Sport in Short: Bowls

WOOLWICH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Worthing) Round Nine: Pairs, Section A: Fiji bt Botswana 37-8; Cook Islands bt Guernsey (A Welch and M Nicolle) 18-17; Kenya drew with Japan 19-19; Scotland (R Corsie and A Marshall) bt Australia 23-15; India bt USA 17-9; Wales (R Weale and W Thomas) bt Hong Kong 24-9. Section B: Argentina bt Norfolk Island 23-16; Canada bt Ireland (S Adamson and S Allen) 25-22; Zimbabwe bt Israel 26-17; Papua New Guinea bt Namibia 25-15; Singapore bt Swaziland 26-12; South Africa bt Zambia 23-15. Triples, Section A: Australia bt Fiji 18-9; Namibia bt Botswana 23-10; England (R Cutts, A Thomson and J Bell) bt Swaziland 26-14; Guernsey (M Smith, P Ingrouille, K Mellor) bt Japan 42-3; South Africa bt Hong Kong 20-11; Zimbabwe bt US 20-13. Section B: India bt Argentina 21-16; Canada bt Singapore 23-10; Israel bt Jersey (A Quemard, F Hambly, A Syvret) 16-15; Kenya bt Norfolk Island 17-13; Ireland (V Dallas, J McCloughlin and E Parkinson) bt Papua New Guinea 18-13; Wales (S Rees, J Price, S Wilshire) drew with Zambia 18-18.

Round 10: Pairs, Section A: Fiji bt Australia 22- 16; India bt Guernsey 22-19; Jersey (D Le Marquand and M Coutouly) bt Japan 22-14; Cook Islands bt Kenya 22-19; New Zealand bt Botswana 30-7; Scotland bt Hong Kong 28-21. Section B: South Africa bt Argentina 32-13; England (J Ottaway, T Allcock) bt Namibia 20-19; Israel bt Ireland 20-15; Papua New Guinea bt Zimbabwe 18-17; Swaziland bt Thailand 24-14; Zambia bt Singapore 24-14. Triples, Section A: Swaziland bt Australia 25-11; USA bt Botswana 19-18; Guernsey bt Thailand 25-10; Hong Kong bt New Zealand 20-15; South Africa bt Fiji 28-4; Zimbabwe bt Japan 37-11. Section B: Argentina bt Norfolk Island 15-13; Canada bt Cook Islands 21-11; Ireland bt Jersey 25-11; Singapore bt Kenya 26-14; Scotland (G Robertson, W Wood, A Blair) bt Wales 26-14; Israel bt Zambia 25-12.