Colne Valley Merit qualifying

QUALIFYING in the Colne Valley Merit will be held next Wednesday (6.45).

It’s bowl down to one qualifier at each green except Lindley Lib and Marsh Utd, where there will be two qualifiers.

The final is at Golcar Lib on Sunday, September 11 (2.00).

Last year’s winner, Craig Gant of Netherton Con, starts his defence at Slaithwaite CBC against Craig Longbottom (Marsh Lib).

Newsome WMC – P Abbott (Meltham BC) v R Taylor (Hemplow BC), R Dyson (Longwood BC) v P Longbottom (Crosland Moor), I Gledhill (Longwood BC) v R Making (Waterloo BC), N Haigh (Meltham BC) v P Read (Longwood BC).

Linthwaite Hall – M Sykes (Lindley Lib) v G Howe (Longwood BC), I Kinloch (Lindley Lib) v D Peacock (Milnsbridge BC), R Crowther (Longwood BC) v JD Kaye (Lindley Lib), P Toon (Waterloo BC) v G Whitehouse (Marsh Lib).

Thorpe Green – P Hartley (Newsome) v PS Manson (Golcar CAC), T Chatfield (Golcar Lib) v P Ingleby (Lockwood Con), A Tattersley (Almondbury Lib) v L Mosley (Milnsbridge BC), G O’Sullivan (Crosland Moor) v A Byrnes (Milnsbridge Lib).

Milnsbridge Lib – M Armitage (Linthwaite CBC) v P Ramsden (Lockwood Con), A Daykin (Netherton Con) v A Bamforth (Linthwaite Hall), D Oakes (Newsome) v K O’Prey (Crosland Moor), G Fellows (Slaithwaite CBC) v M Higgins (Lockwood Con).

Slaithwaite CBC – C Longbottom (Marsh Lib) v C Gant (Meltham BC), J Ollerenshaw (Milnsbridge BC) v L Fallas (Milnsbridge Lib), G Beaumont (Newsome) v D Hallas (Milnsbridge BC), K Brown (Milnsbridge Lib) v M Wood (Lockwood Con).

Waterloo BC – M Bramall (Longwood BC) v R Craven (Skelmanthorpe Cen), B Walsh (Milnsbridge BC) v A Wike (Crosland Moor), N Slattery (Longwood BC) v A Wadsworth (Canalside Spts), I Briggs Longwood BC) v E Haigh (Lockwood Con).

Linthwaite CBC – S Gledhill (Longwood BC) v T Berry (Hemplow BC), GL Rogers (Marsh Utd) v P Higgins (Lockwood Con), N Bennett (Golcar Lib) v C Hampshaw (Newsome), C Ball (Lockwood Con) v G Sigsworth (Cowcliffe Lib).

Milnsbridge BC – S Pollard (Hemplow BC) v W Holmes (Newsome), D Beeby (Longwood BC) v T Holmes (Newsome), A Deal (Milnsbridge Lib) v M Thornton (Lindley Lib), M Richardson (Lockwood Con) v B Morley (Lindley Lib).

Lindley BC – T Brook (Crosland Moor) v B Tinker (Longwood BC), T Boothroyd (Crosland Moor) v R Walker (Linthwaite CBC), R Dickinson (Longwood BC) v T Giles (Crosland Moor), C Noble (Lockwood Con) v R Mudd (Waterloo BC).

Longwood BC – DA Crawley (Newsome) v R Singleton (Milns Lib), K Midwood (Netherton Con) v J Gant (Crosland Moor), W Dews (Netherton Con) v C Taylor (Linthwaite Hall ), A Peacock (Milns BC) v S Lunn (Waterloo BC).

Crosland Moor – A Crawley Newsome) v A Rose (Linthwaite CBC), S Mallinson (Milns BC) v R Sutton (Waterloo BC), K Sykes (Newsome) v CR Squires (Longwood BC), S Mitchell (Golcar CAC) v R Ellis (Meltham BC).

Meltham No1 – D Fuller (Hemplow BC) v P Hopkinson (Lindley Lib), C Hey (Crosland Moor) v C Lloyd (Netherton Con), R Manning (Lockwood Con) v M Norton (Dalton BC), P Sunderland (Thorpe Green) v A Oldfield Canalside Spts).

Lindley Lib – (2 Qualifiers): T Holmes (Longwood BC) v G McMahon (Linthwaite CBC), M Martin (Canalside Spts) v I Haigh (Meltham BC), A Fawcett (HRUFC BC) v M Fisher (Lockwood Con), R Whitham (Slaithwaite CBC) v R Battye (Bradley & Colne).

Marsh United – (2 Qualifiers): P Kain (Lockwood Con) v D Singleton (Golcar Lib), A Crowther (Longwood BC) v D Pollard (Bradley & Colne), R Whitwam (Longwood BC) v M Atkinson (Crosland Moor), M Peacock (Milns BC) v D Radcliffe (Bradley & Colne).