Walkers Hounds will face Meltham Victoria Park tomorrow at Lepton Highlanders in the final of the Lockwood Private Hire Trophy.
Hounds were beaten finalists last year, while this is Meltham’s first Cup final (2pm).
In the Kirklees Sunday League, Meltham took the honours against Hounds with a 3-0 success at Broadlands Rec in September; however Hounds gained revenge last month with a 6-3 victory at Golcar.
The squads are:
Meltham Victoria Park: Joseph Baum, Daniel Tindall, Jack Ellis Pownell, Adam lodge, Jordan Pedalty, Dean Sykes, Sam Sykes, Michael Holmes, Darren Green, Michael Dolan, Robert Dolan, Paul Carmody, Sam Farnell, Sam Jepson, Sam Philpot, Nicky Whiteley, Harrison Hoare, Sam Lowther, Robert Yarker, Thomas Kelly. Kit: Yellow.
Walkers Hounds: Matthew Blakely, Craig Burns, Chris Cornelly, Lee Davies, Jack Denby-White, Sam Gill, Josh Greenan, Gary Hirst, Cassidy Israel, Luke Karolczuk, Max Leonard, Dan Stocker, Paul Swallow, Carl Sykes, Connor Sykes, Pierce Walker, Josh Warwick, Connor Woodruff. Kit: Navy blue.
Officials are: C Fosbrook, M Barber, K Pearson.
The second semi-final of the Huddersfield FA Sunday Challenge Cup will also be contested at Grange Moor tomorrow (11am) when holders Wellington Westgate will be hoping to beat Heavy Woollen side Deighton WMC, and thus play Linthwaite in the final on May 8 (11am).
Welly already have triple successes, in as many years, in the West Riding Sunday Trophy and the Get Smart Group Cup.
Officials are: S Rushworth, A Noble, I Parker.
Linthwaite Firsts comfortably defeated Dalton 6-1 at Grange Moor in their Challenge Cup semi-final tie.
It was a fairly even contest in the first 15 minutes, and then Linthwaite started to get on top and earned a penalty when Bradley Riley was felled in the box.
Courtney Allette struck his spot kick well, but Dalton keeper Nat Kelly was equal to it and made a great save.
However, on 25 minutes, Linthwaite’s pressure told and Tom White steered home a well-struck free kick.
A minute later a White square ball found Josh Shields, who stroked the ball into an empty net.
On 30 minutes Rhys Wharam made it 3-0 with a low well-drilled shot from 10 yards.
Then White saw a point-blank shot brilliantly saved by Kelly – the Dalton keeper going on to make many such saves.
Andrew Mellor stood firm in defence to prevent Allette scoring.
Chris Milby also worked tirelessly for Dalton in a defensive midfield role.
In a rare Dalton attack, Ryan Haigh took advantage of a Linthwaite defensive mix up, but his shot just trickled the wrong side of a post.
It was mostly Linthwaite in the second half, with Riley seeing a shot well saved by Kelly.
Jamie Hartley reduced the arrears for Dalton on 50 minutes when he latched onto a rebound, after Luke Haigh had initially had a shot saved.
Five minutes later Linthwaite’s top player Tyrone Gay made it 4-1.
Haigh went close for Dalton with a tight angled drive just past a post, but Linthwaite’s dominance yielded another goal, when the ball bounced kindly for Stevie Richards to score a fifth.
In the last minute Allette rounded off the scoring for Linthwaite with a simple goal.
Dalton’s top player was keeper Kelly, closely followed by Milby.
