SCOTS BOYS LOSE TO ITALY BUT STILL HAVE TITLE CHANCE

It couldn't be tighter going into the last day of the Under-18 boys' international quadrangular contest at Acaya Golf Club, Pugilia in Italy.
All four teams have won one and lost one at the end of two days.
Scotland started brightly by beating France 5 1/2-3 1/2, but lost today to hosts and defending champions Italy 5-4.
So it will all boil down to the results of Saturday's final matches. Scotland must not only beat Sweden, they must beat them by a big enough margin to win a countback against the winners of the other match, France v Italy, unless, of course, France v Italy ends in a draw and Scotland win.

Results so far:

DAY ONE
SCOTLAND 5 1/2, FRANCE 3 1/2
Foursomes (1-2).
Grant Forrest and Liam Johnston lost to Antoine Rozner and Thomas Le Berre 5 and 4.
Jack McDonald and Bradley Neil bt Florian Loutre and Thomas Grava 1 hole.
Daniel Hendry and Ewan Scott lost to Julien Marot and Christian Verrougstraete 1 hole.
Singles (4 1/2-1 1/2)
Forrest b Rozner 3 and 2.
McDonald halved with Le Berre.
Neil bt Loutre 4 and 3.
Johnson halved with Grava.
Hendry halved with Marot.
Scott bt Verrougstraete 3 and 1.

ITALY 3 1/2, SWEDEN 5 1/2
Foursomes (1 1/2-1 1/2)
Edoardo Torrieri and Richard Broadhurst lost to Viktor Edin and Hannes Ronneblad 2 and 1.
Corrado De Stefani and Federico Zucchetti bt Niklas Kallange Nilsson and Hampus Bergman 5 and 3.
Luigi Botta and Giulio Castagnara halved with Adam Strom and Tobias Eden.
Singles (2-4)
De Stefani lost to Ronneblad 5 and 4.
Torrieri bt Viktor Edin 6 and 5.
Broadhurst lost to Bergman 4 and 3.
Botta bt Nilsson 2 and 1.
Zucchdetti lost to Tobias Eden 3 and 1.
Castagnara lost to Strom 3 and 2.

DAY TWO
SCOTLAND 4, ITALY 5
Foursomes (1-2)
Forrest and Johnson lost to Torrieri and Broadhurst 1 hole.
McDonald and Neil lost to De Stefani and Zucchetti 2 holes.
Hendry and Scott bt Botta and Castagnara 2 and 1.
Singles (3-3)
Forrest lost to Botta 1 hole.
McDonald bt Zucchetti 3 and 2.
Johnston halved with Castagnara.
Neil lost to Broadhurst 2 and 1.
Hendry halved with Torrieri.
Scott bt De Stefani 1 hole.

SWEDEN 4, FRANCE 5
Foursomes (1 1/2-1 1/2)
Strom and Bergman lost to Rozner and Le Berre 2 holes.
Nilsson and Ronneblad halved with Loutre and Grava.
Viktor Edin and Tobias Eden lost to Marot and Verrougstraete 8 and 6.
Singles (2 1/2-3 1/2)
Tobias Eden lost to Loutre 1 hole.
Viktor Edin lost to Rozner 6 and 5.
Ronneblad lost to Marot 1 hle
Nilsson bt Verroutstraete 1 hole.
Bergman halved with Le Berre.
Strom bt Grava 4 and 3.

HOW THEY STAND
Scotland won 1, lost 1; Sweden won 1, lost 1; France won 1, lost 1; Italy won 1, lost 1.

FINAL MATCHES
Scotland v Sweden, France v Italy.