Sporting Digest: Bowls

SANATOGEN ENGLISH ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Worthing): Pairs last 16: A Theobald & D Webb (Gateshead) bt J Bunting & E Hollinrake (Wantage) 22-9; J Fuller & M Hughes (Syston) bt V Rule & D Coopey (Barbourne) 29-8; D & R Morgan (Boscombe Cliff) bt P Peakman & A Wyatt (Marlborough, Ipswich) 25-10; B Buttler & D Caldwell (Stratford-upon-Avon) bt T Perkins & I Middlemast (Bath) 15-14; C Beecher & T Longfield (Selby) bt E Collins & J Evans (Torquay) 20-16; K Wood & M Bennett (Ponteland) bt S Pryor & S Clarke (Ryde Marina) 27-14; H Barker & J Thompson (Silksworth) bt J Weston & P Barker (Didcot) 30-5; A Bull & P Butler (Southbourne) bt B Morley & P Goulding (GPT, Notts) 21-20.

Quarter-finals: Gateshead bt Syston 27- 12; Boscombe Cliff bt Stratford Upon Avon 25-17; Ponteland bt Selby 23-14; Silksworth bt Southbourne 21-12.