Up for grabs in Kirkheaton Con event

Home Team captain, Graeme Wilson (Lower Hopton), but he faces stiff opposition in the form of former winner Ashley Daykin (Thongsbridge), in what is sure to be a spectacular opening game.

Play gets under way at 7pm with heat and outright betting available to spectators, courtesy of Graham Hirst.

Ashley Daykin (Thongsbridge) 3/1 v Graeme Wilson (Lower Hopton) 2/1; Adam Jones (Woodlands) 12/1 v Robert Hitchen (Lower Hopton) 4/1; Kevi Burns (Ossett Flying Horse) 10/1 v Dean Missere (Dearne Sports) 6/1; Clive Austin (Mirfield ■■The Yorkshire Ladies County team take on Yorkshire Juniors for The Eddie Swaine Trophy on Saturday.

The match is at Almondbury Bowling club and starts at 6pm.

There is a full Huddersfield Junior League programme this Saturday, with Broad Oak playing Almondbury Lib, Golcar Lib taking on Marsh Lib and Brockholes BC playing Almondbury BC.

The matches all start at 10am.

On Sunday, it’s the Mark and Janine Sykes sponsored Huddersfield Junior Team Knockout semi-final and final at Golcar Lib.

Play starts at 10am, dress code applies and Almondbury Lib are the defending champions.

Semi-final draw: Marsh Lib (24) v Golcar Lib (36), Broad Oak BC (54) v Almondbury Lib (scr).

There is a Huddersfield Works League meeting at Bradley and Colne on Monday (8pm start).

The meeting is to draw the Linthwaite CBC-sponsored Works Singles Handicap and the Broad Oak BC-sponsored Works Pairs Handicap preliminary rounds. ■■On Sunday, September 9, Almondbury Bowling Club are holding a fun bowling day.

It involves their own members, a group of ex-Huddersfield rugby league players and other ex-rugby league players and starts at 11am.

Spectators are welcome and the bar and kitchen will be open.

The ex-players are being captained by one of the Almondbury members, Tony Finan, who played for Fartown in the 1960s (he was known as Tiger). ■■The final of the Ladies Pick Your Own Partner will be held at Golcar Lib on Wednesday, September 19 (12.45 start).

J Oakes and J Hayden (Lindley BC ) v M Beaumont and D Firth (Linthwaite Hall); A Myers and P Hampshire (Brockholes) v J Pickard and B Johnstone (Netherton); L Gledhill and L Hirst (New Mill) v L Drury and A Earnshaw (New Mill); H Rangeley and M Nicholson (Meltham) v P Hodgson and A Smith (Meltham). Brighouse Classic sponsored by Damart. Coupe beat Stephen Gilroy (Crossgates) 21-12 to qualify and Fielding beat James Wilcox (Crossgates) 21-20.

Current holder Callum Wraight (Shrewsbury) appears tomorrow.

(6.30pm) Colin Scorah (Denby Grange) v Chris Barton (Wallasey), Callum Wraight (Shrewsbury) v David Halstead (Kirkham), Gareth Nicholson (Halifax) v Andrew Lund (Tarleton), Paul Wilczynski (Bradford) v Duncan Reeves (Huddersfield), Craig Gant (Huddersfield) v Gary Smith (Leeds), Josh Bunting (Wallasey) v Ian Booth (Lower Hopton), Nathan Haigh (Meltham) v David Scott (Silsden), Owen Doyle (Wallasey) v Michael Sweeney (Huddersfield). ■■Two more pairs are through to the Mirfield Old Bank Autumn Double intermediate stages. Martin LLoyd and Paul Latham (Crewe) beat Richard Jackson and Mike Anderson (Thongsbridge) 53-32, while Ben Stapleton and Tom Eccles (Rochdale) beat Dave Watters and John Brown (Preston/Warrington) 56-53.

G Ainley and A Sorsby (Sheffield) v D Bodley and S Bodley (Wolverhampton), N Slattery and D Beeby (Huddersfield) v J Brown and M Allman (Lower Hopton/Littlemoor). Winning pair return Sept 24.

S Gilroy and M Hughes (Crossgates) v J Greenhalgh and L Fallas (Crosland Moor); J Grimston and M Leach (Blackpool) v J Davison and N White (Thongsbridge). Winning pair return Sept 27.

M Kelly-Whalley and D Petcher (Burton) v D Scott and Partner (Silsden); M Booth and K Nixon (Doncaster) v S Leach and N Bithell (Rochdale/Wigan). Winning pair return Sept 27.