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...
The Half Year General Meeting took place on 13th October and was well attended by club representatives, players, and captains, all gathering for the end-of-season prize giving. This year we sadly lost David Sykes, and in his honour, League President Richard Armitage delivered a heartfelt tribute,...
Bowls eh? It never stops surprising us. And yesterday at Netherton Con, we were treated to one of those truly special days, a final that was everything that’s brilliant about bowls – drama, tension, underdogs, and glorious comebacks. John Hodgson is the 2025 Veterans League Rose...
LONGWOOD bowler Andy Wike took the John Hoyle Trophy after defeating fellow inter-district bowler Graham Sigsworth in the final held at Moldgreen Con. Wike won the contest 21-14 and was heard to say to his opponent that it was a "game of two halves" and that...
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...
LOWERHOUSES duo Graham Hirst and Les Holmes are the Huddersfield Veterans Bowling Association's 2025 Over 70s Pairs champions taking the title on home soil. The quarter-finals saw Hirst and Holmes with a -1 start due to plying on their home green against Cowcliffe duo Derrick Hewitt...
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...