Sporting Digest: Bowls

SANATOGEN EBA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Worthing) Fours, quarter-finals: Workington (S Airey) bt Victoria, Weston-super-Mare (D Alder) 28-6; Shepherds Bush Cricket Club (G A Smyth) bt Summertown, Oxon (G Harrington) 23-15; Reading (M Newman) bt Risby Gate (C Southgate) 22-18; Peterborough Railway Club (R Maplethorpe) bt Banbury Borough (G O Moon) 24-17. Semi-finals: Reading bt Peterborough Railway Club 27-20; Shepherds Bush CC bt Workington 20-16. Final: Reading bt Shepherds Bush 22-13. Triples, preliminary round: Shanklin IOW (K Hamblin) bt Tewkesbury (E Kavanagh) 18-16; City and County of Oxford (H Watts) bt Eynesbury Hants (R Kitts) 21-8; Garston Herts (J Rumball) bt Workington (S Airey) 20-10; Kensey Vale, Cornwall (S Lane) bt Bath Alexandra (S Mayhew) 18-17. First round: Long Eaton Town (R Griffin) bt Cambridge Chesterton (D Edwards) 20-11; Avenue Coventry (S Taylor) bt Lionmede Essex (J Stamper) 15-11.