Sandwich Bowls Club’s county champions, from left Colin Goldsmith, Gordon Charlton, Jamie Dunn, Shaun McCaughan and Kieran Moss

Following the success for Sandwich Bowls Club in the county finals at Headcorn, the club’s Kent champions travel to Worthing to compete in the All England National Championships.

There are 179 bowling clubs in Kent, but Sandwich managed to win three of the four main county titles.

Opening the club’s assault on national honours will be Kieran Moss, Shaun McCaughan and Jamie Dunn who won their county championship with a 21-14 victory against Steve Savage’s triple from the Met Police.

Dunn’s triple, who have played eight games to reach Worthing, start their campaign against Northamptonshire today (Thursday).

In the pairs, Kent champions Colin Goldsmith and Gordon Charlton start their programme on Monday (August 17), against either Somerset or Wiltshire.

The duo, who have gone 34 games together with only one defeat, clinched their second county title in three years with a 28-12 victory over Mick Homersham and Ken Weyand from St Lawrence.

Completing the line-up for Sandwich at Worthing is McCaughan again, who at 28 became one of the youngest ever winners of the county singles title when he defeated Matt Lonie from Folkestone Park 21-17.

McCaughan plays Yorkshire next Thursday (August 20), in his opening game, while his victory in the county final has placed him in an elite group of bowlers to have won two titles in one year and confirms Sandwich as one of the strongest clubs in Kent with three county titles to match the three won in 2007.

At Headcorn, Sandwich narrowly missed out an unprecedented clean sweep of all four main titles. The four of Marc Mccaughan, Goldsmith, Alan Dunn and Charlton slipped to a five-shot defeat in the semi-finals.