Sport in Short: Bowls

LIVERPOOL VICTORIA ENGLISH WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIPS (Royal Leamington Spa): Two-wood singles, Preliminary round: B Stephen (Ipswich) bt E Logan (Bounds Green)

16-12; S Page (Baldock) bt I Molyneux (City and County of Oxford) 17-10; M Jameson (Hatfield) bt J Millard (Shanklin) 18-11; B Noble (Luton Town) bt D Lewis (Thatcham) 15-11; J Woodrough (Westlecot) bt F Cowling (Durham City) 14-13; M Green (Page Park) bt M Ashford (Beccles Conservatives) 17-12. First round: J Roylance (North Walsham) bt I Biddle (Bentham) 15-14; L Pilkington (Heaton Hall) bt P Cook (Ross-on-Wye) 14-5; A Halliday (Masonians) bt B Smith (City and County of Oxford) 14-11; D Campbell (Sidcup) bt D Moss (Derby West End)

16-10; M Osbourne (St Neots) bt L Hawkins (Welford) 17-6; M Watson (Keswick) bt I Kershaw (Bolton)17-16; J Vinter (Boston West End) bt A Miller (Benfield) 18-5; B Ade (Worcester) bt B Pothecary (Byfleet) 13-10; J Cleet (Durham City) bt G Acland (Liskeard) 16-5; J Hirst (Russell Park) bt C Hadingham (Rocklands) 14-11; J Evans (Didcot) bt T Green (Blandford) 18-13; J Moore (Brixham) bt W Line (Southampton) 17-11; P Smart (Long Eaton) bt M de la Haye (Aldershot) 16-12; P Cooper (Leamington Spa) bt J Seal (Melksham) 15-8; D Taylor (Harlow) bt A Berry (Chippenham) 15-6; S Rickman (Croydon) bt M Price (Burnham) 16-15; N Poole (Mansfield) bt L Ryan (Gillingham) 15-13; E Fogerty (Morpeth) bt S Jones (Hinckley) 14-9; R Markham (Perrys Links) bt E Talbot (Purnell) 19-14; S Curry (Bucks) bt J Sleep (Kidderminster) 15-10; W Davies (Worthing) bt G Letts (Northants) 16-11; M Dyer (Clevedon) bt B Day (Torbay) 16-10; C Sissons (Ainsty) bt S Parker (Cumbria) 15-14; J Walsh (Leicester) bt A Bishop (Hereford) 18-4; G Daniel (Penryn) bt D Meats (Hants) 15-6; D Loveless (Brighton) bt E Brown (Ventnor) 16-8; B Atherton (Notts) bt G Fitzgerald (Kettering) 14-12; B Keller (York) bt F Hewett (Lyme Regis) 15-11; C Anton (Peterborough) bt P Hough (Dagenham) 15-12; Page bt Stephen 16-4; Noble bt Jameson 14-13; Woodrough bt Green 14-11. Second round: Roylance bt Pilkington 17-7; Campbell bt Halliday 17-12; Osbourne bt Watson 15-7; Woodrough bt Smart 15-14; Taylor bt Cooper 17-10; Poole bt Rickman 16-10; Markham bt Fogerty 15-14; Davies bt Curry 17-12; Dyer bt Sissons 17-12; Daniel bt Walsh 17-13; Atherton bt Loveless 17-9; Keller bt Anton 13-10; Vinter bt Ade 15-8; Cleet bt Hirst 18-7; Moore bt Evans 13-11; Noble bt Page 17-8. Pairs, Second round: J Walters and P White (Shell Corringham) bt C Taylor and V Newson (Peterborough and District) 17-11; L Metcalfe and D Freddi (Swinton) bt T Hopkins and W Smith (Torquay Kings) 29-17. Third round: M Richardson and J Lee (Gloucester City) bt O Polglase and M Matthews (Porthleven) 28-15; L and B Whitehead (St Marks) bt J Cowan and B Alderson (Barrough Park) 19-16; A de la Meza and J Stern (Harrow) bt A Mainwaring and I Molyneux (City of Oxford) 22-14; G Winstone and S Rogers (City of Oxford) bt R Moore and B Collinge (Blackpool) 19-17; M Becks and E Payne (Rushton Town) bt I Hing and M Scrace (Maidenhead Thicket) 23-15; M Maker and J Thompson (Sandwich) bt B Till and R Darling (Milton Park) 22-15; J Morgan and J Larter (Cambridge Chesterton) bt L Gigg and J Newman (St Austell) 21-17; Walters and White bt Metcalfe and Freddi 21-14.