Oxfordshire pair Tilly Magill and Jane Binning reached the matchplay rounds of the English Ladies’ Amateur Championship at Broadstone, Dorset.

Magill (Woburn) made the last 16 and Binning (Frilford Heath) the last 32 after coming through the strokeplay qualifying stages.

Binning shot a second round 77 after an opening 80 to qualify in joint 22nd.

Magill’s opening round 74 put her among the leading players, while she carded a 79 on day two to progress comfortably in joint 14th.

Binning had a tough draw in round one where she lost 3&2 to defending champion Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall).

Magill edged out Melissa McMahon (Yeovil) by one hole before losing 2&1 to Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton), the leading qualifier and Curtis Cup player, in round two.

  • OXFORDSHIRE’S girls’ team put in a decent display to draw 3½-3½ with Hampshire at Carswell.

Sophie Stone (Studley Wood) and Nicole du Plessis (Frilford Heath) secured Oxon’s victories – 2&1 against Sarah Bradshaw and 5&3 against Lara Woodgate respectively.

Helen Cross (Kirtlington), Emily Keel (Henley) and Alex Pitts (Chipping Norton) all halved their matches, while Imogen Vessey (Chipping Norton) and Caitlin Shaw (Burford) suffered narrow defeats.

Junior organiser Suzy Smith said: “All the girls played really well, the overall result being decided by the last putt on the 18th. It was a really gripping finish.”

  • FRILFORD Heath trio Maureen Seward, Iona Smith and Jean Lees won the Oxfordshire Ladies’ Stableford Alliance meeting at Rye Hill.

Their score of 82 points put them one ahead of Chipping Norton’s Marian Wotherspoon, Betty Lyall and Sue Bargus.

Frilford’s Una Hunt, Joan Haslam and Jenny Kilpatrick, were third on on 80 points.

Studley Wood’s Elizabeth Wheeldon, Loretta Tona and Gabrielle Maxwell-Jones took fourth on countback from Frilford’s Carol Wadsworth, Judy McCairns and Elizabeth Sadler after both scored 78 points.