Sport in Short: Bowls

ENGLISH WOMEN'S BOWLING ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Royal Leamington Spa): Two-wood singles, third round: M Higgins (Blackpool) bt M Day (Seahouses, Northumberland) 15-11; J Hellyer (Tonbridge) bt N Hale (Tally Ho, Birmingham) 16-12; P Peachey (Gloucester City) bt E Neal (Pocklington, Yorks) 16-8; K Scott (Popes Mead, Crawley) bt D Reed (Oakley, Basingstoke) 16-11; V Chatfield (Woolwich and Plumstead) bt A Almond (Thame) 16-11; B Moore (Gloucester City) bt G Dimmock (Stony, Stratford) 17-5; P Proud (Cowes) bt L Kemp (Bexhill) 16-10; L Whitehead (Norfolk BC, Norwich) bt M Humberstone (Bedford Women) 18-2. Quarter-finals: Hellyer bt Higgins 15-6; Scott bt Peachy 16-15; Chatfield bt Moore 16-13; Whitehead bt Proud 16-7.