A TITLE-GRABBING south lark was sampled by a trio of York College students.

George Robbins, a one-time Archbishops Holgate School pupil, and fellow 17-year-old Adam Newton, ex-Huntington School, combined with 18-year-old Adrian Lount, formerly of Tadcaster Grammar School, to win the British College's North East Region Golf tournament hosted by Scarborough South Cliff Golf Club.

The York trio headed the team event with a total of 215 shots with Robbins also posting the best overall score of 79, while the best gross score of 76 was notched by Lount.

Robbins, who has played golf for York and is currently the junior captain at Fulford GC, first took up the game four years ago.

Delighted by the team's, and his own, success Robbins recalled: "I knew we were holding it together as a team throughout the tournament.

"But I didn't realise I was winning the overall best score until the very last hole. It was a nerve-wracking situation.

"We did really well. York College has never done so well on the golf course,"

Both Robbins and Newton are studying Sport Science as part of their 'A'-level, which Lount is studying an AVCE in Business Studies.

LEADING by example was Kilnwick Percy GC captain Norman Turton.

Besides winning the midweek medal he also won the October medal, the latter success sealed by a nett 67 and the event's lowest gross score. Second was Mark Addinall on 70 with Peter Williamson one shot back in third.

Ben Donkin will meet Matthew Burrows in the final of men's' match-play singles after the former toppled Mark Gatenby in the semi-finals.

That puts Donkin on track for a double. He and Chris Gunby lifted the pairs trophy after beating Graham Martin and Philip Curtis in the final by an emphatic 7 and 6 margin.

Former York men's singles' tennis champion Steve Smith won Fulford GC's annual medal with a fine five-under-par 67.

The extra medal event was won by Alan Bradley on 64. Both he and Smith had their handicaps trimmed.

Malton and Norton players occupied two out of the top three placings in the York and District Alliance event held on home turf.

The winners from the home club were Pip Garside and Joyce Fountain with 72 with third place going to Malton and Norton club-mates Natalie Verow and Joan Blyth with 75.

APOLOGIES to new hole-in-one exponent Michael Aldrich, whose surname we confused last week with the spelling of the former Liverpool and Eire striker John Aldridge.

Still, if Michael now proceeds to get as many aces as the footballer got goals now that would be some story.

Updated: 11:38 Saturday, October 27, 2001