Sporting Digest: Snooker

BENSON AND HEDGES CHAMPIONSHIP (Edinburgh) Fifth round: R O'Sullivan (Eng) bt T Meo (Eng) 5-0; L Richardson (Eng) bt S Mazrocis (Eng) 5-2; P Lines (Eng) bt R Lawler (Eng) 5-3; B Morgan (Eng) bt S Newbury (Wal) 5-2; D Harold (Eng) bt P Davies (Wal) 5-2; J Lardner (Sco) bt N Mosley (Eng) 5-3; T Chapple (Wal) bt J Read (Eng) 5-4; A Hamilton (Eng) bt A Cairns (Eng) 5-4. Quarter-finals: Harold bt Lines 5-3; O'Sullivan bt Richardson 5-2; Lardner bt Chapple 5-4; Morgan bt Hamilton 5-4.