FOTHERINGHAM, MILNE SHARE NORTH ALLIANCE HONOURS

Former Scotland cap Bryan Fotheringham (Inverness) and Jordan Milne (Elgin) shared the top spot in Saturday's North Scottish Golfers' Alliance competition with one-under-par 70s at Fortrose & Rosemarkie Golf Club.

Milne did well after starting with two bogeys. Birdies at the sixth, 11th, 14th and 17th offset a third bogey at the 12th. He had halves of 37 and 33.

Fotheringham had a similar round with a pair of early bogeys, in his case the second and third before a birdie at the seventh steadied him up on his way to an outward 37. He bogeyed the 13th before completing a hat-trick of birdies over the 14th, 15th and 16th in an inward 33.

LEADING SCRATCH

Par 71

70 J L Milne (Elgin), B R Fotheringham (Inverness).

71 R McKerron (Forres).

72 R A L Cameron (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), I  Findlay (Grantown).

73 J S D Campbell (Grantown), D Stewart (Grantown), B Cruickshank (Garmouth & Kingston).

74 K Thomson (Moray).

75 G Hay (Grantown).

76 M L Macleman (Moray), C Dixon (Moray), W R Duncan (Moray), G S Macdonald (Torvean).

77 A J England (Moray) (4), J Simpson (Forres), S Wilson (Inverness );

78 N McWilliam ( Elgin ), J A Grant (Grantown).

79 R H Stewart (Torvean), S Johnston (Elgin), R Harrower (Boat of Garten).

80 G J Abel (Elgin).

81 A Henry (Inverness), J R Ingram (Boat of Garten), R Mackay (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).

82 V Tilman (Muir of Ord), M Lyall (Torvean), L Stewart (Grantown), W Hutchison (Inverness), W B Johnston (Moray).

83 R G Macpherson (Moray), L Duncan (Elgin), J A G Innes (Elgin), R R Adams (Moray).

84 R Innes (Torvean), F Hutchison (Inverness), B Rennie (Inverness), D. Hector (Elgin).

LEADING HANDICAP

Class 1 - I Findlay (Grantown) (4) 68; R McKerron (Forres) (1) 70; W R Duncan (Moray) (5) 71; C Dixon (Moray) (4) 72; A J England (Moray) (4) 73.

Class 2 - I Turner (Boat of Garten) (14) 72; W B Johnston (Moray) (9), D Ross (Boat of Garten) (14), L Hutchison (Inverness) (4), M Lyall (Torvean (9) 73.