Sporting Digest: Darts

SKOL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (Circus Tavern, Purfleet): Group A: D Priestley (Mexborough) bt G Stoddart (Newcastle) 3-0. Group C: R Harrington (Chelmsford) bt E Bristow (Leek) 3-1; T Kirby (Irl) bt L Butler (US) 3-1. Group E: B Anderson (Swindon) bt D Kelly (US) 3-0. Group G: K Spiolek (Eng) bt K Deller (Eng) 3-1. Group H: R Gardner (Sunbury-on- Thames) bt C Lazarenko (Wellingborough) 3-1.

BRITISH OPEN PAIRS TOURNAMENT (Park Inn Hotel, Earls Court): Men's pairs final: R Chettur and M Landers (Eng) bt S Palfrey (Wal) and M Savvery (Eng) 3-2. Women's pairs final: J Phillips and L Searle (Eng) bt H Ernst (Ger) and F Hoenslaar (Neth) 3-2.