At Morrisons Indoor Bowls Club in the Saturday morning men's triples John Appleton, Ken Coates and skip Derek Redfern scored 15-3 in the first six ends against Jack Grayson, Barry Hodgson and skip Ken Tinkler.

They kept up the pressure throughout winning six ends against two to finish 23-6 in front.

In the same very competitive league Derek Mason, Harry Willsden and Ken Thurlbeck raced into an early 6-1 lead against P Simpson, M Buckley and F Wattam. They remained in front in a low scoring game all the way through until losing two shots at the last end to go down by the minimum by 9-10.

Harry Marshall, Bob Howell and Dave Hogg lost three consecutive twos after leading 5-1 going into the fifth end against the experienced Ken Bousfield, Mort Mooney and Ken Lamb.

To their credit the Hogg trio recovered well scoring a two at the tenth end to level at 8-8. However, they dropped four crucial singles over the last end to miss out on the league points in another low scoring dual.

Arthur McCormick, Norman Rae and skip Eric Ramsdale completed dominated their game to beat R Spence, K Mannion and E Finlay by 30-5. They looked well set for yet another good championship run.

The Friday 4.30pm ladies pairs brought out the best from previous champions Maureen Whitton and skip Audrey Shepherd who lost a four at the very first end, but secured ten good ends including a fine four on the finishing line to win a good game by 21-9 against Jean Stainthorpe and skip June Gibbs in the autumn championship trail.

Olive Harris and Dulcie Harbin lost five shots with just two ends to go against former titleholders Peggy Clark and Ann Simpson. They recovered in some style with two fours near the finishing line to clinch an impressive 18-9 victory.

Louise Abel and Ann Anderson lost only three of their 16 ends to win well by 23-5 against Jean Peacock and Jean O'Toole. On this form they are certainly going to take some beating.

Olive Elliott and Phyllis Harper had a slow start losing 3-3-3-4 in the first four ends. However, they fought their way back well picking up a one, a two and a four going into the 13th end. Olwyn Kitching and Jenny Herries came good again scoring seven on the run in to win by 25-12.

In a high quality autumn Monday afternoon ladies triples league Joan Hamer, Rene Gordon and skip Ann Anderson led by three shots throughout their game against the experienced Ann Milner, Edith Dunn and skip Doris Rewcastle.

Ann picked up a four at the 12th end to finish 17-11 to the good. Doris Collinson, Joyce Stephenson and skip Marjorie Bousfield had the edge throughout their game. They conceded a five at the tenth to Ruth Bell, Barbara Wilson and Jenny Heslop but lost a five on the penultimate end and finishing with a victory of 20-16.

Kitty Robinson, Mary Armstrong and skip Maureen Whitton were level on 8-8 at the halfway stage but pulled well clear over the last five ends scoring nine shots to three carving out a handsome 17-10 victory against Cath Sowerby, Sylvia Richardson and skip Norma Cooper in a well contested Monday triples match.

Other scores included: R Bell, M Nelson, J Heslop 13, V Johnson, N Burchell, V Boyce 11; D Davison, S Freary, M Marshall 6, E White, A Cairns, S Lynch 17.

Gerry Lamb, Alan Woodcock and George Bearpark with 22 points are the new champions of the summer league open pairs.

Bill Elliott and Olive Elliott are the new champions of the summer open pairs and Ray Metcalf finished clear of all 22 bowlers to win the 7pm Tuesday summer pairs.

John Beaston, D Donald, J Mackie and M Mackie lost 11-13 to B Cooper, J Strachan, H Axford and 12-7 to John Appleton and finished up winning the Wednesday 7pm open triples championship.