Sporting Digest: Bowls

EBF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Skegness) Men: Two-ball singles, first round: J Davison (Gateshead Borough) bt A Cordukes (Ropner Park) 21-17; B Ryles (Blossom Way) bt P Edyvean (Haverhill Town) 21-9; T Robson (New Delaval and Newsham) bt D Dawson (Woolpack) 21-11; J Stephenson (Huntingdon St Peter's) bt N Brown (Coslany Private) 21-19; B Miller (Phoenix) bt F Richardson (Molins) 21-15. Under-25 singles, quarter-final: A Seymour (Hirst Park) bt K Bunn (Wrentham) 21-14. Men's two bowl rinks, quarter-finals: Thornham Magna (D Shepherd) bt Haverhill Ex Serviceman's Club (P Allen) 19-17; Terrington King William (E Clarke) bt Hirst Park, Newcastle (G Emery) 18-14. Men's three bowl rinks, quarter-finals: Heckington Lincolnshire (M Esplen) bt Worthington Simpson (F Mitchell) 21-14; Alderton, Suffolk (C Baker) bt Alexandra Park, Northumberland (J Chapman) 30-14; Blackburn Leisure, Hull (J Carroll) bt Ropner Park, Cleveland (R Walker) 21-18. Women's two bowl rinks, quarter-finals: Wittering (B Warters) bt Walker, Northumberland (I Brown) 20-16; Hemmingford (A Ashmore) bt Norbridge, Suffolk (J Paternoster) 20-15; Ravensworth, Durham (H Parkin) bt Branston, Lincolnshire (J Towle) 18-17; Mixed two bowl rinks quarter-finals: Stone Lodge, Suffolk (T Flegg) bt Peterborough South Ward (D Duffy) 22-15.