All eyes on Chronicle heats

BOWLS: FOUR players will book places in the finals of the Oldham Evening Chronicle Bowling Handicap tonight (7pm).

Heats will be staged at Crompton, Delph, Nimble Nook and Royton, with each venue producing one qualifier for finals night at North Chadderton Social and Bowling Club on Saturday, July 9.

Contestants at each green will draw their own number.

Practice is from 6.30pm, and play starts at 7pm.

The venues and players are:

CROMPTON

P Guilfoyle 3 (Delph); R Kelly 3 (Hollinwood Cricket); D Griffiths 2, E Worthington 2 (Nimble Nook); J Ashton 3 (North Chadderton); I Gorbutt 2 (Royton Cricket); G Shaw 2 (Springbank); M Holden 2 (Syke).

DELPH

B Sowerby 3 (Church Inn); A Buckley 2, R Nisbet 2, A Smallwood 4 (Nimble Nook); L Schofield 1 (Friezland); D Aspin 4, C Brooks 2 (Royton Cricket); T Gowers 4 (Springbank).

NIMBLE NOOK

R Gaskell 3 (Hollinwood Cricket); P Biram 3 (Milnrow MP); J Mountford 3 (North Chadderton); S Bolton 2, B Cooper 5 (Royton Cricket); N Armstrong 4 (St Pauls); A Bidwell 4 (Springbank); C Bradbury 3 (Springhead Libs); J Lord 2 (Syke).

ROYTON

D Rae 4 (Delph); P Heap 2 (Friezland); J Rudkin 3 (North Chadderton); C Kewley 5, S Schofield 2, B Seville 2, M Gillies 2 (Nimble Nook); L Kewley 4 (Springbank).