Paul Shields (72) top scores for Scots

at European boys' team championship

Scotland were lying joint 11th in a field of 20 countries at the end of the first qualifying round before the match-play stages of the European boys' team championship at De Pan in the Netherlands.
England led with 356, a shot ahead of Sweden with Spain (362) in third place.
Scotland had a first-day total of 369 with a 72 from Paul Shields, a 73 from Chris Robb, 74s from Sandy Bolton and David Law, a 76 from Jack McDonald and a non-counting 81 from Daniel Young.
SCOREBOARD
356 ENGLAND (Jonathan Bell 70, Tom Lewis 70, Max Smith 70, Eddie Pepperwell 73, Adam Carson 73. NC: Chris Lloyd 75).
357 SWEDEN.
362 SPAIN.
363 CZECH REPUBLIC.
366 BELGIUM, GERMANY.
367 FRANCE, DENMARK.
368 IRELAND (Michael Durcan 70, Paul Dunne 70, Dermot McElroy 74, Reeve Whitson 76, Garth McGee 78, Chris Selfridge 78 (NC: one of the 78s), NORWAY.
369 PORTUGAL, NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, SCOTLAND (Paul Shields 72, Chris Robb 73, Sandy Bolton 74, David Law 74, Jack McDonald 76. NC: Daniel Young 81).
371 ITALY.
375 WALES (Rhys Pugh 73, Rhodri Harston 74, Matthew Moseley 75, Mark Parry 76, Christopher Nugent 77. NC Luke Jackson 79).
377 FINLAND.
386 SLOVENIA.
389 POLAND.
388 HUMGARY.