Scots need to step up a place to reach

European seniors' top match-play flight 

Scotland need to improve by at least one place over the second 18 holes of the stroke-play qualifying to reach the top flight match-play stages in the European senior men's amateur team championship at Pravets Golf Club, Bulgaria.
Only the eight teams with the best 36-hole aggregates will contest the championship and the Scots are lying ninth at the end of the first stroke-play round.
Eighth-placed France are only one shot ahead of Scotland.
Malcolm Reid was the Scots' top scorer in the first round with a par 72, two ahead of Ian Brotherston and John Fraser with Lindsey Blair, Bob Stewart and David Gardner sharing 58th place on 78 in a field of 124 players.
FIRST-ROUND SCORES

LEADING TEAMS
359 Ireland
363 Italy
367 Spain
368 England
Also:
376 Scotland (9th of 21)
INDIVIDUAL SCORES
Par 72
68 Gianluca Bolla (Ita)
69 Arthur Pierse (Ire), G McGimpsey (Ire)
Selected scores:
71 Ian Attoe (Eng), David Niven (Eng)
72 Malcolm Reid (Sco) (T12)
74 Ian Brotherston (Sco), John Fraser (Sco) (T24)
78 Lindsey Blair (Sco), Bob Stewart (Sco), David Gardner (Sco) (T58)