Sport in Short: Bowls

LIVERPOOL VICTORIA ENGLISH WOMEN'S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Royal Leamington Spa): Triples, first-round: Port of Bristol (H Champion) bt Wendover (P Nash) 25-8; Oxford City & County (I Molyneux) bt Pennywell, Durham (V Bowman) 20-14; Higham Ferrers (L Blackwell) bt Elmer Park (H Anderson) 18-8; Burton House, Boston (J Wise) bt Currock, Cumbria (D Gowling) 20-12; King's Langley (E Burnell) bt Burradon (O Gascoigne) 16-15; Shepherd's Bush (B Lines) bt Basingstoke (J Drysdale) 19-10; North Kilworth (Z Eisler) bt Didcot (M Weston) 17-16; Broomfield (B Hurst) bt Sidmouth (O Blunden) 24-13; Chesterton, Cambridge (J Tunbridge) bt Tally Ho, Birmingham (W Nicklin) 20-10; Southport (M Marshall) bt Players Nottingham (M Blaze) 14-7; County Arts, Norwich (S Curtis) bt Ashford (J Molins) 19-14; Oxford C & C A (S Rogers) bt Derby West End (J Allen) 17-14; Cheddington (J Dunn) bt Minehead (J Murrell)

20-19; Tiverton Borough (M Robertson) bt Hoddesdon Rye Park (L Stratton) 23-10; Hornsea (M Seabrook) bt Trowbridge Westbourne (J Knight)

19-9; Halesworth (M Ayres) bt Redhill (E Deadman) 18-14; Railway Sports, Lincoln (M Taylor) bt Clevedon Prominade (M Dyer) 20-16; Bromley (J Lyon) bt Diss, Norfolk (L Millbank) 18-17; Greenhill Weymouth (J Searle) bt Hundens Darlington (Harben) 16-14; Chesterton Cambridge (P Wynn) bt Sandown IOW (D Southee) 30-11; Springhead Hull (J Pindar) bt Peterborough (C Anton) 17-14; Workington (C Laybourne) bt Bedford (P Francescon) 20-15; Hewell Worcester (P Boswell) bt Helston (G Thomas) 17-16; Cowes (P Proud) bt Concordia Long Eaton (P Travers) 17-11; Hinckley Sweet Pea (J Meakin) bt Crawley (L Rolfe) 22-12; Wittering, Hunts (J Bateman) bt Wimbledon Park (S Andrews) 22-8; Ipswich (H Bloomfield) bt Willington Quay Northumberland (S Joycey) 20-13; Rugby Thornfield (A Williams) bt Sir Thomas Rich's, Gloucester (S Blackman) 15-13; Castlegreen Hereford (D Herbert) bt Runds Cons, Northants (E Stubbs) 25-7; Carlton Conway Notts (S Keeling) bt Dorchester (F Potter) 22-10; Southborne (J Mundy) bt Hereford (D Higgins) 25-8; Gilt Edge Kidderminster (E O'Hara) bt Chacewater Cornwall (E Adcock) 21-10. Second round: Higham Ferrers Northants bt Bristol 20-13; Burtonhouse Boston bt Kings Langley 20-15; Shepherds Bush bt North Kilworth 19-10; Broomfield bt Chesterton Cambridge 18-16; Players Nottingham bt County Arts Norwich 19-13; Oxford C & C bt Cheddington, Bucks 20-12; Hoddersdon Rye Park bt Hornsey 19-13; Railway Sports Lincoln bt Halesworth 19-5; Greenhill Weymouth bt Bromley 14-9; Chesterton Cambridge bt Springhead Hull 22-19; Hewell bt Workington 24-14; Cowes bt Hinckley Sweet Pea 26-11; Ipswich bt Witering 17-15; Rugby Thornfield bt Castle Green Hereford 15-14; Carlton Conway bt Southbourne 21-10; Oxford C & C bt Gilt Edge Kidderminster 23-12. Pairs final: J Morgan and J Larter (Cambridge Chesterton) bt A de Meza and J Stern (Harrow) 1-18. Two- wood singles final: M Dyer (Clevedon Promenade) bt J Cleet (Durham City) 14-9.