Sporting Digest: Bowls

ENGLISH WOMEN'S INDOOR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS (Stevenage): Singles first round: A McPherson (Avon Valley) bt T Barton (Croydon) 21-14; M Price (Desborough Maidenhead) bt S Bloomfield (Tye Green) 21-20. Quarter-finals: D Sekjer (Mote Park) bt N Edwards (British Cellophane) 21-15; L Jarman (Cambridge Chesterton) bt G Haney (Spalding) 21-10; J Rowlance (North Walsham) bt B Brown (Colchester) 21-18; Price bt McPherson 21-20. Semi-finals: Sekjer bt Jarman 21-14; Roylance bt Price 21-9. Final: Roylance bt Sekjer 21-11. Fours semi-finals: York bt Preston Park Brighton 28-14; Carlisle bt Towerlands 18-17. Final: York bt Carlisle 26-16.