WITH Worcestershire Bowling Association reaching the climax of its season, England international Grant Burgess has secured his 21st county championship final in his 24th year of playing bowls in Worcestershire.

He beat club-mate Steve Parker 21-12 while the Worcester BC pairing of Richard Hall and Rob Dawson defeated Clive Crump and Philip Moule 26-16.

Hall and Dawson made steady progress throughout the game to hold off the late challenge from the Droitwich pairing by the 20th end, to take the Pairs Champion-ship.

Results; triples final:

Chris Garfield Rob Bourne

Marc Stones Richard Moule 18 Grant Burgess Philip Moule 17

Pairs final:

Clive Crump Richard Hall

16 Philip Moule Rob Dawson 26

Fours final:

Chris Garfield Rob MacCormach

Andy Pain Rob McCaughtrie

Marc Stones Edric Vorsterman

22 Grant Burgess Steve Parker 21

After extra end

Champion of champions:

20 Mike Hubbard John Attwood 21

Singles championship:

21 Grant Burgess Steve Parker 12

Worcestershire travelled to Grantham to take on Lincolnshire in the final game of the 2006 Francis Burton Cup campaign.

Worcestershire managed to take 18 points out of the 22 on offer, capably led by Dean Hemming, who beat Paul Dent 39-11.

Mark Rainbow had a 10-shot victory over L Mills, 24-14 and Dawson got the better of A Bird 23-14, to secue Worcestershire 18 league points against Lincoln-shire's four.

Lincolnshire's only rink success's were through Ian Nicholson beating Maurice Pullin 37-4 and Martyn Dolby winning against Pete Davis 27-10. Worcestershire won by six shots.

Worcestershire Lincolnshire

Richard Hall L Meadows

Ian Crow T Hussun

23 Rob Dawson A Bird 14

Paul Kitchen Martin Dent

Martin Hall Russell Dent

Arthur Jackson Simon Dent

34 Dean Hemming Paul Dent 11

Pete Griffin H Putland

R Woodward P Westcott

Pat White S Reeson

4 Maurice Pullin I Nicholson 37

Rob MacCormack Alan Collins

Berrill Everton Bert Walker

Bob Cox Adam Wellington

10 Pete Davis Martyn Dolby 27

Steve Aldren R Monkhouse

Dave Cresswell M Forster

Dennis Hall I Sutton

24 Mark Rainbow L Mills 14

Alan Griffiths Glyn Roberts

Tony Yapp Mat Holland

James Allington James Stanfield

26 Marc Stones Nick Orrey 17

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