Sporting Digest: Bowls

BRITISH ISLES INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Ayr) Semi-finals: Singles: Ireland (C Best) bt Wales (R Rowans) w/o; G Whitelaw (Sco) bt J Wickham (Eng) 21-5. Junior singles: Wales (N Jones) bt England (L Gillett) 21-11; J Mickle (Sco) bt J Nolan (Irl) 21-9. Pairs: Scotland (R and A Grant) bt England (R Robinson and R Brittan) 23-15; Wales (P Howells and G Jones) bt Ireland (R Oliver and I McClure) 24-6. Triples: Ireland (B Moffet, J Henry and I McClure) bt England (P Lewis, M Ireland and D Williams) 26-10; Wales (A McCarley, W Killa and B Kingson) bt Scotland (D Moore, R Wilson and P McCormack) 20-18. Fours: Scotland (W Wells, S Wilson, G Lyall and N Amos) bt Ireland (P Daly, R Stothers, G Mitchell and B Daly) 26-15; England bt Wales

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