The grand finale of our season is the John Hoyle Memorial Trophy and 2023 will the third running of the competition sponsored by the Hoyle family in memory of one of our hardest working Presidents and General Secretary. It is also an HVBA community project...

Round 5 of the Yorkshire Inter-District Veterans League resumed on Friday 28 July after a five week break for the Hickson Trophy. The Huddersfield home team played Leeds at Marsh United whilst Leeds entertained the away team at Rothwell. Huddersfield lost both legs of the match,...

The writer attended the most recent TRY BOWLING event in Greenhead Park on 23 July, the fourth of 5 scheduled dates and the third to be blighted by atrocious weather. [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://www.hvba.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Try-bowling-wet-weather-clip.mp4"][/video] It was looking fairly forlorn but two ladies did attend after seeing a...

The Inter-District league continues this coming Friday, 28 July when one of the key features will be Huddersfield taking on one of the title challengers, Leeds. This is the first year that Leeds have entered the competition since 2019, pre Covid and pre the reduction of...

WEST RIDING What a contrast on finals day compared to the blistering sunny day of the round robins on 7 July. Friday 14 July started with a drizzle at both semi-finals venues, two more testing greens were chosen by the hosts Halifax. Halifax having qualified the previous...

Huddersfield bowed out of this years Hickson Trophy narrowly losing to West Riding. The results of the round robin stage of the tournament played Friday 7 July was: Group 1 played at Hipperholme BC, Aire & Wharfedale 488, Wakefield 419, Castleford 352 Group 2 played at Rastrick...

The Yorkshire Veterans' Crown Green Bowling Competition, proverbially known as the Hickson Trophy after the initial sponsors, kicks off on Friday 7 July. Inter-district teams are on a rota to host the competition and this year the honour falls upon Halifax. Entrants have traditionally been from...

Huddersfield took on Wakefield in the Round 4 match of the Inter-District League on Friday 23 June. The first away team defeat of the season took place at Outwood WMC, report from Alan Sharpe, the away team manager. Just one man for them and one for...

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