HUDDERSFIELD bowlers have 12 places up for grabs in Monday’s Bank Holiday bonanza Yorkshire Merit final.
Elland CA and BC stage and sponsor the prestigious showpiece and Huddersfield bowlers will stake their claim on Saturday when one player qualifies from each of the following venues (start 2.00, scratching 2.15).
Every player who wins through should phone Geoff Bacon on 01484 349028 immediately as the programmes or the final will be printed on Saturday night.
Skelmanthorpe Windmill
First round: P A Sykes (Brockholes) v R Wiltshire (Almondbury Lib), S Parkin (Almondbury Lib) v Danny Walker (Moldgreen Con), M Hill (Almondbury Lib) v R Hallas (Milnsbridge BC), D Wike (Springwood) v M McCluskey (Waterloo), D Walkden (Longwood) v D Fisher (Moldgreen Con), R Whitwam (Longwood) v M J Sykes (Cowcliffe).
Second round: N Bennett (Golcar Lib) v T Randerson (Hemplow).
Almondbury Lib
First round: T Giles (Crosland Moor) v J Atkinson (Slaithwaite), D Beeby (Longwood) v M Thornton (Lindley Lib), G Illingworth (Slaithwaite) v K Bamforth (Linthwaite Hall), J Ollerenshaw (Golcar Lib) v T Boothroyd (Crosland Moor).
Second round: A Daykin (Netherton Con) v P Kain (Netherton Con), J Shaw (Almondbury BC) v R Mudd (Waterloo).
Crosland Moor Manor
First round: E Young (Almondbury BC) v G Bradford (Albion), A Bamforth (Linthwaite Hall) v L Holmes (Lower Hopton), G Scholes (Almondbury BC) v G Senior (Moldgreen Con), J Patchell (Almondbury Lib) v N White (Thongsbridge).
Second round: A Senior (Almondbury Lib) v F Greenwood (Golcar Lib), J Senior (Thongsbridge) v F Griffin (Waterloo).
Lindley Lib
First round: P Earle (Waterloo) v G Sigsworth (Cowcliffe), R Mozley (Slaithwaite) v J Baillie (Slaithwaite), G Howe (Netherton Con) v R Whitham (Slaithwaite), A Tattersley (Almondbury Lib) v G Fellows (Slaithwaite).
Second round: D Wood (Albion) v A Battye (Almondbury Lib), P Conneely (Cowcliffe) v J Hatzer (Slaithwaite).
Longwood
First round: M Griffiths (Lindley Lib) v R Singleton (Golcar Lib), R Brook (Waterloo) v M Atkinson (Crosland Moor), S Metcalfe (Moldgreen Con) v J Metcalfe (Moldgreen Con), A Dyson (Slaithwaite) v B Morley (Lindley Lib).
Second round: N Kendall (Linthwaite CBC) v P Rangeley (Netherton Con), J Scott (Albion) v T Marren (Netherton Con).
Marsh United
First round: J Webster (Springwood) v A Peacock (Milnsbridge BC), M Sykes (Milnsbridge BC) v M Bramall (Meltham), R Sutton (Linthwaite CBC) v P Atherton (Waterloo), J Bloomer (Albion) v S Gledhill (Longwood).
Second round: G Smith (Moldgreen Con) v D Scott (Lower Hopton), B Gibson (Meltham) v S Gilroy (Longwood).
Milnsbridge BC
First round: D Jones (Moldgreen Con) v M Pogson (Meltham), G Siswick (Crosland Moor) v S Forster (Lindley Lib), M Higgins jnr (Almondbury Lib) v P Thornton (Lockwood Con), B Holroyd (Lindley Lib) v M Conneely (Lockwood Con).
Second round: S Bramall (Meltham) v S Fisher (Moldgreen Con), A Brown (Cowcliffe) v P Sigsworth (Netherton Con).
Milnsbridge Lib
First round: M Martin (Almondbury Lib) v J Lockwood (Waterloo), D Peacock (Milnsbridge BC) v M Fletcher (Waterloo), I Briggs (Longwood) v P Portelli (Meltham), C Lloyd (Netherton Con) v R Spencer (Linthwaite Hall).
Second round: A Carter (Cowcliffe) v L Mosley (Milnsbridge BC), W Barrett (Almondbury Lib) v J D Wright (Slaithwaite).
Moldgreen Con
First round: J Abbott (Meltham) v C Gant (Meltham), A Heaume (Almondbury Lib) v R Crowther (Longwood), W Moseley (Lockwood Con) v M Wood (Lockwood Con), M Pollard (Meltham) v A Byrnes (Slaithwaite).
Second round: T Chatfield (Linthwaite CBC) v P Ramsden (Lockwood Con), J Gant (Crosland Moor) v T Brook (Crosland Moor).
Outlane
First round: K Midwood (Netherton Con) v G Bellerby (Slaithwaite), D Crowther (Almondbury Lib) v G McMahon (Linthwaite CBC), J Bleazard (Waterloo) v R Waller (Almondbury Lib), M Greenhall (Clayton West) v J Sykes (Netherton Con).
Second round: T Holmes (Longwood) v K Hatzer (Slaithwaite), D Reeves (Skelmanthorpe Windmill) v R Taylor (Netherton Con).
Slaithwaite CBC
First round: J Rushworth (Golcar Lib) v J Dyson (Brockholes), D Singleton (Golcar Lib) v T Boothroyd (Crosland Moor), N Firth (Albion) v T Butterfield (Moldgreen Con), I Shaw (Almondbury Lib) v J Hulley (Milnsbridge BC), M Fisher (Lockwood Con) v A Douglas (Brockholes), Dave Walker (Moldgreen Con) v S Halsall (Cowcliffe).
Second round: G Brook (Netherton Con) v A Craven (Skelmanthorpe Central).
Thongsbridge
First round: B Starkey (Slaithwaite) v M Rhodes (Brockholes), R Dickinson (Longwood) v S Hirst (Netherton Con), A Palmer (Slaithwaite) v C Taylor (Linthwaite CBC), W Dews (Slaithwaite) v A Beaumont (Slaithwaite), A Wike (Springwood) v M Hinchliffe (Linthwaite CBC), C Austin (Lower Hopton) v M Cox (Lockwood Con).
Second round: H Ellis (Lockwood Con) v W Higgins (Linthwaite CBC).