Renfrewshire beat Perth & Kinross 7-2 and Fife overcame Borders by the same score in the opening matches today.
Renfrewshire took a grip on the outcome of their match against P&K by making a 3-0 clean sweep of the foursomes. In the top singles match between two current Scotland internationals, Renfrewshire's Couny Champion Megan Briggs beat Emily Ogilvy by 3 and 2.
Megan's younger sister Eilidh, Donna Jackson and Gillian McGinlay also won to give Renfrewshire 4pt from the singles.
Alex Bushby and Annabel Niven were P&K's only singles winners.
Borders did very well to take the lead-off foursomes from Fife, Judith Anderson and Kirsty Inkpen beating Jocelyn Carthew and Scotland cap Louise Kenney 3 and 2.
But Fife's strength in depth enabled them to recover to establish a 2-1 lead from the foursomes to which they added five wins in the singles through Fiona Hastie, Kenney, Carthew, Susan Jackson and Elaine Moffat.
Liz Campbell got Borders' only singles point.
Results
PERTH & KINROSS 2, RENFREWSHIRE 7
Foursomes - L Walker & E Muirhead lost to E Briggs & M Briggs 1 hole; J Milne & F Ramsay lost to D Jackson & L Stewart 2 and 1; E Ogilvy & A Busbhy lost to G McGinlay & G Kyle 7 and 6 (0-3).
Singles - Ogilvy lost to M Briggs 3 and 2, Bushby bt Kyle 2 and 1, Walker lost to Jackson 3 and 2, Ramsay los to E Briggs 2 holes, A Niven bt S McCorkell 1 hole, Muirhead lost to McGinlay 1 hole (2-4).
FIFE 7, BORDERS 2
Foursomes: J Carthew & L Kenney ost to J Anderson & K Inkpen 3 and 2; F Hastie & E Moffat bt A Dods & S Lees 2 and 1; S Jackson & K Sharp bt L Campbell & I Craigie 2 holes (2-1).
Singles - Hastie bt A Melvin 1 hole, Kenney bt Inkpen 6 and 4, Carthew bt G Oliver 3 and 2, Jackson bt Dods 7 and 5, L Fury lost to Campell 1 hole, Moffat bt Craigie 2 and 1 (5-1).
Weekend fixtures:
Saturday
9.30 & 1.30: Borders v Perth & Kinross.
9.52 & 2.15: Renfrewshire v Fife.
Sunday
9.30 & 1.30 Renfrewshire v Borders.
9.52 & 2.15 Perth & Kinross v Fife.
Thanks go to Colin Farquharson to the report
