MONEYGATE SCOTTISH MEN'S AREA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP AT BLAIRGOWRIE

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Defending champions Fife are through to Sunday's last-four match-play stages of the Moneygate Scottish men's area team championship.
Fife qualified in second place with a total of 712, only a shot behind top qualifiers Perth and Kinross.
The other qualifiers are Renfrewshire and Stirlingshire
But North-east, champions two years ago and beaten by Fife in last year's final, missed out on the Sunday action for the third year in a row by the narrowest of margins. They finished fifth of the 16 area teams although they had the same total as Stirlingshire who went through after a countback.
So Sunday morning's semi-finals at Blairgowrie are:
Perth and Kinross (No 1 seeds) versus Stirlingshire (No 4 seeds)
Fife (No 2 seeds) versus Renfrewshire (No 3 seeds).
The major surprise of the stroke-play section was the failure of Lothians, the team who have been Scottish area champions more times than anyone else, to get even close to qualifying. Lothians finished T10.

QUALIFIERS FOR SUNDAY'S MATCH-PLAY
(1 versus 4, 2 versus 3)

1 PERTH AND KINROSS  357 355 712
2 FIFE 365 348 713
3 RENFREWSHIRE 366 358 724
4 STIRLINGSHIRE 366 359 725 (qualified on countback)

FAILED TO QUALIFY
5 NORTH-EAST 361 364 725
T6 LANARKSHIRE 373 361 734
T6 SOUTH 370 364 734
8 AYRSHIRE 372 364 736
9 CLACKMANNANSHIRE 378 362 740
T10 LOTHIANS 371 370 741
T10 DUNBARTONSHIRE 374 367 741
T10 GLASGOW 376 365 741
13 ANGUS 371 373 744
14 NORTH 377 370 747
15 ARGYLL AND BUTE 379 372 751
16 BORDERS 386 384 770

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Hosts Perth and Kinross will be joined by holders Fife, Renfrewshire and Stirlingshire after heading the stroke play qualifying rounds of the Moneygate Scottish Area Team Championship at Blairgowrie.
Led by the home club duo of former Scottish Amateur Champion Glenn Campbell (68 – 70) and Scottish Boys international Bradley Neil (71 – 71), the Perth and Kinross side posted a 10-round aggregate of 712 to book their place in tomorrow’s semi-finals as number one seeds.
Consistent performances from Mark Cameron (71 – 72) and Stuart Graham (74 – 70) bolstered their position, with George Brass’s 73 on the Landsowne and Scott Michie’s 72 on Rosemount also contributing to a fine team effort.
They finished a shot clear of defending champions Fife, who produced an impressive afternoon display to reach the last four in second place of the stroke play qualifying.
Scott Crichton’s best of the day  7-under par 65 on the Rosemount led the way in the morning, before a 67 from James White, and 69s from Brian Soutar and Scott Stewart-Cation put the Fifers in with a great chance of an historic second successive Area Team crown.Renfrewshire, champions three years ago, qualified in third place with an aggregate score of 724, with the experienced Ronnie Clark producing a four-under par tally of 140 to lead their challenge. A superb six-under par 66 by Matt Clark in the afternoon over the Rosemount course was key to their challenge, while Craig Watson’s 71 on the Lansdowne also proved pivotal.
The battle for the fourth and final qualifying berth went right to the wire, with Stirlingshire edging out 2010 champions North East to retain their hopes of a first title in 31 years. Ryan Campbell was Stirlingshire’s star man (72 – 67) with last year’s SGU Order of Merit runner-up Graeme Robertson (69 – 71) also scoring well.
Both sides finished on the 725 mark, but Stirlingshire qualify by the narrowest of margins virtue of the lowest aggregate non-counting scores, 152 ahead of North East’s 153.
Lanarkshire and South tied in sixth place on 734, with last year’s semi-finalists Ayrshire in eighth spot on 736. Clackmannanshire finished ninth with a tally of 736, four clear of the trio of record title holders Lothians, Dumbartonshire and Glasgow