Carmen (14) wins her first Shire match-play tie 7 and 6

Aboyne's 14-year-old Carmen Griffiths, the No 1 seed after topping the Aberdeenshire women's county championship match-play qualifiers at Banchory on Friday, won her first tie, against Lynne Tough (Auchmill), by 7 and 6 today.
Carmen now has a stiff test in the quarter-finals against Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies), winner of the county title a record five times between 1996 and 2012, in the quarter-finals.
Sheena beat Gillian Mackenzie of the host club by 3 and 1.
Former champion Sammy Leslie (Murcar Links) squeezed through to the last eight with a 19th hole win over clubmate Carol Wilson.
RESULTS
SCRATCH
First round
C Griffiths (Aboyne) bt L Tough (Auchmill) 7 and 6.
S Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) bt G Mackenzie (Banchory) 3 and 1.
V Thom (Kemnay) bt F Pennie (Kemnay) 6 and 5.
C Prouse (Hazlehead) bt K Stalker (Cruden Bay) 3 and 1.

F Campbell (McDonald Ellon) bt G Christie (Banchory) 3 and 2.
S Leslie (Murcar Links) bt C Wilson (Murcar Links) at 19th.
R Polson (Kemnay) bt K Guthrie (Inverurie) 3 and 2.
J Lees (Westhill) bt S Macleod (Deeside) 4 and 3.
HANDICAP
Quarter-finals
P Fraser (Peterculter) (14) bt C Eakin (Aboyne) (16) 3 and 1.
V Neish (Murcar Links) (16) bt M Adam (Hazlehead) (10) 6 and 4.
M Finnie (Aberdeen Ladies) (11) bt S Davies (Aboyne) (16) 2 and 1.
E Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies) (6) bt L Mutch (Meldrum House) (26) 2 and 1.