TOUGH TRIP FOR QUEENSBURY

CRICKET: Parish Cup holders Thornton have been drawn at home to Queensbury in the first round of this year’s competition.

A trip to the Premier Division side promises to be a tough one for Second Division side Queensbury.

The tie of the round will be at Booth where champions Illingworth St Mary’s visit the nine-times cup winners while the only other all top-flight clash is between Triangle and Shelf Northowram HT at Grassy Bottom.

The Crossley Shield holders, Booth, take on a challenging trip to fellow Premier Division team and newly promoted Bradshaw, while two other teams in the top division, Copley and Blackley, will go head to head at The Arches.

First round draws (matches to be played on Sunday, May 10, 1pm) - Briggs Priestley Parish Cup: Blackley v Upper Hopton; Booth v Illingworth St Mary’s; Bridgeholme v Luddendenfoot; Clayton v Bradshaw; Great Horton PC v Augustinians; Greetland v Mytholmroyd; Leymoor v Stones; Low Moor HT v SBCI; Old

Town v Cullingworth; Outlane v Warley;

Oxenhope v Sowerby St Peter’s; Sowerby Bridge v Southowram; Thornton v Queensbury; Triangle v Shelf Northowram HT; Bye - Copley.

Covea Insurance Crossley Shield: Bradshaw v Booth; Copley v Blackley; Illingworth St Mary’s v Triangle; Luddendenfoot v Cullingworth; Mount v Oxenhope; Mytholmroyd v Outlane; Shelf Northowram HT v Great Horton PC; Southowram v Low Moor HT; SBCI v Bridgeholme; Sowerby St Peter’s v Queensbury; Stones v Thornton; Byes - Clayton, Greetland, Old Town, Sowerby Bridge and Warley.