Aspatria and Harrogate visit for cup-ties

Jul 14 2008 by Dougie Thomson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

HUDDERSFIELD will renew acquaintance with Aspatria next season.

And the Lockwood Park men will have three meetings with Harrogate.

North Cumbrian club Aspatria will visit in the first round of the EDF Trophy on Saturday, October 18.

And Huddersfield will host new National III rivals Harrogate in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup on or before April 7.

Aspatria’s last outing at Lockwood Park was during the 2003-04 season, when they were 28-12 winners, pushing Huddersfield further towards the relegation trapdoor.

The following season Huddersfield came straight back up but Aspatria were relegated and still play in North II East.

Huddersfield’s last Yorkshire Cup meeting with Harrogate was a first-round tie at Claro Road in 2001-02, when the home side won 43-18.

The sides meet in league action at Claro Road on September 20 and Lockwood Park on January 10.

EDF TROPHY first round North: Bedford v Westoe, Beverley v Preston, Broadstreet v Bradford & Bingley, Broughton Pk v Scunthorpe, Earlsdon v Caldy, Hereford v Fylde, Hull Ionians v Darlington MP, Longton v Nuneaton, Loughborough Students v Harrogate, Luctonians v Kettering, Macclesfield v Leigh, Morpeth v South Leicester, New Brighton v Hull, Newark v Birkenhead Park, Rugby Lions v Leicester Lions.

Second round: November 22.

Third round: December 13.

Fourth round: January 17.

Fifth round: February 7.

Quarter-finals: February 28.

Semi-finals: March 21.

Final: April 18.

YORKSHIRE CUP preliminary round (on or before April 1): Middlesbrough v Wharfedale.

First round (on or before April 7): Sheffield Tigers v Middlesbrough or Wharfedale, Huddersfield v Harrogate, Beverley v Morley, Hull v Leeds Carnegie, (on or before April 8): Driffield v Doncaster, Halifax v Hull Ionians, Cleckheaton v Rotherham, Pontefract v Bradford & Bingley.

Second round: April 14 and 15.

Semi-finals: April 21 and 22.

Final: April 30.