Sporting Digest: Bowls

SANATOGEN EBA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Worthing) Pairs, semi-finals: R Robinson and R Brittan (Erdington Court) bt R Johnson and J Wickham (Totnes) 18-17; G Smith and A E Thomson (Blackheath and Greenwich) bt J Birch and T O'Connell (South London) 21-8. Final: Erdington Court bt Blackheath and Greenwich 25-24. Singles, preliminary round: L Miller (March Conservatives) bt B Croad (Ventnor; IOW) 21-9; S Airey (Workington) bt P Dunstan (Cowes Medina) 21-20; P Cooper (Cambridge and County) bt P D Seymour (Chesham) 21-16; R Stanley (Bank House Hotel, Worcester) walked over B King (County Arts, Norwich); R Brittan (Erdington Court) bt P J Branfield (Clevedon) 21-12. First round: E Henry (Oughton Dairy Lane, Durham) bt P Ryman (Hagbourne, Berks) 21-15; M Owen (Hounslow Sports) bt R Hart (Essex County) 21-17; C Wilkins (Burgess Hill) bt C Tingey (Margate) 21-11; J Sussex (Windlesham, Surrey) bt M London (Summerhill, Northumberland) 21-16.