Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Superb play but we have to keep the level COACH LEWIS DELIGHTED WITH FIVE TRIES BUT WORK IS NOW SCHEDULED TO CUT OUT THE COSTLY ERRORS

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YORKSHIRE cricket coach Andrew Gale and Town legend Andy Booth have been announced as judges for this year’s Kirklees Community Sports Awards.

The Awards, which are aimed to recognise and reward those who are involved in sport within the Kirklees area, are now accepting nomination­s and further announceme­nts will be made about the judging panel.

Run in conjunctio­n with Huddersfie­ld Town, the awards will take place on Friday, November 17, at the John Smith’s Stadium.

They will recognise sports teams in the area, as well as celebrate the often unseen work done by volunteers and those around the clubs and societies.

Categories include the Kirklees Sports Legend, Sports Personalit­y of The Year, Young Sports Personalit­y, Sports Team of the Year and Sports Official of the Year.

Other categories include Sports Club and Sports Teacher of the Year, an award around Outstandin­g Services to Sport, the Most Improved Team and the Disabled Athlete of the Year.

Andy Booth commented: “I’m honoured and delighted to have been asked to be a part of the judging panel for the Kirklees Community Sports Awards again.

“The awards have been a great success in recent years with a huge amount of deserving nominees and winners.

“The awards are a real celebratio­n of local sport and chance to thank those who make our local clubs.”

The event is partnered in associatio­n with Lowdhams, Ubisoft, the Examiner and Legacy Sport.

Nomination­s forms can be downloaded at http:// htafccomme­rcial.com/event/ kirklees- community-sportsawar­ds-2017/ and should be posted to: Kirklees Community Sports Awards, C/O Huddersfie­ld Town AFC, The John Smith’s Stadium, Stadium Way, Huddersfie­ld, HD1 6PX.

“Basic errors after we had scored proved to be the difference.

“Scoring five tries has to be commended, but our defence obviously must tighten up.

“We will improve our discipline at the breakdown next week and prepare well for Hinckley (at Lockwood Park on Saturday).”

In a high-scoring and entertaini­ng game, Field got off to a perfect start when new signing Will Milner touched down after a neat grubber kick through the home defence, after an excellent Huddersfie­ld scrummage.

Joel Hinchliffe landed the first of his five successful kicks at goal with the conversion.

South were back on terms on 11 minutes when Myles Bean cut swiftly inside from his wing to score under the posts.

Fly half Rick Aley added the extras and his flawless kicking game was to prove to be the deciding factor in the match.

Penalty points for both teams took the score to 13-10 on the half hour before Aley crafted the perfect crossfield kick straight into the arms of Bean who scored his second try.

Huddersfie­ld finished the half strongly with their forwards driving hard and, when centre Tom Owen produced a neat side step after their good work to score centre field, they trailed by only a single point at the interval.

The second half started badly for Field when a try by Will Cave punished the visitors’ failure to take the long kick off at the re-start.

However, they responded well and put the home side under a lot of pressure with their forwards making some serious inroads through South’s defensive line.

Lewis Bradley bounced off three tackles on one such break and when eventually brought down managed to off-load the ball to Nick Sharpe, who scored from close range.

However a penalty and a drop goal,

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