Sporting Digest: Bowls

SANATOGEN EBA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Worthing): Triples, preliminary round: Greenhill Dorset (B Patterson) bt Reading (M Newman) 20-5. First round: Avenue Coventry (S Taylor) bt Lionmede Essex (J Stamper) 15-11; Long Eaton T (R Griffin) bt Cambridge Chesterton (D Edwards) 20-11; Rocker Marine (R Robinson) bt Sandwich (J McMeakin) 22-16; Herts Watford (P Lundy) bt Cambridge Pk, Twickenham (G Little) 20-6; Middlesbrough (H Duff) bt Ross-on-Wye (N Turner) 18-12; Gosforth (D Henley) bt Newport IOW (S Goodchild) 16-10; Kensey Vale, Cornwall (S Lane) bt Bolton (T Armstrong) 18-14; Leicester (R Cooper) bt City and County of Oxford (H Watts) 23-16; City of Exeter (K Phillips) bt Biggleswade St Andrews (D Brown) 17-16; GPT Nottingham (J Mills) bt Cleethorpes (R Meades) 17-13; Marlborough Ipswich (A Wyatt) bt Abington Northampton (R Brown) 16- 15; Pulborough Sussex (J Sims) bt Swindon Westlecot (S Warren) 17-16; Boscombe Cliff (R Morgan) bt Stroud (D Howes) 29-10; Edenside Cumbria (A Little) bt Denham Bucks (P McGuiness) 17-15; South London (J Graham) bt Droitwich Vines Pk (A Burbridge) 17-12; Stanley View Lane Pk (J Leeman) bt Kidderminster Chester Rd (W Reeves) 24-10; Chelmsford (D Gildersleeve) bt Leominster (F Williams) 20-12; Summertown Oxon (G Harrington) bt Garston Herts (J Rumball) 18-13; Ilkeston Ent (J Hopkinson) bt Bourne T (R Needle) 16-14; Shepherds Bush Cricket (P Briscoe) bt Summerhill Northumberland (M McGreevy) 17-16; Langford (J Logsdail) bt Kingston York (N Curtis) 16-15; Brandon Suffolk (G Fox) bt Cavilliers Notts (F Wallis) 20-14; Preston, Brighton (D Williams) bt Shanklin IOW (K Hamblin) 27-11; Marlborough Wilts (R Ford) bt Alexandra Pk Dorset (B Vallis) 25-6; H Wycombe (G Grace) bt Kingsthorpe (R Tansley) 16-13; Honiton (C Mees) bt Stenalees Cornwall (S Rowse) 16-12; Narborough Leicester (B Downes) bt Bletchingley (D Brooks) 20-11; Gosport (D Collins) bt Sevenoaks (D Banfield) 21-12; Perkins Peterborough (M Stratton) bt Newmarket (A Just) 21-5; Wantage (J Stradling) bt Bath (L James) 24-21; Solihill Municipal (A Cooke) bt Wymondham Dell (R Haydon) 19-12; Greenhill bt Cromer (D Ward) 21-20 (after extra end). Second round: Long Eaton bt Avenue 16-14 (after extra end); Greenhill bt Roker Marine 22- 7; Herts Watford bt Middlesbrough 22-13; Gosforth bt Kensey Vale 18-17 (after extra end); City of Exeter bt Leicester 23-10; Marlborough Ipswich bt GPT 20-12; Boscombe Cliff bt Pulborough 23-9; Edenside bt S London 17-10; Stanley bt Chelmsford 18-10; Summertown bt Ilkeston Ent 24-15; Shepherds Bush bt Langford 27-11; Preston bt Brandon 17-12; Marlborough Wilts bt H Wycombe 18- 13; Honiton bt Narborough 21-9; Gosport bt Perkins 22-19; Wantage bt Solihull 19-7.