Sport in Short: Bowls

LIVERPOOL VICTORIA INSURANCE WOMEN'S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Royal Leamington Spa): Fours, Second round: Stratford- upon-Avon (L Chedgzoy) bt Downham Market (C Oliver) 26-17; Plymouth Co-op (P Thomas) bt Carlton Conway (B Atherton) 21-20. Third round: Stratford-upon-Avon bt Plymouth Co-op 20-15; Players, Notts (G Hofton) bt Wickford British Legion (D Searle) 23-15; Chichester Priory (W Adams) bt Rugby Thornfield (M Edwards) 22-18; Silver Band, Long Eaton (N Hazzledine) bt Oxford C&C 'B' (M Ellis) 18-16; Oxford C&C 'A' (A Molyneux) bt Park Lincoln (J Edson) 28-10; Sunbury Sports, Middlesex (M Steele) bt West Moors, Dorset (P Hallam) 23-12; Wymondham Dell, Norfolk (S Flood) bt Buckfastleigh (P Manfield) 27-14; Kearsney (A Smith) bt Chesterton, Cambridge (L Jarman) 21-12. Singles, First round: A Anderson (Woodland) bt I Kershaw (Bolton) 21-10; M Ward (County Arts) bt D Williams (Cowes) 21-7; S Molton (Bristol St Andrews) bt A Whatley (Westlecot) 21-5; G Bolt (Rugby Thornfield) bt F Taverner (Brent Lodge) 21-15; J Green (West Moors) bt I Sayers (Felixstowe) 21-7; E Bird (Sherwood) bt M Crossland (Three Mile Cross) 21-7; D Mascot (Hoddesdon Rye Park) bt J Mansfield (Maurice Lee Park) 21-20; D Hall (Glen York) bt M Shaw (Woodland) 21-16; A Williams (Rugby Thornfield) bt M Aitken (Maidenhead) 21-9; J Armstrong (Edenside) bt H Whitlow (March Con) 21-8; J Stern (Harrow) bt S Jones (Bridport) 21-15; J Evans (Baker Perkins) bt Y Bacon (Langford) 21-13; J Newman (St Austell) bt M Heggie (Edenside Carlisle) 21-16; S Springell (Chesham) bt A Leeman (Dunnington, York) 21-10; W Groom (Street) bt B Morley (Silver Band Long Eaton) 21-10; J Stackhouse (Fleet) bt P Whiting (Clockhouse Upminsters) 21-19; E Shorter (County Arts, Norwich) bt E Fogerty (Morpeth) 21-13; P Sutton (Kings Croft, Leicester) bt D Whittingham (Kingsway, Hove)

21-7; L Sandoz (Gilt Edge, Kidderminster) bt V Staples (Sevenoaks) 21-17; L Jarman (Chesterton, Cambs) bt M Court (Westminster Brackley) 21-6; P Mills (Farnham) bt B Proud (Cowes) 21-17; D Searle (Wickford, Essex) bt E Maddox (Ledbury) 21-6; D Sekjer (Maidstone) bt J Balding (Spalding) 21-17; J Blatchford (Topsham) bt M Ashford (Beccles) 21-7; I Jones (Tewkesbury) bt M Hurst (Charlbury) 21-14; J Greenfield (RHP, Nottingham) w/o D Bruce (Broadway, Worcester) scr; J Shears (Leominster) bt J Smith (Bradford on Avon) 21-5; I Molyneux (Oxford C&C) bt B Day (Torbay Country Club) 21-9; J Moores (Alexandra Bath) bt N Greenwood (Whitley & Monkseaton) 21-20; N May (West Cornwall) bt A Erridge (Burnham, Bucks) 21-14; D Wilson (Burton House, Boston) bt I Beake (Chertsey Curfew) 21-9; W Line (Southampton) bt B Noble (Luton) 21-19. Second round: Newman bt Springell 21-16; Street bt Stackhouse 21-12; Shorter bt Sutton 21-13; Sekjer bt Blatchford 21-7; Jones bt Greenfield 21-5; Molyneux bt Shears 21-9; May bt Moores 21-9; Line bt Wilson 21-8; Anderson bt Ward 21-17; Malton bt Bird 21-17; Hall bt Mascot 21-10; Armstrong bt Williams 21-19; Stern bt Evans 21-18; Sandoz bt Jarman 21-18.