European girls' team championship in Finland

Scotland struggle in 16th place

in a field of 19 countries

Scotland's dismal form at last year's European girls' team championship at Murcar Links continued with a new line-up at Kokkola, Finland today.
At the end of the first day of qualification for the match-play stages, the Under-18 Scots were on 239 - 18 shots behind leaders Ireland in 16th place of the 19 competing countries.
Borders champion Lesley Atkins was tied 23rd with a creditable 76 over the par-72 course.
Rachael Watton (Mortonhall) had an 80 (jt 51st), Sammy Leslie (Westhill) an 83 (jt 63rd) and Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) an 87 (jt 72nd).
In fairness to the players, it has to be said that the weather - rain and strong winds - was all against good play.

SCOREBOARD
Teams
221 Ireland.
222 Spain.
224 Finland.
225 England.
226 Netherlands.
227 Czech Republic.
228 Belgium.
231 Wales, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Germany.
232 France.
234 Switzerland, Norway.
239 Scotland.
243 Italy.
247 Latvia, Green.
Individuals
Par 72
70 Tonje Daffinrud (Nor).
71 Manon De Roey (Bel).
72 Lisa Maguire (Ire), Stephanie Meadow (Ire).
73 Rocio Sanches (Spa), Katie Bradbury (Wal), Johanna Tillstrom (Swe), Karolina Vlckova (Cze).
Selected scores:
75 Alexandra Peters (Eng) (jt 14th).
76 Lesley Atkins (Sco) (jt 23rd).
77 Leona Maguire (Ire), Laura McCarthy (Ire), Kelly Tidy (Eng), Heidi Baek (Eng) (jt 27th).
78 Kelly Miller (Wal) (jt 35th).
80 Rachael Watton (Sco), Natasha Godey (Wal) (jt 51st).
83 Sammy Leslie (Sco) (jt 63rd).
85 Chloe Williams (Wal) (jt 68th).
87 Ailsa Summers (Sco) (jt 72nd).