Sporting Digest: Bowls

LIVERPOOL VICTORIA ENGLISH WOMEN'S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Royal Leamington Spa): Triples final: W Buckingham, V Haste, J Polley (Great Baddow, Essex) bt N Hall, A Gowshall, C Gowshall (Grimsby Park Avenue, Lincs) 14-10.

Fours, second round: City and County of Oxford (I Molyneux) bt Crediton (C Theedom) 22-12; Rottingdean (J Bowles) bt Wellingborough (A Johnson) 23-18. Third round: City and County of Oxford bt Rottingdean 24-16, Blaby (P Blair) bt Rugby Thornfield (M Edwards) 17-15; Sutton, Surrey (P Wills) bt Leominster (D Hodgson) 24- 15; Broadstone, Dorset (R Peters) bt Ramsey, Hunts (D Grange) 22-14; Barnwall, Gloucs (B Carey) bt Gravesend (M Webster) 22-21; Springhead, Hull (J Pindar) bt Chacewater, Cornwall (P Pascoe) 25-14; Wellingborough (J Abel) bt Hagbourne, Berks (P Tate) 34-15; Loughborough (M McHowat) bt Minehead (J Murrell) 15-13.