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THRILL SEEKERS

GIANTS coach Jon Sharp has handed his players another licence to thrill in tonight’s Super League home clash against Catalans Dragons (7.30). Read

Brothers beaten

HUDDERSFIELD Gaelic football club Brothers Pearse are gearing up for another big test after losing out in their opening match of the season. Read

REVVED UP!

Revved up!

TOP Huddersfield racers Tom Sykes and Tom Tunstall are geared up to take this season’s British Superbike Championship by storm. Read

Terrific run is finale!

Huddersfield III 3 King Cross 3 Read

Records tumble as Mel suffers trial blow

THREE British records were set in successive races as Gregor Tait, James Goddard and Liam Tancock all lowered the national mark in the 200m individual medley at the Olympic swimming trials in Sheffield. Read

Kirkburton’s national joy

KIRKBURTON Karate Club are celebrating four fantastic gold medals. Read

Trophy test for quartet

Trophy test for quartet

THE Concorde Trophy has now reached the semi-final stages, and what a super contest it has been to date, with two Division I teams, one from Division II and the fourth from Division III all making the grade. Read

Champion performances!

Champion performances!

RYAN Flanagan and Abby-Mae Parkinson are Yorkshire county champions. Read

Valley mates cheer on Clancy – in Majorca!

ED CLANCY’S record gold-medal ride in cycling’s world track championships at Manchester was cheered by his former Holme Valley clubmates – in Majorca! Read

Gold for world's fastest first man

FASTEST ‘first man’ in the world Ed Clancy led his Great Britain teammates to a world championship gold medal in a new world record time for the 4000m team pursuit in front of a rapturous home crowd at Manchester Velodrome. Read

Carrington is heroine in victorty

SPEN Valley proved too strong for Holmfirth ‘C’ in Division II of the Huddersfield Badminton League. Read

Brothers ready for throw-in

HUDDERSFIELD team Brothers Pearse start the new Gaelic football season against St Benedict’s in Leeds on Sunday. Read

Adam impresses

STAINLAND Lions’ Adam Breaks battled the elements to finish eighth in the Salford 10k. Read

Just a point to seal slot in play-offs!

Just a point to seal slot in play-offs!

ONE solitary point is all that Huddersfield need to guarantee their play-off spot – pencilled in for Saturday, April 26 against the runners-up from Midlands I. Read

Media men put in the spotlight

THE Patrons meeting featured the media, with David Sykes from the club website and Andrew Crawshaw from what was Home FM and is now Pennine FM. Read

Clancy sets sights on GB track gold!

FORMER Holme Valley Wheeler Ed Clancy heads into tomorrow night’s team pursuit at the World Track Championships in Manchester with high hopes of winning gold again with Great Britain. Read

We’ve won title!

LINTHWAITE D team have scooped their third successive Sunday School Billiards League title having finished six points clear of their own A team. Read

BRIGHT FUTURES

Bright futures

WHAT a difference a year makes, especially when you are still young and improving. Read

Harmison should be at home

MY brief reference to the current Test series brings me on to the remarkable vagaries of a sporting career. Read

Wright result in Longwood event

ATHLETICS Trevor Wright won the Longwood Harriers road race at Farnley Tyas.With a handicap of 13min on a course measuring six miles, he returned a time of 39-32 to take first.This was well down on his 1996 reocrd of 35-31, but enough to pip the rest.Senior race: 1 Trevor Wright 52-53 (finish), 13-00min (handicap), 39-32 (actual time); 2 Karon Mitchell 54-17, scratch, 54-17; 3 Nick Farrar 54-54, 12-30, 42-24; 4 Ian Mitchell 55-01, 12-30, 42-31; 5 James Scholes 58-33, 10-30, 48-03.Under 11 Junior race: 1 Wesley Burton 17-16, 2-30, 14-46 (first boy); 2 Robvert Morris 17-57, 5-00, 12-57; 3 Freya Carter-Williams 18-02, 3-45, 14-17 (first girl); 4 Ama Carter-Williams 18-07, 4-10, 13-57. Read

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