Scotland's team of Carly Booth, Kelsey MacDonald, Rebecca Wilson and Sammy Vass went into the European Girls' Championship as title hopefuls - but the home quartet were totally humbled over the two days of stroke-play qualifying at Murcar.

The team led by Curtis Cup player Booth suffered the humiliation of finishing 17th out of the 19 teams and did not even make the second flight for the match-play stage.

With a team total of 40-over-par 472, Scotland finished in the three-team Flight 3 with Iceland and Latvia and will have only one match (on Friday).

Nairn Dunbar's Kelsey MacDonald was the best of the Scots with a respectable 74, but Comrie's Booth, who finished in the top 30 at last week's English Ladies' Open, could only manage 77. Vass contributed an 84, while Wilson slumped to an 86.

England and Germany finished at the top of the list on seven-over-par 439, while Ireland, with 13-year-old twins Leona and Lisa Maguire in the side, were a very creditable sixth.  Wales made it through to Flight 2 in 15th place.

CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT QUALIFIERS
439 ENGLAND 222 217 GERMANY 220 219
442 SWITZERLAND 220 222.
443 CZECH REPUBLIC 221 222, NETHERLANDS 226 217.
444 IRELAND 222 222
446 SWEDEN 220 226.
446 DENMARK 224 223.

FLIGHT 2 QUALIFIERS
451 SPAIN 223 228.
452 FRANCE 222 230, ITALY 225 227.
454 AUSTRIA 224 230.
457 FINLAND 228 229.
458 BELGIUM 226 232.
461 WALES 235 226
464 NORWAY 239 225.

FLIGHT 3 QUALIFIERS
472 SCOTLAND 237 235
478 ICELAND 236 242.
485 LATVIA 253 232.