Sport in Short: Bowls

NATWEST MIDDLETON CUP (Worthing) Semi-finals: Cumbria bt Somerset 122-108. Rink scores (Cumbria skips first): S Farish 19 J Hobday 26, A Baxter 20 M Prosser 20, J Wills 22 I Middlemast 13, S Airey 14 N Rowe 17, J N Bell 23 A Apsey 19, D Ramsdale 24 P J Branfield 13. Kent bt Norfolk 133-96. Rink scores (Kent skips first): R Price 15 D Ward 18, M Sekjer 30 R Thacker 8, A E Thomson 30 B Taylor 12, G Charlton 31 A Dunton 14, C Hall 12 I Daines 29, G Smith 15 M King 15. Final: Kent bt Cumbria 145-73. Rink scores (Kent skips first): Thomson 20 Ramsdale 11, Sekjer 20 Bell 10, Price 26 Airey 12, Charlton 20 Farish 23, Hall 27 Wills 6, Smith 32 Baxter 11.