Results of KSGA County Championships at Bearsted Golf club on 30th March.

Leading scores only;

Boys.

1.  Mark Collins      70     Homewood.
2.  Freddie Price    70     Hurstmere.
3.  Matt Cozens      74     Harvey G S
4.  Zac Morgan       75     Swadelands.
     Jake Spearpoint        Brockhill Park.
     Tom Bayliss               Erith.
     George Woollaston   Towers School.
8.  Charlie Parker   78     Eltham Green.
9.  Tom Crowland   79     St Olave's GS.
10. Matthew Gillie  79     Simon Langton G.S.

49 competitors

Girls.

1.  Sophie Daws     77     Marsh Academy.
2.  Sian Evans        79     Rainham Mark G S .
3.  Kirsty Galbraith 80     Gravesend Girls G S
4.  Jerri Sewell      82     Blackfen Girls.
5.  Marnie Barber   82     Ursuline Convent.
6.  Nicole Hamilton   84      Townley G S

A record 11 girls competed.

Handicap winners.

Boys
George Woolaston  69     Towers School.

Girls.
Marnie Barber         73     Ursuline Convent.

Next Championship:

Schools Team Championship at North Foreland on 1st July.

Winners qualify to represent Kent in the English  Schools Team Championship at Came Down G C, Dorchester, Dorset  on Wednesday 7th July.

Results of the Kent Schools' Team Championship at North Foreland on 1st July  
  

1 Simon Langton GS   
243 Liam Sutton 68 (3 under par) Matthew Sutton 80 Matthew Gillie 95

2 Harvey GS               
244 David Arnold 80,George Donoghue 87 Matt Cozens 77

3 Isle of Sheppey Acad.
250 Connor Ryan 83, Daniel Pullen 84, Ben Pullen 81

17 schools took part.

Other individual scores Max Orrin(Chatham House GS) 70.Jake Spearpoint(Brockhill Park) 73, Connor McCauley(Oakwood Park GS) 75.

South of England Schools Championships at maidenhead GC on Wednesday 2nd June.

Boys.

Mark Collins(Homewood) was second with a superb 2 under par total of 138(68.70), beaten by Liam Cox(Middlesex) 71,66. (His 66 was one outside the course record.)
Freddie Price(Hurstmere) 72,78 was 9th and they both qualified for the National Schools' Championships at John O' Gaunt GC on Monday 21st June.

Jake Spearpoint(Brockhill) (82,78)and Michael Puddy(Rochester Maths)(79,NR) had a bad day.
However, the Boys were second in the Boys' Team Championship to Oxfordshire.

The girls did much better-Nicole Hamilton(Townley GS) won with a total of 146, 2 over with a second round of 2 under, off 7 handicap, due to be 5 after a good week at Dartford and Maidenhead..Jerri Sewell(5) was third with 153(76,77), Sophie Daws((3) Marsh Academy) 5th  on 156 (80,76) and Emily Royer(Sutton Valence)(10) 8th with 88,76 her second round being just 4 over,giving her a net 66 and a reduction of handicap from 10-9.

Hamilton,Sewell and Daws all qualified for the National Schools' Championship and won the Girls Team comfortably.

The 5 qualifying for the national Championships is a KSGA record.

Following his win in the Kent Schools' Championships and his second place in the South of England Championship, Mark Collins came 9th in the National Championship at John O' Gaunt,Bedfordshire and will play for the English Schools against the Scottish Schools at Fairhaven Golf Club on 13th September 2010.