Huddersfield start their 2026 campaign with a mountain to climb already. With nine teams in the league each team has a bye and Huddersfield started the 2026 season with a Bye and looking at the table there were some big scores for what we believe...
This was the writers last official duty as President before he stepped back and passed the Presidents chain of office to John Pearman at the Associations AGM on Monday 9 February. The council elected John Pearman as President after Richard Armitage completed his two years...
One of the writers last acts as President of this Association was to present a huge cheque to Judith Ambler of The Kirkwood Hospice. The Association raised £1400 over the course of the 2025 season primarily from running the John Hoyle Trophy as the finale to...
2026 sees the inaugural Inter-District Veterans Merit. All nine district teams in the league will play a knockout tournament of their inter-district squad bowlers playing down to two. The designated date for each district is the day of their bye in their league matches, in Huddersfield's...
The 2026 Hickson Trophy is being hosted by West Riding and is set to return to the round robin format. Leeds, as the current holders, have a bye to the final on 10 July and Huddersfield are in Group 2 with Wakefield, Sheffield and the East...
The 2026 fixtures for the Yorkshire County Veterans Inter-District league have been released and are available on Bowlsnet at https://bowlsnet.uk/YorkshireVets. The season starts on Friday 1 May but due to the fact that there are 9 teams in the league there is a bye on each...
Tomorrow, 26 September, we have the John Hoyle Trophy final starting 1.30 pm and as usual it's at Huddersfield Recreations home of Moldgreen Conservative Club. This competition has quickly become the grand finale to our season, it's now in it's fifth year and each year we...
Thursday 18 September sees the delayed finals day of the Over 70's pairs at Lowerhouses. The competition sponsored by the late David Hollas of Brockholes bowling club is a relatively new competition in our portfolio having started as recently as 2019 and with a two...
Huddersfield's home team topped the 'home' league with 8 wins out of 8 games with table topping points of 164, our closest rival West Riding trailing by 22 points. This was a fantastic achievement by all the players bearing in mind that the team line-up...
The final of the HVBA's flagship individual trophy takes place on Thursday 11 September at Netherton Con starting at 1.30 pm. Originally sponsored by the Huddersfield Examiner it has recently been renamed in memory of Peter and Judith Muff. Peter was very well known in bowling...