WAYNE DEWS begins the defence of his Wharfside Workout Summer Handicap on Friday evening (start 6.30, scratching 6.45).

Slaithwaite bowler Dews takes on Alan Bamforth, of Linthwaite Hall, at Denby Dale when he will bid for a place in the final on Sunday, August 24.

Skelmanthorpe Windmill (one qualifier)

First round: R Sutton (3) (Linthwaite CBC) v A Carter (3) (Cowcliffe), G Senior (2) (Moldgreen) v P Earle (3) (Waterloo).

Second round: G O’Sullivan (3) (Crosland Moor) v F Griffin (3) (Waterloo), C Walker (5) (Huddersfield RUFC) v P Portelli (5) (Meltham), A Byrnes (5) (Slaithwaite) v A Mailer (scr) (Thongsbridge).

Crosland Moor (two qualifiers)

First round: S Gilroy (2) (Longwood) v G Brook (3) (Netherton), L Sykes (6) (Brockholes) v A Thorpe (7) (Slaithwaite), Mozley (2) (Slaithwaite) v C Gant (3) (Meltham), M Haigh (6) (Newsome) v S Halsall (3) (Cowcliffe), A Rose (4) (Linthwaite CBC) v D Garner (4) (Netherton), R M Spencer (4) (Linthwaite Hall) v J Baillie (5) (Slaithwaite), P A Sykes (4) (Brockholes) v T Holmes (3) (Milnsbridge Lib), A Beaumont (3) (Slaithwaite) v R Thorpe (5) (Longwood).

Denby Dale (two qualifiers)

First round: G Siswick (3) (Crosland Moor) v A Daykin (scr) (Netherton), A Dyson (5) (Slaithwaite) v B Morley (3) (Slaithwaite), W Dews (2) (Slaithwaite) v A Bamforth (3) (Linthwaite Hall), K O’Prey (3) (Skelmanthorpe Windmill) v B Gartside (3) (Golcar Lib), P Winterburn (4) (Netherton) v G McMahon (3) (Linthwaite CBC), A Craven (5) (Skelmanthorpe Central) v S Phelan (5) (Netherton), D Nicholson (6) (Brockholes) v J Martin (3) (Almondbury Lib), B Tinker (5) (Longwood) v I Wrigley (5) (Newsome).

Golcar Lib (one qualifier)

First round: D Oakes (6) (Newsome) v A Wilson (6) (Moldgreen) A E Gray (6) (Cowcliffe) v K Bamforth (3) (Linthwaite Hall).

Second round: A Harrison (6) (Almondbury Lib) A Chapman (6) (Meltham) R Dunford (2) (Moldgreen) M Wood (3) (Lockwood Con) R Craven (5) (Skelmanthorpe Central) G Hallsworth (6) (Moldgreen).

Lockwood Con (one qualifier)

First round: M Pogson (3) (Meltham) v J Metcalfe (2) (Moldgreen), D Fisher (scr) (Moldgreen) v D Jones (3) (Moldgreen).

Second round: T Brook (3) (Crosland Moor) v F Wrathall (3) (Meltham), G Smith (6) (Moldgreen) v I Briggs (2) (Longwood), D Crawley (6) (Newsome) v A Wike (3) (Springwood).

Longwood (one qualifier)

First round: S Metcalfe (3) (Moldgreen) v C Allen (4) (Paddock Con), J Dyson (2) (Brockholes) v R Taylor (3) (Netherton).

Second round: A Cooper (3) (Moldgreen) v S Lord (5) (Skelmanthorpe Windmill), G Beaumont (6) (Newsome) v R Singleton (4) (Golcar Lib), M Hinchliffe (3) (Milnsbridge Lib) v P Fuller (4) (Lindley Lib).

Marsh United (one qualifier)

First round: A Tattersley (3) (Almondbury Lib) v D A Walker (3) (Moldgreen), A Peacock (3) (Milnsbridge BC) v C J Allen (6) (Lindley WMC).

Second round: P Kain (2) (Netherton) v K Brown (4) (Milnsbridge Lib), P Rangeley (3) (Netherton) v T Chatfield (4) (Linthwaite CBC), N Slattery (6) (Newsome) B Starkey (3) (Slaithwaite).

Milnsbridge BC (one qualifier)

First round: J Sheard (4) (Netherton) v H Ellis (4) (Lockwood Con), G L Rogers (5) (Marsh United) v D Allen (4) (Lindley Lib).

Second round: V Atherton (4) (Clayton West) v K Williams (3) (Almondbury Lib), M Bramall (2) (Meltham) v N Jones (3) (Almondbury Lib), G Bellerby (5) (Slaithwaite) v D Radcliffe (4) (Bradley and Colne).

MILNSBRIDGE LIB (one qualifier)

First round: M J Sykes (3) (Cowcliffe) v C Bradshaw (7) (Slaithwaite), D Walker (3) (Moldgreen) v K Hatzer (4) (Slaithwaite).

Second round: A Sandford (5) (Netherton) v A Douglas (4) (Brockholes), R Crowther (2) (Longwood) v T Armitage (5) (Thongsbridge), J Abbott (3) (Meltham) v S Boothroyd (3) (Crosland Moor).

MOLDGREEN (one qualifier)

First round: P Ingleby (2) (Longwood) v D Beeby (3) (Longwood), M Atkinson (3) (Crosland Moor) v G Woodruff (4) (Linthwaite CB).

Second round: P Cooney (4) (Lindley Lib) v J Martin (5) (Netherton), M Rhodes (4) (Brockholes) v M Sykes (3) (Milnsbridge BC), B Gibson (3) (Meltham) v M Hill (3) (Almondbury Lib).

netherton con (one qualifier)

First round: J Hatzer (5) (Slaithwaite) v S Fisher (Scr) (Moldgreen), R Wiltshire (3) (Almondbury Lib) v T Boothroyd (3) (Crosland Moor).

Second round: A Sykes (Scr) (Slaithwaite) v A Battye (4) (Almondbury Lib), R Whitham (3) (Slaithwaite) v A Harper (3) (Lockwood Con), D Pollard (3) (Cowcliffe) v T Allen (3) (Lindley Lib).

outlane (one qualifier)

First round: A Palmer (5) (Slaithwaite) v M Fletcher (3) (Waterloo), A Wadsworth (3) (Marsh U) v M Peacock (3) (Milnsbridge BC).

Second round: J Mosley (6) (Newsome) v R Spencer (4) (Linthwaite Hall), S Kewley (4) (Hemplow) v P Conneely (5) (Cowcliffe), M Higgins (5) (Almondbury Lib) v T Randerson (4) (Hemplow).

THONGSBRIDGE (one qualifier)

First round: A Heaume (3) (Almondbury Lib) v R Dyson (3) (Longwood), J Webster (3) (Springwood) v K Midwood (3) (Netherton)

Second round: M McCluskey (3) (Waterloo) v R Whitwam (3) (Longwood), B Betts (5) (Huddersfield RUFC BC) v E Haigh (3) (Lockwood Con), J Wright (3) (Slaithwaite) v T Hirst (5) (Huddersfield RUFC BC).

waterloo (one qualifier)

Second round: M Greenall (4) (Clayton West) v G Sigsworth (3) (Cowcliffe), T Eckersley (7) (Slaithwaite) v J Atkinson (5) (Slaithwaite), N Small (3) (Golcar Lib) v S Gledhill (5) (Longwood), D Sykes (5) (Netherton) v A Graham (6) (Moldgreen).