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England favourites for title after beating Scotland, Wales beat Ireland
England go into the final day of the Ladies’ Home Internationals at Hillside Golf Club, Lancashire as the only team with a 100 per cent record and favourites to win the title for the first time since Dunbar in 2007.
Scotland, the defending champions, suffered their second defeat of the week when they lost 6-3 to England who took a grip on the outcome by making a 3-0 clean sweep of the morning foursomes. England had come from behind to beat Wales 6-3 on the first day.
They carried the momentum they built up in winning five of their singles on Wednesday into the match against the Scots.
Kelly Tidy extended the England lead to 4-0 by beating Jane Turner 5 and 3. Tidy never looked back after winning the first three holes.and had four birdies in all in a quality performance by the 2010 British champion.
Pamela Pretswell put Scotland’s first point of the day on the board by beating Charlotte Wild 3 and 1 in the lead-off singles.
Pretswell was three up after six holes and was four up after 11 holes.
Holly Clyburn made it 5-1 for England with a 5 and 3 win over international debutante Rebecca Wilson. Clyburn won five holes in a row from the 12th
Bronte Law chalked up a sixth point for Scotland by beating Kelsey MacDonald 2 and 1. Youngster Law was two up at the turn and four up after 11. Then MacDonald rallied to win the 12th with a birdie 3, and also the 13th, 14th and 15th to be all square with three to play.
Law conjured up a birdie 2 at the 16th to halt the Scot’s charge and go one up again. She also won the 17th for a 2 and 1 victory.
Alyson McKechin scored a second point for Scotland by beating Charlotte Ellis by one hole. The Scots teenager made a great start by winning the first two holes but she was pulled back to square after four and had to fight her way back into a two-hole lead with a birdie 3 at the 14th. Ellis won the 15th to be one down going into the closing holes.
McKechin held on to her narrow lead by halving the last two holes, pitching dead for a 5 at the last after her first chip went over the green.
Scottish champion Louise Kenney, fielded as the tail-gunner by skipper Fiona Norris, won the last tie, beating young Georgia Hall 2 and 1 after going three up through eight holes.
So the Scots regained some pride by sharing the singles 3-3 after their blank sheet in the foursomes
FOURSOMES
Lauren Taylor and Charley Hull won 6&5 Louise Kenney and Kelsey Macdonald
Charlotte Ellis and Charlotte Wild won 3&2 Pamela Pretswell Alyson Mckechin
Georgia Hall and Bronte Law won 6&5 Megan Briggs and Eilidh Briggs
England 3 Scotland 0
SINGLES
Pamela Pretswell beat Charlotte Wild 3&1
Kelly Tidy beat Jane Turner 5&3
Alyson Mckechin beat Charlotte Ellis 1 UP
Bronte Law beat Kelsey Macdonald 2&1
Holly Clyburn beat Rebecca Wilson 4&3
Louise Kenney beat Georgia Hall 2&1
England 3 Scotland 3
Scotland 3 England 6
Wales 6 Ireland 3
