyne v Ruth Maguire.
11:18 Rhona Brennan v Marian Finn.
11:27 Edel Coyne v Violet McBride.