CHAMPION Billy Shaw of Milnsbridge Lib launches the defence of his Summer Handicap title tomorrow.

He’s in the field at Rastrick, one of eight venues from which there will be two qualifiers each to go into the final at Linthwaite Hall on Sunday, September 18. Draws will be done at the green (6.30 start and scratch).

Almondbury BC – M Massey (4) (Lindley Lib), A Douglas (3) (Canalside), P Higgins (6) (Lockwood Con), M Wood (2) (Lockwood Con), M Martin (3) (Canalside), M Atkinson (3) (Crosland Moor), M Hollingworth (3) (Canalside), M Bramall (2) (Longwood), R Wiltshire (3) (Netherton), B Holt (3) (Kirkheaton Con), D Jones (3) (Moldgreen), M Pollard (4) (Windmill).

Almondbury Lib – N Haigh (4) (Meltham), P Toon (4) (Waterloo), S Lunn (3) (Waterloo), D Beeby (2) (Longwood), N Small (4) (Lindley Lib), J Rushworth (4) (Lindley Lib), P Ingleby (2) (Lockwood Con), B Morley (3) (Lindley Lib), T Holmes (4) (Newsome), A Rose (4) (Linthwaite CB), K Wenzel (5) (Crosland Moor), C Allen (4) (Lindley Lib).

Longwood – A Heaume (3) (Canalside), M Rushworth (5) (Thorpe Green), C Hey (3) (Crosland Moor), L Sykes (4) (Brockholes), J R Clayton (4) (Newsome), C Valentine (6) (Milnsbridge Lib), D Allen (4) (Lindley Lib), M Armitage (3) (Linthwaite CB), A Bamforth (3) (Linthwaite Hall), J Grundy (5) (Moldgreen), M Hill (3) (Almondbury Lib), A Cooper (3) (Moldgreen).

Milnsbridge BC – G McMahon (3) (Netherton), N Slattery (3) (Longwood), R Mudd (3) (Waterloo), S Haigh (scr) (Netherton), N Jones (3) (Almondbury Lib), S Price (6) (Milnsbridge Lib), J Kaye (4) (Lindley Lib), T Brook (3) (Crosland Moor), G Beaumont (4) (Newsome), L Fallas (5) (Milnsbridge Lib), J Gant (3) (Crosland Moor), C Noble (6) (Lockwood Con).

Newsome – A Hulley (5) (Milnsbridge BC), Kyle Spencer-Halsall (3) (Canalside), B Tinker (4) (Longwood), J Abdy (4) (Rastrick), M Higgins (3) (Lockwood Con), A Oldfield (3) (Cowcliffe), A Daykin (scr) (Netherton), P Kain (2) (Lockwood Con), G Brook (3) (Netherton), J Hockett (5) (Lindley BC), S Gledhill (4) (Longwood), J Dyson (scr) (Brockholes).

Rastrick – A Wike (3) (Crosland Moor), R Dickinson (3) (Longwood), K Brown (4) (Milnsbridge Lib), R Spencer (3) (Linthwaite Hall), E Young (3) (Almondbury BC), R Making (3) (Waterloo), D Sykes (4) (Brockholes), J Hodgson (5) (Shepley), B Shaw (4) (Milnsbridge Lib), I Haigh (4) (Meltham), A Wadsworth (3) (Canalside), P Sykes (4) (Brockholes).

Thorpe Green – S Hirst (scr) (Netherton), K Midwood (3) (Netherton), R Whitwam (3) (Longwood), J Martin (3) (Canalside), D Pollard (3) (Cowcliffe), D Oakes (4) (Newsome), T Atkinson (5) (Moldgreen), K Bamforth (3) (Linthwaite Hall), G O’Sullivan (3) (Crosland Moor), T Fowler (5) (Crosland Moor), T Eckersley (4) (Slaithwaite), R Sutton (3) (Waterloo).

Waterloo – T Boothroyd (3) (Crosland Moor), C Wood (Moldgreen)), L Schofield (1) (Slaithwaite), G Tandy (4) (Longwood), I Briggs (2) (Longwood), C Gant (scr) (Netherton), M Norton (6) (Dalton), W Dews (3) (Netherton), D Peacock (5) (Milnsbridge BC), D Slattery (5) (Lockwood Con), A Tattersley (scr) (Almondbury Lib), K O’Prey (3) (Crosland Moor).