Sporting Digest: Bowls

ENGLISH MEN'S INDOOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Melton Mowbray): Triples, second round: Worthing (J Dicker) bt Plymouth Civil Service (S Evans) 28-16; Leicester (D Patterson) bt Hatfield (P Skelton) 18-11; Hull and District (N Curtis) bt Desborough (B Hing) 21-18; Teignbridge (J Wickham) bt Rugby Thornfield (G Marchant) 27-12; Sunderland (J Humphrey) bt Paddington (S Halmai) 17-15 (after extra end); Addlethorpe (R Robertson) bt Tilbury (T Clark) 18-12; Oyster, Whitstable (D Holmes) bt Clarrie Dunbar (I Middlemast) 19-14; Nottingham (J Mills) bt Wymondham Dell (B Thacker) 16-12. Quarter-finals: Worthing bt Leicester 19-9; Teignbridge bt Hull & District 21-7; Sunderland bt Addlethorpe 22-11; Nottingham bt Oyster 19-13. Semi-finals: Teignbridge bt Worthing 21-11; Nottingham bt Sunderland 17-16.

ENGLISH WOMEN'S INDOOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Stevenage): Pairs, semi- finals: A Erridge and M Price (Desborough, Maidenhead) bt J Coulson and H Walker (York) 21-20; M Moore and S Curtis (Beccles) bt M Hazell and B King (Solent) 25-14. Final: Desborough bt Beccles 25-8. Champion of Champions singles (last 16): C Duckworth (Towerlands) bt G Lloyd (Malvern) 21-10; G Thomas (West Cornwall) bt B Miller (Nailsea) 21-16; J Bowles (Preston, Brighton) bt E Messer (Cambridge Chesterton) 21-13; S Hazell (Mote Park) bt W Line (Atherley) 21-20; P Prime (The Lawns) bt J Krepel (Swinton) 21-16; E Vigor (Croydon) bt V Beardsley (Beccles) 21-12. Quarter-finals: Rickman bt Oliver 21-8; Thomas bt Duckworth 21-12; Bowles bt Hazel 21-14; Vigor bt Prime 21-9. Semi-finals: Rickman bt Thomas 21-16; Vigor bt Bowles 21-9.