Keighley Merit

A full days bowling led to a final between Ryan Tyler and Alan Downing on Sunday (18th July), with the former emerging as a fairly comfortable winner. Both are pictured here with organiser Mr Harrison. As you can see, Keith was doing his best to contain his excitement. Great result Ryan!

Craven Classic

Last week brought the Final of the Craven Classic, a comp that some bowlers are travelling 100's of miles to play in. This year their travelling was in vain as it was local boy, and our own club member Andy Tate who lifted the silverware and a substantial cheque, beating allcomers from far and wide, including Bob Hitchen in the final. Congrats Andy!

Hebden Bridge Merit

Richard Hargreaves 'struck again' in the Hebden Bridge Merit, winning the cup, and not for the first time, against a strong field at Luddenden Foot. Great green, great organisation and great result for Richard, our prolific competition winner, who's begining to put even 'Father' into the shade in recent times. Not to worry Gus, there's always the Vets!

J H Sutcliffe Cup

Despite a cold morning on the hill, Heptonstall that is, there was a full turn out of 34 eager bowlers last Sunday. A great mixture of 1st, 2nd and 3rd team players took to the green and took advantage of their handicaps, the name of the game today, producing a great days bowling as the sun made an appearance during the afternoon. In a field with it's fair share of "David" and "Goliaths", the "Davids" seemed to be finding a bit of form and some of the "Goliaths" were "slain" after trying to dodge a hail of on target stones. It looked like it was going to be a day for the "Davids", but still finding their line and length were "Goliaths" David Warburton and our own Paul Haigh. After putting up a valliant fight Paul was eventually defeated and ended up runner-up to the worthy winner David Warburton.

A Very Good Weekend For Our Teams

Well, a successful weekend of bowls began for our players when first, on Saturday, in the Yorkshire Cup, they got the better of Pudsey Littlemoor by 24 points to move through to the next round. This victory would be all the sweeter for them, having just received a sound drubbing from Littlemoor only the weekend before, albeit on their own 'league winning' green. Once again, on a neutral green, our players came out on top and would appear to be the better travellers. Next game against Brighouse at Northowram. On Sunday, some of the same players went to Sowerby for the Sunday Morning KO Final and after a couple of hours bowling, on what I suspect would be a slow green, emerged victors by 15 points. Well done to all concerned and may your good form continue throughout the season.