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Monday 5th September 2005, 12:00AM BST.

BOWLS:Jersey’s bowlers returned from Guernsey with a Le Quesne Trophy inter-insular double on Saturday.

The men won by 11 shots to retain the trophy while the women, who had lost in four of the last five years, enjoyed a winning margin of 16.

SWIMMING: An eight strong team of students from the St Georges Hospital Medical School yesterday narrowly failed to beat the Round Island relay record of 9 hr 41 min set by the Royal Air Force in 1999.

The students returned a time of 9 hr 48 min 27 sec.

SHOOTING: John de la Haye won the A Class and High Gun at the Crabbé Clay Pigeon Club’s 50-bird sporting competition with a score of 43 ex 50.

Wayne Shales took the B Class with 32 ex 50 and Brian Kent the C Class with 24 ex 50 GOLF: Annette Wade won Wheatlands’ Laurent Perrier Ladies Open with 43 Stableford points off her 18 handicap.

Pat Creighton also scored 43 off her 20 handicap with Wade taking it on a countback.

Fiona Hurley was third with 39 off 25.

The men’s competition was won by Ollie Davies with 37 points off 24.

He too won on countback from Peter Roscouet on 37 off 10 and third-placed Jamie Griffiths with 37 off 23.

SHOOTING: The final stage of the Jersey Rifle Association’s Kolapore Trophy was held at Les Landes range yesterday, with Bruce Horwood the winner with 207.28, which included a 55.11 at 1000 yards.

He was just two v-bulls ahead of Cliff Mallett with 207.26.

Graeme Harris (50.7), Wally Langley and Denys Le Vesconte (50.4), were top scorers at 900 yards.

James Marshall won the Junior Kolapore.

MOTOCROSS: Kieran Gregory from the small-wheel 85cc class took the trophy of the day at the Just Glass meeting at Sorel Point yesterday.

Sam Allix was second and Sam Bingle third.

Damian Bowyer and Dale Campbell both had poor days in the adult group and Ryan Gregory took the chequered flag.

Chris Le Marquand notched his first win in the schoolboy 125cc class and followed it with another.

BADMINTON: Elizabeth Cann won the first elite tournament of the season in Sheffield at the weekend, beating Julia Mann 11-4, 10-13, 12-10 in the final.

Mann had beaten Jersey’s Solenn Pasturel 11-6, 11-2 in an earlier round.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL: Vision Express Men beat Pugwash Pirates 2-1 (22-24, 21-15, 21-15) in the final of the Vision Express Beach Volleyball Tournament at the Gunsite yesterday afternoon.

In the women’s final Vision Express Ladies beat Am I Bothered (with Attitude) 2-0 (21-14, 21-19).

GOLF: Andrew Rafferty won the Royal Jersey’s Theatre Cup with a nett 65 off his 11 handicap.

Mike Street was second on 67 off 6 and Neil Wade third with 67 off 15.

BOWLS: Bob Le Sueur and Heather Hughes won the vingtaine competition for the Joyce Stebbings Trophy at Trinity BC on Saturday.

Le Sueur and Hughes, representing the vingtaine of Ville a L’Eveque, beat the vingtaine of Rozel side of Roselle Pallot and Stan Dorey by 16 points to 12 in the final.


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