Ireland's twin top golfers 17-year-old Leona and Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) are joint second and fourth going into Sunday's fourth and final round of the Portuguese women's amateur international stroke-play championship at Montado Golf Club, Lisbon.
There was a cut after the third round to the leading 40 which means that all those with tallies of 232 and over will not play Sunday's final round.
All three Scots missed the cut by a big margin
Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) finished T66 with scores of 79, 81 and 82 for 26-over-par 242, the same score as Germany-based Rachel Taylor whose last round of par 72 was in contrast to her earlier high scores of 81 and 89.
Carnoustie Ladies' Ailsa Summers also played well below her potential to finish T86 on 244 with scores of 82, 85 and 77.
THIRD-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 216 (3x72)
210 Roberta Roeller (Germany) 66 74 70.
218 Leona Maguire (Ireland) 72 74 72, Perrine Delacour (France) 70 76 72.
219 Lisa Maguire (Ireland) 73 76 70.
220 Ariane Provot (France) 68 78 74.
221 Anne Hakula (Finland) 68 76 77, Karlijn Zaanen (Netherlands) 71 74 76, Vicki Troeltsch (Germany) 72 78 71.
Selected scores:
230 Gabriella Cowley (England) 72 79 79, Gillian O'Leary (Ireland) 74 76 80 (T33)
MISSED THE CUT (231 or better qualfied for last round)
232 Paula Grant (Ireland) 73 82 77 (T42)]
233 Dulcie Sverdloff (England) 78 76 79 (T44)
234 Jean O'Driscoll (Ireland) 76 78 80, Lucy Simpson (Ireland) 78 77 79 (Jessica Wilcox (England) 73 82 79. Rachel Drummond (England) 73 82 79 (T49).
241 Alyson McKechin (Scotland) 79 81 82 (T66)
242 Rachel Taylor (Scotland) 81 89 72 (T76)
243 Aedin Murphy (Ireland) 77 77 89 (T81)
244 Ailsa Summers (Scotland) 82 85 77 (T86)
