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(Reuters) – British supermarket group Morrisons has won a battle with the owners of rival Asda to buy convenience store chain McColl’s out of administration, Sky News reported on Monday. McColls, which runs 1,100 stores and employs 16,000, collapsed into administration, a form of protection from creditors, on Friday, with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) named as administrator. EG Group, the petrol station and food retail business owned by brothers Zuber and Mohsin Issa and private equity group TDR Capital, had been set to seize control of McColls after its lenders rejected a rescue deal from Morr…